Course

Degree Requirements for the Journalism & Communication Bachelor’s Program

Students must complete 136 credits, including 32 credits from University requirements and 55 credits from department requirements. Students must complete two-thirds of the courses (except for the University requirements) from the department of Journalism & Communication, the department of Advertising & Communication, and the department of Communication Arts. Student must complete at least three courses from the social science and humanities category (including Politics, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, and Anthropology).

Description of Courses

Two core group of courses are provided:  Journalism and Speech Communication.

Journalism includes the following six category of courses：

1.	Requirements	Elective Options
Entrance level	Journalism Media Literacy History of Domestic Press The Western History of Communication Communication Law	Political Communication Introduction to Public Relations Public Relations Strategy & Planning Media Administration and Management Theory of Advertising

2.	Requirements	Elective Options
News Reporting and Writing	News Reporting and Writing Media Workshop	Depth News Reporting Journalistic Literature Report Writing Editorial and Critical Writing War News and War CultureInternship

3.	Requirements	Elective Options
News Editing and Planning	News Editing Media Workshop	Magazine Editing Advanced News Editing

4.	Requirements	Elective Options
Photo journalism	Photography Practicu	Photojournalism Picture Editing Documentry Photography Digital Images of Journalism

5.	Requirements	Elective Options
Broadcast Journalism	Principles and Production of Elec Media	TV News Production Seminar on TV News ReportingRedio News and Program Production）

6.	Requirements	Elective Options
Journalistic English	Journalistic English	Advanced Journalistic English

Speech Communication include the following 6 category of courses:

1.	Requirements	Elective Options
Entrance level	Principles of Speech Communication General Semantics Theories of Rhetoric	Principles and Practice of Interviewing Practical Rhetoric Methods of Rhetorical Criticism Gender and Communication Interpersonal Communications Organizational Communication

2.	Requirements	Elective Options
Communication theory and methods	Theories of Mass Communication Research Methods in Communication	Research Methods in Communication

3.	Requirements	Elective Options
Social Science and Humanities	Communication Statistics	Sociology Psychology Political Science Cultural Anthropology Economics Introduction to Civil Law Introduction to Criminal Law

4.	Requirements	Elective Options
International Communication		International Relations International Communication Seminar on the Foreign News The Study of Press of Mainland China

5.	Requirements	Elective Options
Localization		Social Movement and Communication Communications and History in Taiwan Contemporary Social Problems in Taiwan

6.	Requirements	Elective Options
Communication Technology	Information Science Desktop Publishing and Design	Internet News Multi-Image Multi-Media Production Digital Image Processing