| Journalism
College of Social Sciences
Crawford 208
2550 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8881
Fax: (808) 956-5396
E-mail: jour@hawaii.edu
Web: www.hawaii.edu/~jour/
Faculty
T. J. Brislin, PhD (Chair)--mass communication,
history/trends, ethics
A. Auman, MA--news editing, publication layout and design
L. Frazier, EdD--public relations, publication layout and design
G. Y. Kato, MA--broadcast news, law, reporting
B. D. Keever, MS--public affairs reporting
Degree Offered: BA in journalism
The Academic Program
Journalism (JOUR) education helps students develop
their ability to gather, analyze, and organize information and to
communicate it to others clearly, effectively, and responsibly--skills
that are particularly important in this Age of Information. Assignments
in journalism courses also lead students to increase their knowledge of
public institutions and major public issues and to become more at ease
in meeting and talking with other people at many different levels. Many
students major in journalism to prepare for careers with the print or
broadcast news media or in public relations work. However, a journalism
education also serves as an excellent foundation for graduate study in
other fields.
The department, which is largely professional in its
orientation, is one of 106 departments or schools of journalism in the
United States with national accreditation and is among the leaders in
its emphasis on ethics and quality writing. More than half of its
classes are “writing-intensive,” and most call for more writing than
that designation requires. Students are encouraged to work for Ka Leo
O Hawai‘i, the campus newspaper, and to participate in the
department’s extensive program of professional internships, many of
which offer pay as well as valuable experience.
Accreditation
The program is accredited by the Accrediting Council
on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Advising
Advising is mandatory for all journalism majors.
Undergraduate Study
Bachelor’s Degree
Requirements
• 30 credit hours
minimum (maximum of 33) in journalism courses
• 15 additional non-introductory credit hours in a discipline
of choice
• 90 credit hours in non-journalism courses
• All students enrolled in journalism classes requiring
off-campus assignments must sign a University of Hawai‘i Waiver
Form--Assumption of Risk and Release
Required Courses
• For all students:
JOUR 150, 205, 206, and 365
• For students in print journalism sequence: JOUR 315, 415,
445, and 460
• For students in broadcast journalism sequence: JOUR 315, 366,
436, 466, and 460
• For students in public relations sequence: JOUR 320, 410, and
420.
Liberal Studies
Colleges of Arts and Sciences
Hawai‘i 2
2500 Campus Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-7297
Web: www.hawaii.edu/libst/
Faculty
P. Manicas (Director), PhD
E. Drechsel, PhD
J. Odin, PhD
Degree Offered: BA in liberal studies
The Academic Program
The objective of the Liberal Studies Program is to
provide students with an opportunity to pursue a course of study that is
not restricted to conventional departmental or unit boundaries. A
crucial feature is the advising process, which aims to develop the
student’s ability to formulate a major equivalent comprised of
non-introductory courses with thematic integrity and continuity. This
ensures that while flexibility in the curriculum is encouraged, it
precludes loss of academic substance and rigor. Thus students create
their own degree proposals that draw upon a number of disciplines in the
study of a particular problem or theme.
While the program primarily encourages creation of
individually conceived curricula, it also serves to accommodate students
in a variety of fields that lack an undergraduate major and are
interdisciplinary in nature:
1. Pre-professional majors (e.g., pre-law, pre-med, pre-optometry,
pre-physical therapy);
2. Undergraduate majors that are established only as graduate programs
(e.g., astronomy, educational psychology, English as a second language,
linguistics);
3. Majors that are predominantly interdisciplinary (e.g., aging,
comparative literature, environmental studies, international studies,
Pacific Islands studies, peace studies, women’s studies); and
4. Majors that combine work in several colleges (e.g., business
communications, arts administration, health and public policy, etc.).
Degree proposals must focus upon the identified
academic theme, be made in writing, and be accepted by the liberal
studies faculty before the student enrolls for 21 of the 36 credits
required in the major equivalent.
Liberal studies students must satisfy the University
degree requirements and those for the Colleges of Arts and Sciences.
Students must also maintain a minimum 2.5 GPA for the major equivalent
courses. These courses may not be taken CR/NC, unless mandatory.
Successful candidates earn a bachelor of arts in liberal studies from
the Colleges of Arts and Sciences.
There are a number of interdisciplinary programs
within the University that offer undergraduate courses but do not
provide a baccalaureate degree. Students electing to pursue a major in
these disciplines presently do so in liberal studies.
Details about admission to the program and assistance
in preparing an individually designed major are available at the program
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