Prejournalism
Students who intend to apply to the program complete their freshman year of undergraduate work (a minimum of 30 semester hours) typically in the Journalism and Mass Communication program as prejournalism and mass communication majors. Students may be eligible to apply to one of the five sequences during the second semester of their freshman year for admission as sophomores.
A number of highly qualified applicants to the University of Colorado at Boulder will be admitted directly to the JMC program from high school.
Intra-University Transfer (IUT) into Journalism and Mass Communication
Current CU students who wish to become prejournalism majors must have a minimum 2.5 overall grade point average and must attend one of the following informational meetings. The meeting will cover possible declaration of the major and application requirements to one of the five sequences.
Fall 2012 Journalism & Mass Communication Informational Meetings
All meetings will be held in the Armory Building.
| Date | Time | Armory Room Number |
| January 15 | 10:00 a.m. | 1B01 |
| January 17 | 3:30 p.m. | 1B01 |
| January 23 | 2:00 pm | 1B01 |
| January 29 | 10:00 a.m. | 1B01 |
| February 13 | 3:00 p.m. | 1B01 |
| February 21 | 4:00 p.m. | 1B01 |
| March 5 | 10:00 a.m. | 1B01 |
| March 13 | 12:00 p.m. | 1B01 |
| March 18 | 11:00 a.m. | 1B01 |
| April 2 | 10:00 a.m. | 1B01 |
| April 4 | 3:30 p.m. | 1B01 |
| April 10 | 1:00 p.m. | 1B01 |
| April 11 | 3:00 p.m. | 1B01 |
| April 15 | 10:00 a.m. | 1B01 |
| April 17 | 3:00 p.m. | 1B01 |
| April 23 | 10:00 a.m. | 1B01 |
| May 1 | 12:00 p.m. | 1B01 |
Applications for Fall 2013 Admission
The deadline for Fall 2013 admission to the Journalism & Mass Communication program is Wednesday,February 20 at 5 p.m. Applications are available in Armory 116 and should be turned in to the Student Resource Center, Armory 1B11. Indicate desired sequence (advertising, broadcast production, broadcast news, media studies OR news-editorial) on the application. Jeanne Brown and Susan Avila will visit JOUR 2601 and JOUR 2403 classes in January to answer questions about applying to the program.
More about application requirements for the undergraduate program.
Prejournalism Advising
Registration for Spring 2013 began on October 26. Current CU-Boulder students received an e-mail from the Registrar’s office in October telling them how to access their registration dates and times. The prejournalism academic advisers are Susan Avila, Jeanne Brown and Stephen Jones. Contact them at Prejournalism@Colorado.edu.
Getting Media Experience as a Prejournalism Major
Information about noncredit internships, campus media and CU Career Services.