Sports Media

The proliferation of sports programming in both traditional and new media is triggering an increasing demand for graduates with sports production, sports promotion and sports journalism backgrounds. The School of Journalism and the Radio-Television Department are joining forces to establish specializations in both academic units. The School of Journalism's specialization has two tracks. One prepares students for sports reporting, the other for sports promotion. The reporting track includes new sports courses and the essentials from the news/editorial specialization. The promotions track adds new sports courses to the essentials of the advertising specialization.  The specialization is awaiting official university approval and will not be offered until then.  A sport reporting class offered in the fall of 2011 would count toward the specialization's requirements as well as any other journalism specialization.

Sports Media Reporting and Promotion Curricula

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Total = 33 credit hours

Reporting:

  • Required Journalism Core Courses: JRNL 201 and JRNL 202
  • Editorial Area: JRNL 310, 311, 312
  • Other Course Requirements: RT 321, JRNL 332, JRNL 335 or MCMA 396, JRNL 434, JRNL 481, JRNL 488, plus two Journalism electives.

Promotion:

  • Required Journalism Core Courses: JRNL 201 and 202
  • Copy Writing, Advertising Area: JRNL 301, JRNL 302, JRNL 304, JRNL 310,
  • Other Course Requirements: RT 321, JNRL 335 or MCMA 396, JRNL 407, JRNL 481, JRNL 488, plus two Journalism electives.