University of Nebraska at Kearney
1998-2000 Undergraduate CATALOG
Journalism and Mass Communication Major
Broadcast Option
Production Management
Bachelor of Arts
FAH BA 3218
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- including General Studies coursework required by major
- English Language minimum = 9
- Humanities minimum = 9
- Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science minimum = 3
- Natural Sciences minimum = 7
- Social and Behavioral Sciences minimum = 9
- Personal Development minimum = 3
- JMC 100GS, Mass Media in America - 3 hours
- BA Language requirement = a minimum of 5
- The BA requires completion of two intermediate or advanced courses in a single modern
language. Students coming to campus having met the admission requirements taking effect in
1997 will typically have a 5-6 hour requirement. Students without two years of high school
language study will typically take 10 hours of first year language before completing this
requirement for intermediate or advanced courses.
- Major Option = 36
- Minor or 2nd Major, minimum = 24
- Minors are 24 hours; 18 must be unduplicated. Electing a second major may add as many as
18 required hours. Should 6 hours of the minor also meet other requirements, the
unrestricted electives will be greater.
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 110
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 15
- Minimum total hours required for BA in Journalism and Mass Communication-Broadcast
Option-Production Management = 125
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for
all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above
taken at a 4-year college or university.
- A. Journalism and Mass Communication-Broadcast Option-Production Management
Requirements (34 hours required)
- Take all of the following:
- JMC 210, Scriptwriting - 3 hours
- JMC 226, Audio Production - 3 hours
- JMC 265, Video Production - 3 hours
- JMC 306, Broadcast Programming - 3 hours
- JMC 310, Communications Law - 3 hours
- JMC 316, Broadcast Advertising - 3 hours
- JMC 336, Radio Workshop: Production - 1 hour
- JMC 338, Radio Workshop: Management - 1 hour
- JMC 343, Television Workshop: Production - 1 hour
- JMC 345, Television Workshop: Management - 1 hour
- JMC 366, Television Direction I - 3 hours
- JMC 376, Broadcast Management - 3 hours
- JMC 427, Advanced Video Production - 3 hours
- JMC 460, Mass Media and Society - 3 hours
- B. Journalism and Mass Communication-Broadcast Option-Production Management Workshop
(2 hours required)
- Take 2 hours from:
- JMC 336, Radio Workshop: Production - 1 hour
- JMC 338, Radio Workshop: Management - 1 hour
- JMC 343, Television Workshop: Production - 1 hour
- JMC 345, Television Workshop: Management - 1 hour