Journalism & Digital Media
Program Structure
Below is a sample Journalism & Digital Media program overview. For a more specific program overview, consult the Academic Catalog for your year.
Patrick Henry College structures its academic program around its distinctive, classical liberal arts Core Curriculum consisting of 63 credits plus foreign language. Building on the foundation of PHC’s exceptional Core, Journalism & Digital Media students will take:
17 credits of Journalism & Digital Media courses
12 credits of apprenticeship courses
Major Courses (44 credits)
Journalism & Digital Media Courses
(17 credits)
Intro to Journalism
Digital Design I
Journalism History
Multimedia Skills
Narrative Nonfiction
Media Law
Faith & Reason Integration Essay
Apprenticeship Courses
(12 credits)
Student Media Production
Off-Campus Journalism Internship
Major Electives
(15 credits; choose any combination of the following)
Student Media Production
Digital Design II
Political Journalism
Public Relations
Digital Storytelling
Off-campus Journalism Internship
Freelance Journalism Internship
Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Business Methods & Entrepreneurship
Creative Writing
American Political Institutions
U.S. Intellectual History
Historiography
C.S. Lewis
The Novel
Major Twentieth Century Authors
Modern & Contemporary Political Theory
Conservative Political Theory
Applied Research in Political Theory:
Democracy’s Prospects & Challenges
Open Electives
(15 credits)
Credit earned in the attainment of foreign language ability may be applied to Open Electives.
