The Program
This program is open to all Brandeis undergraduates, subject to limitations on appropriate class size. Students who complete the requirements of the program receive journalism certificates and notations on their transcripts.
Program Requirements
Students are expected to complete a minimum of six courses from the following options:
- A. Core Courses: Students will be required to take (at least) one course from each of these two areas:
HISTORY/CULTURE- AMST 137b: Journalism in Modern America
- JOUR 120a: The Culture of Journalism
- B. Ethics: Students will be required to complete the following Ethics course:
- JOUR110b: Ethics in Journalism
WRITING
- C. Students will be required to complete one of the three following options:
- Internship
Students serve in an outside internship while concurrently taking --JOUR 89a: Contemporary Media:
Internship and Analysis. - Senior Writing Project
Students write a one-semester long paper as an independent study in the
Journalism Program--JOUR 98a or JOUR 98b. - or an Honors Thesis. Students write an honors thesis in their department of concentration
that is on a topic relating to the media. -- JOUR 99d.
- Internship
- D. Students will be required to take two electives from the following five special areas of study,
no more than two in any one department:
Students are strongly encouraged to choose their electives from different groups.
Not every course will be offered every year.
Senior Writing Project/Honors Thesis/Internship
Students are required to do one of the three following options:
- write a research paper for a one-semestersenior independent study in the Journalism Program
- write an honors thesis in the student's department of concentration on a topic relating to the media, or
- serve in an outside internship while taking the related internship course in the Journalism Program.
Honors Theses
Senior theses written in conjunction with the student's area of concentration are a way in which students can explore an area of journalism as it relates to the students's diciplinary interests and professional plans. Some examples of successful journalism theses have been :
- "Trafficking with Images: Journalism, History and the Image of Columbia in the United States", written in conjunction with the concentration in the History of Ideas
- "The Right to Privacy and the Freedom of the Press: A Balancing Act", written in conjunction with the Politics Department
- "Media Crisis: Health Care Coverage in the 1960s and the 1990s", written in conjunction with the American Studies Department
Internships
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