Ralph Izard, Director
Thomas Peters, Associate Director
Patrick Washburn, Assistant Director

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The E. W. Scripps School of Journalism is fully accredited, with undergraduate sequences in advertising, broadcast news, news writing and editing, magazine journalism, and public relations.

The journalism school is recognized nationally and by the Ohio Board of Regents for the quality of its more than 200 annual graduates who move into professional careers on leading newspapers, magazines, and news-gathering organizations, as well as into advertising and public relations positions. Careers take them to all parts of the world.

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Bachelor of Science in Journalism

Purposes and Objectives

1. To provide thorough, broadly based professional education and training in journalism and communications, leading to the B.S.J. and advanced degrees
2. To provide liberal and cultural background in the arts, literature, languages, and social and natural sciences
3. To promote scholarly research and achievements by the faculty and students
4. To provide leadership and assistance to high school journalism and to professional associations on state, national, and international levels
5. To set high standards of journalistic ethics.

Journalism today is a professionÑlike medicine, law, teaching, or engineering. It requires its practitioners to be educated culturally and trained professionally. Blending the liberal arts with professional courses, Ohio University journalism students take approximately three-fourths of their courses outside the professional school.

Five sequences are offered, all leading to the Bachelor of Science in Journalism degree: advertising, magazine journalism, news writing and editing, public relations, and broadcast news.

While there is overlap between journalism and telecommunications in broadcast news career preparation, students interested in being news writers, reporters, and anchors should enroll in the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, and students interested in studio and field production should enroll in the School of Telecommunications.

While working toward their degree, students may serve on the staff of the Athens Messenger, an independently owned daily newspaper. Four editors are faculty members of the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism. The student staff members of the Athens Messenger gather and write news, edit local and wire copy, write headlines, and prepare copy and layouts. This training prepares students to enter the profession immediately after graduation.

Practical experience also is available on a laboratory magazine, Southeast Ohio , and in graphics and advertising laboratories. Many students add to their experience by helping edit the Post, the independent daily campus newspaper; the Athena , the university yearbook; or The Ohio Journalist, the school's alumni publication.

In broadcast news, students get practical experience in preparing and broadcasting news over WOUB AM, FM, and TV, the university's radio and television stations, and over ACTV-7, the local cable television system. Advertising and public relations students gain practical experience through internships with agencies, corporations, hospitals, charitable groups, newspapers, magazines, and broadcast stations. Students comprise the advertising staff of Southeast Ohio magazine and serve in public relations capacities with university and community organizations.

Admission Requirements

Transfer Students

1. Approximately 40 transfer students will be accepted annually into the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism.
2. Transfer students from within or outside Ohio University will be considered only when they have at least 48 quarter hours (32 semester hours) with a minimum 2.5 g.p.a.
3. In addition to grades, consideration will be given to test scores, journalism grades, journalism background in a program offered by the school (professional, college, or high school), letters of recommendation, and personal statements of intent.
4. Transfer applications will be considered for admission only in the fall quarter.
5. You may apply for transfer only through use of the school's Application for Transfer form, obtained by writing to the admissions committee.
6. Official transcripts, letters, and other supporting documents must be attached to the Application for Transfer at the time of its submission.
7. Evaluations will be conducted and decisions made by a special faculty committee.
8. Your application for transfer should be received by the School of Journalism no later than the closing date of the winter quarter. At this time, you may be granted provisional admittance if you will have achieved the required 48 quarter hours by the time of fall quarter admission.

Internship Program

Curricula and Requirements

Journalism students at Ohio University meet the above provision largely by fulfilling two sets of requirements: general and specialization area requirements. The first of these provides for a liberal arts and sciences core for all students, as follows:

Political Science (2 qtrs)

Sociology and/or Anthropology (2 qtrs)

Economics (2 qtrs)

Psychology (1 qtr) (except PSY 120)

History (2 qtrs)

English (2 qtrs) (one from approved school list)

Statistics (1 qtr) (from approved school list)

Philosophy (2 qtrs) (one must be PHIL 120 or 320)

Foreign Language (3 qtrs basic sequence or 1 qtr advanced) or Natural Science (3 qtrs as approved by advisor)

Comparative Arts/Fine Arts (nonperformance courses) (2 qtrs) or African American and/or Women's Studies (2 qtrs)

Speech (1 qtr) INCO 103

Computer Science (1 qtr) CS 120

To this liberal base, which should be the focus of the freshman year, students add courses in a desired area of specialization. This requirement may be filled by completing any one of four options:

1. A minimum of 36 hours in a single department within the College of Arts and Sciences (usually structured in accordance with the major requirements of the selected department).
2. A minimum of 18 approved hours in each of two departments in Arts and Sciences.

A minimum of 18 approved hours in one Arts and Sciences department and 18 advisor-approved hours in any other series of related courses.

A minimum of 20 approved hours in one Arts and Sciences department and 16 advisor-approved hours in any other series of related courses.

Additional nonjournalism courses are required in some sequences. No course may be counted in more than one type of requirement. For example, a course used to meet a general requirement may not be applied to a sequence or specialization area requirement as well.

To assure the liberal emphasis of the overall program, the professional content of the B.S.J. is limited to one-fourth of the 192 hours required for the degree. Credits for all courses in journalism, telecommunications, photography, and visual communication should total at least 45 hours and not more than 55 hours. All professional hours beyond 55 must be compensated for by nonprofessional hours over the required 192-hour total. Nonjournalism courses that are required in sequences are not to be counted as part of the 45Ð55 total professional hours.

Standards

1. To qualify for admission to JOUR 231, you must achieve at least 25 words per minute on a typing examination. This exam is administered on the first day of the JOUR 231 class.
2. To remain active in the B.S.J. program, you must earn at least a C in all core courses.
3. No core course may be taken more than twice.

Journalism Sequences

JOUR 105 Introduction to Mass Communication, a freshman course, is optional.

Additional requirements for the various sequences are as follows:

Advertising Management

Major code BJ6932

Broadcast News

Major code BJ6936

Magazine Journalism

Major code BJ6933

Select two of the following:

JOUR 331   Contemporary Issues 3
JOUR 350   Radio Broadcast News 4
JOUR 363   Review and Criticism 3
JOUR 441   Mag. Feature Writing 4
           (second time with different instructor)
JOUR 442   Adv. Feature Writing 3
JOUR 450   Copywriting 3
JOUR 464   Reporting Public Affairs 3

Select one of the following:

JOUR 235   Picture Editing 3
JOUR 333   News Editing 4
JOUR 407   Electronic Publishing 4
JOUR 432   Specialized Bus. Mags. 3
JOUR 443   Advanced Mag. Editing 3
JOUR 483   Mag. Pub. and Mgt. 3
           Journalism electives

News Writing and Editing

Major code BJ6934

Select two of the following:

Public Relations

Major code BJ6935

Select two of the following:

Select one course from:

SOC 210, 211, 412, 413, or 414 4
            Journalism electives to make 45-55 hours

Carr Van Anda Program

    

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