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May 14, 2024
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2012-2014 Undergraduate Catalog ARCHIVED CATALOG: CONTENT MAY NOT BE CURRENT. USE THE DROP DOWN ABOVE TO ACCESS THE CURRENT CATALOG.
Journalism and Media Studies Major
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Recommended Courses That Meet General Education Core Requirements
The Greenspun College of Urban Affairs strongly recommends that students address their General Education Core curriculum requirements through our college. The following classes offered in our college meet graduation requirements: Life and Physical Science
In addition
Incoming freshmen are strongly encouraged to join a Learning Community (LC) during their first-year at UNLV. A Learning Community is a cohort of students who take coursework together and benefit from the following outcomes: greater course satisfaction, increased interaction between faculty and students, increased understanding of the connections between disciplines, better connections with peers, improved student engagement and involvement on campus, increased satisfaction with the college experience General Education Requirements
First-Year Seminar - Total Credits: 2-3
English Composition - Total Credits: 6
Second-Year Seminar - Total Credits: 3
Constitutions - Total Credits: 4-6
Mathematics - Total Credits: 3
Distribution Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Social Science - Total Credits: 9 Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking - Total Credits: 10 - PHIL 102 - Critical Thinking and Reasoning
and two courses from life and physical sciences category; at least one must be a lab
Multicultural and International
(see note 1 below) Additional Degree Requirements
Areas of Interest or Specialization - Total Credits: 15
Areas of interest are crafted for individual students in consultation with faculty advisors, and must be a minimum of fifteen credits. More credits may be recommended and those would reduce the number of upper division electives available. Upper Division Electives - Total Credits: 9
Total credits within the major (including pre-major courses): 54 (see note 2) Other Electives - Total Credits: 26-29
Note
- Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural course and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements except one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.
- Total credits within the major, consist of 9 credits of Pre-major courses, 21 credits of Journalism and Media Studies Core, 15 credits of Areas of Interest or Specialization, and 9 credits of Upper division electives for a total of 54 credits.
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