Degree Requirements
Our students complete 10 courses for a total of 30 credit hours*, divided into three parts, including a three-credit-hour media workplace practicum, which is a highlight of the program.
M.M.C. Required Core Courses (12 credit hours):
- Research Methods in Mass Communication
- Media Law
- Issues in Mass Communication Management
- Practicum in Mass Communications Management (working with an organization or agency in their chosen field.)
Multimedia Journalism Concentration Core Courses (9 credit hours)
- Freedom, Responsibility, and Ethics of the Mass Media or Media, Ethics, and Social Change
- Data Journalism
- Foundations of Multimedia Journalism
Recommended electives (9 credit hours) such as:
- Public/Civic Journalism
- Reporting Public Affairs
- Broadcast Announcing
- Advanced Special Topics such as longform sportswriting, and photojournalism in society
- Editorial Interpretation, Policy, and Management
- Contemporary Issues in Mass Communication
- History of Mass Media
- Literary Aspects of Journalism and Mass Communication
- New Technologies and the Mass Media
- Educational Broadcasting
- Media Economics
- Topics in Mass Communication such as contemporary issues in sports media.
Other courses as approved
*At least 15 credit hours must be 700-level or above courses.