The Journalism and Social Change Minor provides students with foundational knowledge in journalism skills, critical thinking and analytical news literacy, relationship-building and ethics, and understanding the role of journalism in and its response to social change. This undergraduate program is administered through the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media.
Minor in Journalism and Social Change
Lower-level Requirements – 6 credits
- JRNL 200 (3) Journalism Here and Now
- JRNL 201 (3) Introduction to News Audiences
Upper-level Requirements – 18 credits
12 credits, consisting of:
- JRNL 320 (3) Multimedia Journalism
- JRNL 325 (3) Fundamentals of Community Reporting
- JRNL 420 (3) Decoding Social Media
- JRNL 425 (3) Journalism and Social Change
6 credits, chosen from the following courses that address social change or journalism skills:*
- ACAM 350 (3) - Asian Canadian Community-Based Media
- CRWR 302 (3) - Writing for Podcast
- CRWR 305 (3) - Intermediate Writing of Creative Non-Fiction
- ECON 317 (3) - Poverty and Inequality
- ENGL 312 (3) - Discourse and Society
- ENGL 332 (3) - Approaches to Media History
- ENGL 336 (3) – Print Culture and Media Studies
- ENGL 377 (3) – World Literature and Social Movements
- FNIS 300 (3) - Writing First Nations
- FNIS 454 (3) - Indigenous New Media
- GEOG 313 (3) - Environmental Justice and Social Change
- GEOG 357 (3) - Society, Culture and Space
- GEOG 432 (3) - Radical Traditions of Decolonization and Liberation
- GRSJ 307 (3) - Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
- GRSJ 316 (3) - Queer and Trans of Colour Theorizing
- GRSJ 320 (3) - Feminist Anti-Racist Pedagogies
- GRSJ 326 (3) - The Politics of Gender, Families, and Nation-Building
- HIST 425 (3) - War and Society
- INFO 419 (3) - Information Visualization
- INFO 456 (3) - Information Policy and Society
- JRNL 400 (3) - Feminist Postcolonial Critique and Journalism in a Digital Age
- JRNL 440 (3) - Imagine Journalism
- SCIE 300 (3) Communicating Science
- SOCI 302 (3) - Ethnic and Racial Inequality
- SOCI 303 (3) - Sociology of Migration
- SOCI 310 (3) - Canadian Society
- SOCI 361 (3) - Social Inequality
- WRDS 350 (3) - Knowledge-Making in the Disciplines
- WRDS 360 (3) - Knowledge Popularization: Research Writing in New Media
*Students are encouraged, when possible, to select at least one social change course from within their major discipline. Additional courses may be eligible towards the requirement upon consultation with the program chair.