Baruch Undergraduate Programs in Journalism

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Journalism Program

Journalism/Creative Writing Major

Prerequisites ENG 2500 Perspectives on the News:

The Journalism/Creative Writing major at Baruch combines course work in journalism, literature and creative writing. Students take required journalism and literature courses. They also choose electives from a wide array of offerings including Creative Journalism, Reviewing and Criticism, Feature Article Writing, Film and Television Writing, Fiction Writing, Poetry Workshops, Strategies in Journalistic Writing and Media Ethics and the Law. Students are encouraged to consider careers not only in print and broadcast journalism but also in electronic publishing, book publishing, and new media. Students are invited to work on Dollars and $ense, the national-award-winning Baruch College magazine.

Talented student writers are encouraged to register for special seminars in the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. The Harman Program brings distinguished writers to campus each semester to teach creative writing workshops and to give College-wide readings. Since the program's creation in 1998, poets Yehuda Amichai and Agha Shahid Ali, fiction writers and authors Lorrie Moore, John Edgar Wideman and Paul Auster, playwrights Tony Kushner and Edward Albee and journalists Jane Kramer and William Finnegan have all taught in the Baruch's journalism/creative writing program.

Required Literature Courses (9 cr): Choose one: ENG 3010 Survey of English Literature I ENG 3015 Survey of English Literature II Choose one: ENG 3020 Survey of American Literature I ENG 3025 Survey of American Literature II Choose one: ENG 3030 Contemporary Literature from Asia, Africa, and Latin America ENG 3032 Ethnic Literature 3034 A Survey of African American Literature 3036 Voice from Afar: Post-Colonial Literature		Required Journalism Courses (9 cr): ENG 3050 (2550) Journalistic Writing ENG 5050/51 Media Internship Choose one: ENG 3500 Advanced Reporting and Writing ENG 3100 Copy Editing
Electives Choose three (9 cr):
ENG 2660 Workshop: The Writing of Criticism ENG 3060 Feature Article Writing ENG 3065 Electronic Research Methods and Resources for Writers ENG 3100 Copy Editing ENG 3200 Business & Financial Writing ENG 3210 Television Journalism Basics I ENG 3220 Media Ethics and Law ENG 3280 Documentary Film ENG 3300 Science Journalism ENG 3400 Journalistic Reviewing and Criticism ENG 3500 Advanced Reporting and Writing ENG 3600 Creative Journalism ENG 3610 Workshop: Fiction Writing ENG 3630 Workshop: Playwriting ENG 3640 Workshop: The Elements of Poetry ENG 3650 Workshop: Film Writing ENG 3800 Environmental Reporting ENG 3900 Topics in Journalism *		ENG 4200 Business Press Coverage of Politics and Policy ENG 4730 Journalism and the Literary Imagination ENG 4750 Investigative Reporting ENG 5020 Research Seminar: Problems in Journalism Additional Electives (3 cr): One additional Literature, Creative Writing, or Journalism course is required, selected from the English elective offerings numbered 2200 to 5051 (excluding ENG 2500, 2800, 2850). Note: Interdisciplinary courses, such as FEIT Seminars (IDC 4050), and appropriate film studies courses may be included with prior permission of the department.
* Students may enroll in ENG 3900 (Topics in Journalism) more than once if the topic is different.