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
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Journalism Introductory Course | ||
| JRNL 1150 | Understanding Today’s News | 4 |
| 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 2201 | Journalism 2: Intermediate Reporting | 4 |
| JRNL 2301 | Visual Storytelling in Journalism | 4 |
| JRNL 3610 | Digital Storytelling and Social Media | 4 |
| Law and Ethics | ||
| JRNL 3550 | The First Amendment and the Media | 4 |
| or JRNL 4650 | Ethics and Issues in Journalism | |
| Journalism Electives | ||
| Take three JRNL courses | 12 | |
English Requirements
| 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 1000 | English at Northeastern | 1 |
| Foundational Courses | ||
| ENGL 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
| ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 |
| 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 | |
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Postcolonial Women Writers | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| The African American Novel | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
or JWSS 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | |
| Pre-Nineteenth-Century Literature | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
| Global Literatures 1 | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Early Literatures | ||
| 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures | ||
| 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 | |
| The American Renaissance | ||
| The Graphic Novel | ||
| The Modern Bestseller | ||
| Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
| Contemporary Israeli Literature and Art (Abroad) | ||
| 19th-Century Literatures | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
or JWSS 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | |
| 19th-Century Major Figure | ||
| 20th- and 21st-Century Major Figure | ||
| Theories and Methods | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Grammar: The Architecture of English | ||
| Introduction to Rhetoric | ||
| Introduction to Research on Writing | ||
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
| Rhetoric of Law | ||
| Technologies of Text | ||
| Writing Cultures | ||
| The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | ||
| Opening the Archive | ||
| Narrative Medicine | ||
| Research in Rhetoric and Writing | ||
| Introduction to Language and Linguistics | ||
| Linguistic Analysis | ||
| Syntax | ||
| Semantics | ||
| History of English | ||
| Language and Gender | ||
| Topics in Linguistics | ||
| Comparative Literature | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | ||
| American Literature to 1865 | ||
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
| Contemporary Poetry | ||
| Contemporary Fiction | ||
| Postcolonial Women Writers | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Horror Fiction | ||
| Science Fiction | ||
| Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
| What Is Nature? | ||
| Boston in Literature | ||
| Film and Text (Abroad) | ||
| The African American Novel | ||
| Writing | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Creative Writing | ||
| Style and Editing | ||
| Writing and Community Engagement | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Writing to Heal | ||
| Visual Writing: Writing Visuals | ||
| Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | ||
| Writing Boston | ||
| Creative Nonfiction | ||
| Poetry Workshop | ||
| Fiction Workshop | ||
| Writing Seminar | ||
| Publishing in the 21st Century | ||
| The Writer’s Marketplace | ||
| Capstone | ||
| ENGL 4710 | Capstone Seminar | 4 |
| or ENGL 4720 | Capstone Project | |
| English Electives | ||
| Complete two additional ENGL electives. | 8 | |
Integrative Requirement
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| JRNL 3630 | Magazine Writing | 4 |
| ENGL 2740 | Writing and Community Engagement | 4 |
| 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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| JRNL 1000 or ENGL 1000 | 1 | JRNL 1101 and JRNL 1102 | 5 | Foreign language | 4 | Foreign language | 4 |
| JRNL 1150 | 4 | ENGL 1160 or 1410 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| ENGW 1111 | 4 | English diversity requirement | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 1400 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| pre-nineteenth-century literature requirement | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| JRNL 2201 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | Elective | 4 |
| EEAM 2000 or EESH 2000 | 1 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Nineteenth-century, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century literature requirement | 4 | ||||||
| Theories and methods requirement | 4 | ||||||
| Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| JRNL 2301 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | English elective 1 | 4 |
| Journalism elective 1 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| Comparative literature requirement | 4 | ||||||
| English writing requirement | 4 | ||||||
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | ||
| JRNL 3610 | 4 | JRNL 3550 or 4650 | 4 | ||||
| Journalism elective 2 | 4 | Journalism elective 3 | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 2740 or 2850 | 4 | JRNL 3630 | 4 | ||||
| English elective 2 | 4 | ENGL 4710 | 4 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | 0 | |||||
| Total Hours: 131 | |||||||