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Journalism and English, BA

2021-2022 Edition

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The School of Journalism and the English Department offer an interdisciplinary combined major in Journalism and English. Broadly speaking, students in the Combined Major in Journalism and English at Northeastern integrate the study of journalism with the study of language, literature and writing. 

Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.

University-Wide Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the University-Wide Requirements.

BA Language Requirements

All BA students are required to complete the BA language requirements.

NUpath Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.

NUpath requirements Creative Expression/Innovation (EI), Societies and Institutions (SI), and Difference and Diversity (DD) are met through the major course requirements.

NUpath requirements Interpreting Culture (IC), Analyzing and Using Data (AD), and Ethical Reasoning (ER) may be met through electives in the major.

NUpath requirements Natural and Designed World (ND) and Formal and Quantitative Reasoning (FQ) must be met through general electives.

Journalism Major Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
Journalism Introductory Course
JRNL 1150Understanding Today’s News4
Journalism Foundations
Must receive a C or better in the following:
JRNL 1101
and JRNL 1102
Journalism 1: Fundamentals of Reporting
and Journalist’s Toolbox
5
JRNL 2201Journalism 2: Intermediate Reporting4
JRNL 2301Visual Storytelling in Journalism4
JRNL 3610Digital Storytelling and Social Media4
Law and Ethics
JRNL 3550The First Amendment and the Media4
or JRNL 4650 Ethics and Issues in Journalism
Journalism Electives
Take three JRNL courses12

English Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
English Course-Level Requirement
In addition to the capstone, two of the courses chosen from the lists below must be numbered 3000–4999.
Introduction to College
ENGL 1000English at Northeastern1
Foundational Courses
ENGL 1400Introduction to Literary Studies4
ENGL 1160Introduction to Rhetoric4
or ENGL 1410 Introduction to Research on Writing
Diversity
Complete one of the following courses. This course may also be used to fulfill an additional English requirement below:4
ENGL 2150
Literature and Digital Diversity
ENGL 2296
Early African-American Literature
ENGL 2451
Postcolonial Women Writers
ENGL 2455
American Women Writers
ENGL 2760
Writing in Global Contexts
ENGL 3663
The African American Novel
ENGL 3678
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
ENGL 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
or JWSS 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
Pre-Nineteenth-Century Literature
Complete one of the following:4
ENGL 1600
Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 1700
Global Literatures 1
ENGL 2296
Early African-American Literature
ENGL 3101
Early Literatures
ENGL 3120
17th- and 18th-Century Literatures
ENGL 3678
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
or JWSS 3678
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century Literature
Complete one of the following:4
ENGL 2330
The American Renaissance
ENGL 2301
The Graphic Novel
ENGL 2440
The Modern Bestseller
ENGL 2600
Irish Literary Culture (Abroad)
ENGL 2610
Contemporary Israeli Literature and Art (Abroad)
ENGL 3140
19th-Century Literatures
ENGL 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
or JWSS 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
ENGL 3720
19th-Century Major Figure
ENGL 3730
20th- and 21st-Century Major Figure
Theories and Methods
Complete one of the following: 4
ENGL 1140
Grammar: The Architecture of English
ENGL 1160
Introduction to Rhetoric
ENGL 1410
Introduction to Research on Writing
ENGL 2150
Literature and Digital Diversity
ENGL 3325
Rhetoric of Law
ENGL 3340
Technologies of Text
ENGL 3370
Writing Cultures
ENGL 3381
The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
ENGL 3400
Opening the Archive
ENGL 3700
Narrative Medicine
ENGL 4410
Research in Rhetoric and Writing
LING 1150
Introduction to Language and Linguistics
LING 2350
Linguistic Analysis
LING 3450
Syntax
LING 3452
Semantics
LING 3454
History of English
LING 3456
Language and Gender
LING 3458
Topics in Linguistics
Comparative Literature
Complete one of the following:4
ENGL 1450
Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
ENGL 1502
American Literature to 1865
ENGL 2150
Literature and Digital Diversity
ENGL 2420
Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 2430
Contemporary Fiction
ENGL 2451
Postcolonial Women Writers
ENGL 2455
American Women Writers
ENGL 2510
Horror Fiction
ENGL 2520
Science Fiction
ENGL 2600
Irish Literary Culture (Abroad)
ENGL 2620
What Is Nature?
ENGL 2690
Boston in Literature
ENGL 3487
Film and Text (Abroad)
ENGL 3663
The African American Novel
Writing
Complete one of the following:4
ENGL 2700
Creative Writing
ENGL 2710
Style and Editing
ENGL 2740
Writing and Community Engagement
ENGL 2760
Writing in Global Contexts
ENGL 2770
Writing to Heal
ENGL 2780
Visual Writing: Writing Visuals
ENGL 2850
Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice
ENGL 3375
Writing Boston
ENGL 3376
Creative Nonfiction
ENGL 3377
Poetry Workshop
ENGL 3378
Fiction Workshop
ENGL 3380
Writing Seminar
ENGL 3382
Publishing in the 21st Century
ENGL 3384
The Writer’s Marketplace
Capstone
ENGL 4710Capstone Seminar4
or ENGL 4720 Capstone Project
English Electives
Complete two additional ENGL electives.8

Integrative Requirement

Course List
Code Title Hours
JRNL 3630Magazine Writing4
ENGL 2740Writing and Community Engagement4
or ENGL 2850 Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice

Experiential Liberal Arts

All undergraduate students in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities are required to complete the Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement.

Program Requirement

129 total semester hours required

Sample Four Years, Two Co-ops

Spring/Summer 1

Year 1
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
JRNL 1000 or ENGL 10001JRNL 1101
and JRNL 1102
5Foreign language4Foreign language4
JRNL 11504ENGL 1160 or 14104Elective4Elective4
ENGW 11114English diversity requirement4  
ENGL 14004Elective4  
pre-nineteenth-century literature requirement4   
 17 17 8 8
Year 2
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
JRNL 22014Co-op0Co-op0Elective4
EEAM 2000 or EESH 20001  Elective4
Nineteenth-century, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century literature requirement4   
Theories and methods requirement4   
Elective4   
 17 0 0 8
Year 3
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1HoursSummer 2Hours
JRNL 23014Co-op0Co-op0English elective 14
Journalism elective 14  Elective4
Comparative literature requirement4   
English writing requirement4   
 16 0 0 8
Year 4
FallHoursSpringHoursSummer 1Hours 
JRNL 36104JRNL 3550 or 46504 
Journalism elective 24Journalism elective 34  
ENGL 2740 or 28504JRNL 36304  
English elective 24ENGL 47104  
 16 16 0 
Total Hours: 131
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