Academics

• Limit on hours from SPEA, BUS, HPER, EDUC, MUSIC, INFO
  • If you plan to take SPEA, Business, HPER, Education, Music, INFO or other courses outside JOUR & COLL, be sure to check how close you are to the limit on these credit hours. To do so, look at your Degree Progress Report under the “Graduation Requirements” heading and the “123 Total Hours” subheading, look for the line that reads “No more than 25 hrs outside COLL and Mass Comm.” Right below that is listed the number of hours (units) you have completed. If you are close to or over the 25-hour limit and do not have to take the courses in SPEA, BUS, HPER, EDUC, MUS or INFO, best bet is to choose something else.

• N&M Science errors
  

  Please note that the following courses are not N&M science courses: PSY-P 102, GEOG-G 110, GEOG-G 120. Always check course descriptions, too, to be sure a course is not considered a duplicate to one already taken. (Ex. You may not get credit for AST-A 100 and AST-A 110 or AST- A 105 and A 110.)

• Stats/N&M
  • The following courses count for both statistics and N&M:
    • MATH-K 305 (This one is the JOUR version.)
    • CJUS-K 300
    • SOC-S 371
    • ECON-E 370 (also could fulfill stats and economics; cannot fulfill economics and N&M or all three requirements)
    • PSY-K300 (only for students who enrolled at IU Fall 2007 and beyond)
• CMCL Mass Comm courses
  • Certain Communication and Culture courses are considered mass comm courses and are subject to our 39-hour limit of mass comm courses. These CMCL courses may not be used in a second concentration: C 201, C 202, C 204, C 306, C 311, C 312, C 335, C 337, C 392, C 411, C 412, C 420, C 435.
• Business Second Concentration
  • A reminder that if you are taking business as your second concentration, you must follow the required courses listed in our bulletin and on your degree progress report for this. Three options are listed. You may follow any of them–just be sure we know which you’ve chosen.
• Distribution and Crosslist
  • The distribution list may seem confusing, but let’s not make it so. The distribution list consists of 12 courses under these categories:
    • U.S. History (1 course)
    • American Political Science (1 course)
    • Econ (1 course)
    • Literature or Fine Arts History (1 course) * if enrolled prior to Fall 2007
    • A&H (Arts & Humanities) (2 courses)
    • S&H (Social & Historical) (2 courses) * if enrolled prior to Fall 2007
    • N&M (Natural & Mathematical (4 courses). You may not cross-list courses within the distribution list. So, for example, if you plan to count ECON-E 201 for the Econ requirement, you may not also use E 201 for S&H. You may crosslist courses outside of the Distribution list, though, such as CLAS-C 205 which will count both as A&H and as Culture Studies A.
• Second concentration/Minor/Second Major: What are the differences?
  • A second concentration is what we (in Journalism) require for the degree and is generally ANY 24 hours in a department other than JOUR (see pages 12 and 13 in the 2002-04 Journalism bulletin or pages 11-13 in the 2004-06 Journalism bulletin for exceptions).
  • A minor is generally 15 hours and has specific requirements. A minor may fit within our second concentration, but does not complete it. To complete the concentration, you would need to add extra hours in the department to reach our required 24 hours.
  • A second major is usually 27 or 30 hours and has specific requirements. Completing a second major fulfills our second concentration requirement. You may earn a second major only in COLL. In doing so, you do not need to complete the COLL degree requirements–only the 27 or 30 hours required for the major.

Application forms

• Graduation: fill out the online form
• Second majors: racks in the main office
• Minors: in the department providing the minor
• Split concentrations: School of Journalism Recorder Jean Person’s office (EP 200B)

Transferring credits from other universities

• See IU Admissions Web site to determine how courses transfer to IU.

Further questions?

• Contact Director of Advising Services Lauren Kinzer or Academic Counselor and Recorder Jean Person. Both have offices within the main office at Ernie Pyle Hall.