Complement Your Degree with a Communications or Journalism Minor

These undergraduate minor programs are offered by the School of Communications Department of Communications and Journalism and most are only available at the St. Louis main campus. The Media Studies minor is also available online and at the Geneva, Switzerland and Tashkent, Uzbekistan campuses.

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Minor in Integrated Strategic Communications

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18 Credit Hours

This minor is designed to give students from all academic disciplines within the university an opportunity to explore the basic principles, theory and practice of Strategic Communications that businesses, organizations, and non-profit and charitable entities use to inform persuade and engage multiple stakeholders.

Requirements for the Integrated Strategic Communications Minor
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Minor in Journalism

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18 Credit Hours

This minor has requires a course in media writing with the remaining 15 credit hours selected from JOUR courses.

Requirements for the Journalism Minor
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Minor in Media Studies

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18 Credit Hours

This minor will include creating effective communications strategies, developing media content for different audiences and communication fields over multiple platforms, and analyzing media content and effects.

Requirements for the Media Studies Minor
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Minor in Scriptwriting

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18 Credit Hours

This minor has two required courses in media writing and scriptwriting, with the remaining 12 credit hours selected from selected SCPT courses.

Requirements for the Scriptwriting Minor
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Minor in Sports Communication

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18 Credit Hours

This minor will help you define and engage a personal connection within professional and academic sports communication fields and learn to effectively communicate sports messaging across a variety of platforms.

Requirements for the Sports Communication Minor

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