Before you register for classes, click here for information about the following:

• Deciding whether to adopt the new COJO major or stay on an existing COMM or JOUR major
• Deleted courses, new courses and course substitutions
• Enrollment in COJO 480 Communication Ethics capstone seminar
• Planning for upper-level and once-per-year courses

DECIDING WHETHER TO ADOPT THE NEW COJO MAJOR OR STAY ON AN EXISTING COMM OR JOUR MAJOR

If you have completed four or more courses toward a COMM or JOUR major, you should stay on that program, but if you have completed three or fewer courses, you should consider declaring the new COJO major.  Please note that you cannot declare a major or minor until you have completed 48 credits.

The new COJO major requires completion of 11 courses, or 44 credits, but will not require completion of a minor or double major in an outside department.  Only current JOUR majors who stay on their existing major programs in Advertising, Broadcast Journalism, Media Studies, Print Journalism and Public Relations still must complete an outside minor or double major.

COJO majors cannot count COJO 100 Public Speaking or COJO 105 Communication in the Workplace as part of the 11-course major.  COJO minors may count one of those two courses as one of the five courses required for the minor.

DELETED COURSES, NEW COURSES AND COURSE SUBSTITUTIONS

COJO 111 Communication & Citizenship will debut in the fall 2008 semester.  Team-taught by professors Carol Bruess, Kris Bunton, Tom Connery and Wendy Wyatt, the course will offer spaces for 160 students per semester and meet from 3:25 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.  (Students who cannot enroll in the course during that time period may take it during January term or summer session.)  The large section is intended to create a COJO community and allow students to work in teams of many sizes.  The course, which will stress the relationship of all forms of communication to the public realm, hopes to develop students' sense of their own agency in the communication process and will include a significant service learning component at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. 

JOUR 100 Mass Communication & Society will not be offered after this summer.  If you have completed JOUR 100 and wish to declare the new COJO major or minor, you may substitute it for COJO 111.  If you wish to stay on an old JOUR major track, you may take JOUR 100 this summer.  After summer, you will have to take COJO 111 and select the new COJO major or minor.

COJO 112 Public Communication: Speaking and Writing also will debut in the fall 2008 semester.  Taught in sections of 16 students each, the course will stress essential writing and public speaking skills needed to communicate with academic, professional and citizen audiences.  Writing and speaking skills will be paired to teach thoughtful, professional and ethical communication.  Multiple sections of the course will be offered every fall and spring semester, and at least one section will be offered each January term and summer session.  COJO 112 may be taken concurrently with COJO 111. 

JOUR 110 Media Writing & Information Gathering will not be offered after this summer.  If you have completed JOUR 110 and wish to declare the new COJO major or minor, you may substitute it for COJO 112.  If you wish to stay on an old JOUR major track, you may either take JOUR 110 this summer or take COJO 112 this fall in place of JOUR 110.

 

JOUR 445 Advertising Campaign Strategies and JOUR 450 Advanced Public Relations will no longer be offered.  Seniors who are JOAD and JOPR majors and minors should enroll in the new combined course, COJO 470 Advertising & Public Relations Campaigns, which better reflects the integrated nature of strategic communication today. 

 

JOUR 240 Advertising Principles and JOUR 250 Public Relations Principles will no longer be offered.  Students who are JOAD and JOPR majors and minors should enroll in the new combined course, COJO 234 Principles of Advertising & Public Relations, which is also designed to reflect today’s integrated strategic communication field.

 

 

ENROLLMENT IN COJO 480 COMMUNICATION ETHICS CAPSTONE SEMINAR

Effective fall 2008, COMM 480 Capstone Course in Communication and JOUR 480 Media Ethics will no longer be offered.  Currently declared COMM and JOUR majors instead should enroll in COJO 480 Communication Ethics during their final semester. 

Students who currently are declared as double-majors in COMM and JOUR should complete COJO 480 Communication Ethics in place of JOUR 480 Media Ethics and then choose another course that can be substituted for COMM 480 Capstone Course in Communication.  The courses that double-majors in COMM and JOUR can substitute for COMM 480 are as follows: 

Fall 2008:

• COJO 328 Communication of Race, Class and Gender
• COJO 332 Documentary in American Culture
• COJO 336 Media Law
• COJO 338 Political Communication

Spring 2009:

• COJO 326 Modern American Rhetoric
• COJO 330 Communication History
• COJO 432 Media Structure and Power
• COJO 472 Family Communication

Please note that COJO 480 cannot be counted as both COMM 480 and JOUR 480 by double-majors.  Also, the substitute course for double-majors cannot be used as a “double dip” that satisfies other requirements in the COMM major.  When you have selected your course substitution for COMM 480, you will need to see Dr. Bunton to complete a course substitution form and submit it to the registrar’s office.  Please use the sign-up sheet posted beside Dr. Bunton’s office door (470 OEC) to make an appointment to do so.

Seniors need a permission slip to enroll in COJO 480 Communication Ethics.  Because it is a capstone seminar, you may not enroll in the course until your last semester before graduation.  In the fall 2008 semester, two sections of Communication Ethics will be offered.  Students who are graduating in December 2008 or January 2009 are eligible for these sections.  To secure a permission slip for the fall 2008 sections of Communication Ethics, see Dr. Bunton, who will review your degree evaluation and issue a permission slip for one of the sections.  Permission slips will be available beginning Monday, April 7.  Use the sign-up sheet posted beside Dr. Bunton’s office door (470 OEC) to select a specific time on April 7 or thereafter to obtain a permission slip.  Please note that seniors begin registering for courses April 21, so you’ll want to have obtained your permission slip and taken it to the registrar’s office before that date.

PLANNING FOR UPPER-LEVEL AND ONCE-PER-YEAR COURSES

Many of our courses are available every semester, but some are offered just once a year or every other year. 

In 2008-2009, we expect to offer the following courses only in the fall semester:

• COJO 222 Survey of Communication Disorders
• COJO 254 Photojournalism
• COJO 272 Advertising & Media Connections Planning
• COJO 276 Argumentation & Advocacy
• COJO 328 Communication of Race, Class & gender
• COJO 332 Documentary in American Culture
• COJO 336 Media Law
• COJO 338 Political Communication
• COJO 350 Magazine Writing

In 2008-2009, we expect to offer the following courses only in the spring semester:

• COJO 230 Foundations in Media & Society
• COJO 262 Radio Production
• COJO 326 Modern American Rhetoric
• COJO 330 Communication History
• COJO 432 Media Structure & Power
• COJO 450 Advanced Reporting
• COJO 456 Graphic Design Studio
• COJO 460 Advanced Video Production
• COJO 462 Advanced Broadcast Reporting
• COJO 472 Family Communication                 

We do not expect to offer the following courses in 2008-2009, but hope to return them to the schedule in 2009-2010:

• COJO 334 Literary Journalism
• COJO 340 Television Criticism
• COJO 366 Persuasion
• COJO 368 Advanced Advertising Copywriting
• COJO 372 Environmental Communication
• COJO 426 Classical Rhetoric
• COJO 430 Society, Culture & the Media