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Tentative Course Offerings

Here is what we expect to offer in the coming academic year. Use it to sketch out your plan, then confirm with your journalism adviser before you register. Offerings change.

For the full list of courses required for the Journalism BS, see the major requirements.

Tentative course offerings: 2026-27

Courses we expect to offer by semester. An X means we plan to offer the course that semester. A blank means we do not.
Course Title Summer Fall Spring
JOUR 1102 Introduction to Journalism

 

X

 
JOUR 2201 News Media and Democracy

 

X

 
JOUR 2203 News Reporting and Writing

 

X

X
JOUR 2219 Multicultural Society and the Mass Media

 

X

X
JOUR 2220 Introduction to Radio Broadcasting

 

X

X
JOUR 2228 Media, Self and Society

 

X

X
JOUR 2285 Introduction to Multimedia Journalism

 

X

X
JOUR 3300 Public Relations

 

X

 
JOUR 3302 Mass Media Law

 

X

X
JOUR 3303 Web Audio and Video

 

X

X
JOUR 3304 Public Affairs Reporting

 

X

X
JOUR 3305 Journalism Ethics  

X

X
JOUR 3307 Feature Writing

 

X

X
JOUR 3310 Advanced Digital Journalism      
JOUR 3313 Public Relations Campaigns

 

X

 
JOUR 3314 Public Relations and Crisis Management

 

X

X
JOUR 3315 Public Relations and Advertising Production      
JOUR 3319 Global Communication

 

X

X
JOUR 3320 Cal Poly Radio Laboratory

 

X

X
JOUR 3325 Reporting on Latino Communities    

X
JOUR 3331 Contemporary Advertising

 

X

X
JOUR 3333 Broadcast News

 

X

X
JOUR 3334 Editing

 

X

X
JOUR 3338 Podcasting

 

X

X
JOUR 3342 Public Relations Writing and Editing

 

X

X
JOUR 3345 Social Media for Strategic Communication

 

X

X
JOUR 3346 Broadcast Announcing and Production

 

X

 
JOUR 3347 Public Relations Research

 

X

X
JOUR 3348 Video News Gathering

 

 

X
JOUR 3350 Data Journalism

 

X

 
JOUR 3352 Advanced News Reporting Practicum

 

X

X
JOUR 3353 Advanced Broadcast Journalism Practicum

 

X

X
JOUR 3354 News Product Practicum  

X

X
JOUR 3378 Advanced Sportscasting

 

X

X
JOUR 3385 Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship

 

X

X
JOUR 3390 Visual Communication for the Mass Media

 

X

X
JOUR 4411 Social Justice and Solutions Journalism

 

X

 
JOUR 4444 Media Internship

X

X

X
JOUR 4455 Media Management Laboratory

 

X

X
JOUR 4460 Senior Project

 

X

X
JOUR 4462 Senior Project: Media Practicum

 

X

X
JOUR 4464 Senior Project: Public Relations Practicum

 

X

X
JOUR 4470 Selected Advanced Topics

 

TBD

TBD
JOUR 4471 Selected Advanced Laboratory

 

TBD

TBD

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