Sports Journalism Minor
Sports journalism is offered as a minor only. The minor in sports journalism focuses on developing broad journalistic skills and specific sports journalism training. Students examine issues of ethics, race, and gender in the world of athletics within the interdisciplinary context of business, law, and sociology.
Learning Outcomes
Upon graduation with a sports journalism minor, students will have achieved the following curricular goals:
- In terms of knowledge, students will develop a critically-informed understanding of journalism as a set of industries and institutions, a site of political and cultural contestation, a space of creative and critical production, and an evolving political and economic ecosystem.
- Through specific sports journalism training, students will learn fundamental journalistic skills as well as multimedia production skills to prepare for a career in sports journalism.
- Students will gain knowledge of the sports industry with critical thinking of the structure, key actors, and trends within the industry as well as challenges facing the industry and the impact of sports on society.
- Students will be able to examine issues of ethics, race, and gender in the world of athletics within the interdisciplinary context of business, law, and sociology.
- Students will also consider the economic, legal and sociological framings of sport, all of which feed into shaping the production and reception of sports media.
- In terms of values, minors will be aware of the ethical and moral challenges that journalists face, and the ways in which such challenges are addressed.
The sports journalism minor requires six courses.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| JOUR 1702 | Introduction to Journalism | 4 |
| DTEM 2421 | Digital Production for New Media | 4 |
| JOUR 2711 | Intermediate Multimedia Reporting | 4 |
| Two Sports Journalism courses | ||
| One general sports-related course | ||
Requirements for students who took JOUR 1701 in spring 2021 or earlier
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| JOUR 1701 | Introduction to Multimedia Journalism With Lab | 4 |
| JOUR 2711 | Intermediate Multimedia Reporting 1 | 4 |
| Select one of the following Sports Communication courses: | 4 | |
| Sports Communication | ||
| Sports Writing and Reporting | ||
| Sports Broadcasting | ||
| One course in Journalism Ethics, Law, Policy, or History 2 | ||
| One course in Intermediate/Advanced Journalism Reporting/Writing 2 | ||
| One general sports-related course | ||
- 1
Students in the class of 2021 and earlier are exempt from this requirement, and may take an additional JOUR elective instead.
- 2
See Journalism Major for approved courses.
Sports Journalism courses
Courses in this group have the SJWR attribute.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| JOUR 2786 | Sports Writing and Reporting | 4 |
| JOUR 2789 | Sports Broadcasting | 4 |
General sports-related courses
Courses in this group have the SJOR attribute.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AFAM 3110 | The Black Athlete | 4 |
| BLBU 4449 | ST: Sports and the Law | 3 |
| CMBU 4488 | ST: Business of Sports Media | 3 |
| COMC 3186 | Sports Communication | 4 |
| COMC 3187 | Sports Communication in the Field | 4 |
| INSY 3437 | ST: Sports Analytics | 3 |
| JOUR 4789 | Sports Television Production: Theory and Practice | 4 |
| MKBU 4454 | ST: Sports Marketing | 3 |
| PSYC 3360 | Sports Psychology | 4 |
| SOCI 3152 | Sociology of Sports | 4 |
Availability
The minor in sports journalism is available at Fordham College at Rose Hill (FCRH) and Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC). The sports journalism minor is not available to journalism majors due to overlap between the requirements. The majority of sports-focused journalism classes are taught at the Rose Hill campus.
Students in Fordham's School of Professional and Continuing Studies may minor in sports journalism only if they receive the approval of their advising dean and/or department, and their schedules are sufficiently flexible to permit them to take day courses at the Rose Hill or Lincoln Center campuses. Such students must provide the Communication and Media Studies Associate Chair at their home campus a statement confirming they are able to take day classes in order to fulfill their minor requirements.