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
| 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 Writing 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Foundational Courses | ||
| ENGL 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
| ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 |
| or ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | |
| ENGL 1700 | Global Literatures 1 | 4 |
| 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.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Diversity | ||
| Complete one course from the following. You may reuse this course to fulfill an additional English requirement below. | 4 | |
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Postcolonial Literature | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Asian-American Literature | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
| Literary Periods | ||
| Pre-19th Century Literature | ||
| Complete one course from the following: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Early Literatures | ||
| 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures | ||
| Milton | ||
| 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 | ||
| The American Renaissance | ||
| 19th-Century Literatures | ||
| Topics in 19th-Century American Literature | ||
| Emerson and Thoreau | ||
| 19th-Century Major Figure | ||
20th/21st Century | ||
| The Graphic Novel | ||
| The Modern Bestseller | ||
| Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
| 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
or JWSS 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | |
| 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 | ||
| The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | ||
| Opening the Archive | ||
| Narrative Medicine | ||
| Introduction to Language and Linguistics | ||
| Linguistic Analysis | ||
| Syntax | ||
| Semantics | ||
| History of English | ||
| Language and Gender | ||
| Topics in Linguistics | ||
| Comparative Course | ||
| Complete one of the following courses: | 4 | |
| Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | ||
| British Literature to 1800 | ||
| American Literature to 1865 | ||
| Literature and Digital Diversity | ||
| Contemporary Poetry | ||
| Contemporary Fiction | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Asian-American Literature | ||
| Horror Fiction | ||
| Science Fiction | ||
| Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
| What Is Nature? | ||
| Boston in Literature | ||
| Film and Text (Abroad) | ||
| Writing | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Creative Writing | ||
| Style and Editing | ||
| Digital Writing | ||
| Writing and Community Engagement | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Writing to Heal | ||
| Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | ||
| Writing Boston | ||
| Creative Nonfiction | ||
| Poetry Workshop | ||
| Fiction Workshop | ||
| Writing Seminar | ||
| The Writer’s Marketplace | ||
| English Electives | ||
| Complete any two ENGL courses that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement. | 8 | |
Capstone
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| English Capstone Requirement | 4 | |
| Capstone Seminar | ||
or ENGL 4720 | Capstone Project | |
Integrative Requirement
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ENGL 2740 | Writing and Community Engagement | 4 |
| or ENGL 2850 | Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | |
| JRNL 3630 | Magazine Writing | 4 |
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 |
| ENGL 1400 | 4 | ENGL 1160 or 1410 | 4 | Foreign language | 4 | Foreign language | 4 |
| ENGW 1111 | 4 | JRNL 1101 and JRNL 1102 | 5 | Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| JRNL 1000 or ENGL 1000 | 1 | English diversity requirement | 4 | ||||
| JRNL 1150 | 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 |
| EEAM 2000 or EESH 2000 | 1 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | Elective | 4 |
| JRNL 2201 | 4 | 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 |
| Comparative literature requirement | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| English writing requirement | 4 | ||||||
| Journalism elective 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| ENGL 2740 or 2850 | 4 | ENGL 4710 | 4 | ||||
| JRNL 3610 | 4 | JRNL 3550 or 4650 | 4 | ||||
| English elective 2 | 4 | JRNL 3630 | 4 | ||||
| Journalism elective 2 | 4 | Journalism elective 3 | 4 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 131 | |||||||