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Journalism and English, BA

2023-2024 Edition

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The School of Journalism and the Department of English 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.

Universitywide Requirements

All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.

BA Language Requirements

All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

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 Writing
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
Foundational Courses
ENGL 1400Introduction to Literary Studies4
ENGL 1160Introduction to Rhetoric4
or ENGL 1410 Introduction to Research on Writing
ENGL 1700Global Literatures 14
or ENGL 1701 Global Literatures 2

English Electives

Two of the courses chosen from the lists below must be at the 3000 or 4000 level.

Course List
Code Title Hours
Diversity
Complete one course from the following. You may reuse this course to fulfill an additional English requirement below.4
ENGL 2150
Literature and Digital Diversity
ENGL 2296
Early African-American Literature
ENGL 2450
Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 2455
American Women Writers
ENGL 2470
Asian-American Literature
ENGL 2760
Writing in Global Contexts
ENGL 3678
Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
ENGL 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
Literary Periods
Pre-19th Century Literature
Complete one course from the following:4
ENGL 1600
Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 2296
Early African-American Literature
ENGL 3101
Early Literatures
ENGL 3120
17th- and 18th-Century Literatures
ENGL 3618
Milton
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
19th/20th/21st Century Literature
Complete one of the following courses:4
19th Century
ENGL 2330
The American Renaissance
ENGL 3140
19th-Century Literatures
ENGL 3190
Topics in 19th-Century American Literature
ENGL 3619
Emerson and Thoreau
ENGL 3720
19th-Century Major Figure
20th/21st Century
ENGL 2301
The Graphic Novel
ENGL 2440
The Modern Bestseller
ENGL 2600
Irish Literary Culture (Abroad)
ENGL 3161
20th- and 21st-Century Literatures
ENGL 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
or JWSS 3685
Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature
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 3381
The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
ENGL 3400
Opening the Archive
ENGL 3700
Narrative Medicine
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 Course
Complete one of the following courses:4
ENGL 1450
Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
ENGL 1500
British Literature to 1800
ENGL 1502
American Literature to 1865
ENGL 2150
Literature and Digital Diversity
ENGL 2420
Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 2430
Contemporary Fiction
ENGL 2455
American Women Writers
ENGL 2470
Asian-American Literature
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)
Writing
Complete one of the following:4
ENGL 2700
Creative Writing
ENGL 2710
Style and Editing
ENGL 2730
Digital Writing
ENGL 2740
Writing and Community Engagement
ENGL 2760
Writing in Global Contexts
ENGL 2770
Writing to Heal
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 3384
The Writer’s Marketplace
English Electives
Complete any two ENGL courses that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement.8

Capstone

Course List
Code Title Hours
English Capstone Requirement4
ENGL 4710
Capstone Seminar
or ENGL 4720
Capstone Project

Integrative Requirement

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

Program Requirement

129 total semester hours required

Sample Four Years, Two Co-ops

Spring/Summer 1

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