No journalism courses are open to freshmen.
Most courses have tight limits on the number of students.
It is important to remember that the core courses generally are taught in both the Fall and Winter Terms, and one is not preferable to the other in terms of completing the major. Students planning to take a semester abroad and to major in a professional sequence should make certain they take J-201 in the Winter of their sophomore year. The journalism major has three sequences, electronic professional, print professional, and communications. They are designed to respond to the widely varied interests among our majors and to assure that those students in the pre-professional sequences have the academic and professional background to make them competitive in the print, broadcast or Internet journalism job markets. In addition, the department is inaugurating a business journalism sequence, designed to prepare students for reporting on business and the economy.