Economics and Journalism, BS (Boston)

Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogSocial Sciences HumanitiesBoston129 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source

Official catalog page for this program

Introduction

• One of:
  • ECON 1000 — Economics at Northeastern
  • JRNL 1000 — Journalism at Northeastern

Co-op Course

• One of:
  • EEAM 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op
  • EESH 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op

Required Economics Courses

• ECON 1115 — Principles of Macroeconomics
• ECON 1116 — Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON 2315 — Macroeconomic Theory
• ECON 2316 — Microeconomic Theory
• ECON 2350 — Statistics for Economists
• ECON 2560 — Applied Econometrics

Economics Electives

From the catalog

Complete three electives from the following ranges with one of those courses, at most, at the 1000 level. Unless otherwise noted in specific combined majors, required core economics courses cannot be counted as electives by students completing Department of Economics programs:

ECON 1200 to ECON 1999

ECON 2990 to ECON 3559

ECON 3561 to ECON 4689

ECON 4900 to ECON 4999

ECON 5200 to ECON 5999

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • Any ECON course numbered 1200–1999
  • Any ECON course numbered 2990–3559
  • Any ECON course numbered 3561–4689
  • Any ECON course numbered 4900–4999
  • Any ECON course numbered 5200–5999

Introductory

• JRNL 1150 — Understanding Today’s News

Foundation Courses

From the catalog

A grade of C or higher is required:

• All of:
  • JRNL 1101 — Journalism 1: Fundamentals of Reporting and Writing
  • JRNL 1102 — Journalist’s Toolbox
• JRNL 2201 — Journalism 2: Intermediate Reporting
• JRNL 2301 — Visual Storytelling in Journalism
• JRNL 3610 — Digital Storytelling and Social Media

Law and Ethics

From the catalog

Taking either course fulfills both the capstone requirement and the journalism law and ethics requirement:

• One of:
  • JRNL 3550 — The First Amendment and the Media
  • JRNL 4650 — Ethics and Diversity in the News Media

Journalism Electives

12 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete three JRNL electives.

Calculus

• One of:
  • MATH 1231 — Calculus for Business and Economics
  • MATH 1241 — Calculus 1
  • MATH 1245 — Calculus with Applications
  • MATH 1340 — Intensive Calculus for Engineers
  • MATH 1341 — Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering

Computer Science

From the catalog

Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • All of:
    • CS 2000 — Introduction to Program Design and Implementation
    • CS 2001 — Lab for CS 2000
  • MISM 2510 — Fundamentals of Information Analytics

Integrative Courses

From the catalog

Complete one of the following (may not overlap with courses used for electives):

• One of:
  • JRNL 3680 — Investigative Reporting
  • JRNL 3700 — Data Storytelling

• From the catalog

  Complete one of the following (may not overlap with courses used for electives):

• One of:
  • ECON 1260 — Contested Issues in the U.S. Economy
  • ECON 3423 — Environmental Economics
  • ECON 3440 — Public Finance
  • ECON 3635 — International Economics
  • ECON 4640 — Financial Economics

GPA requirements

• Grades in the following four economics courses must average to a minimum of C (2.000):

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

• EEAM 2000 ↔ EESH 2000 (tier B)
• MATH 1231 ↔ MATH 1241 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1251 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1341 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1245 (tier C)
• MATH 1241 ↔ MATH 1340 (tier C)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under economics-and-journalism-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.