Students who are waived out of Journalism Methods still have to take the Law and Ethics of Journalism seminar unless they show that they took a similar class at another university. After the Journalism Methods quarter, New Media students must complete at least one news-based reporting class and its companion seminar during their year at Medill. This requirement gives all students, regardless of their sequence, experience in beat reporting in a major city. New Media students also take the three-unit Web Publishing project during one quarter. The project involves creating, designing, reporting for, writing and eventually launching a commercially viable Web publication.
Every student takes at least three units each quarter.
Not every class is offered every quarter. The first sample demonstrates a program in which the student completes the Washington, D.C., quarter before returning to campus for the Web Publishing project.