Students in the professional program must earn a C- or better grade in all JRNL required courses or they must repeat the course.

After admission to the professional program, all students must take the following courses before graduation:

• JRNL 300 - First Amendment and Journalism Law
• JRNL 400 - Ethics and Trends in News Media
• JRNL 490 - Supervised Internship
• In addition, all students must choose at least five courses from a current list of JRNL electives.
• All students must successfully complete a designated capstone course.

Professional program students must successfully complete an upper-division writing course offered by the School of Journalism.

All students must earn between 37 and 48 credits in JRNL and earn a total of at least 120 credits to graduate.

Please review the course catalog for a list of required courses, electives, special topics and capstone courses.