Jun 16, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

Sports Media, BS Major in


The Bachelor of Science in Sports Media is a 72-credit major combining theory and practice across various sports media coursework. Students must complete required core coursework in studies, writing, production, and performance before choosing different electives in these areas. Students must also take at least one internship to complete their program requirements.  

A grade of C- or better is required for all courses in the major; students may not take a course for which they receive less than a C- in a pre-requisite; any given course can only satisfy a single category; no more than six s.h. of internship credits, overall (regardless of program affiliation), can count for the major. 

BS Sports Media students must take 72 Liberal Arts credits. Completing required Liberal Arts classes outside and inside the major will not be sufficient to reach that minimum amount. Additional Liberal Arts classes will need to be taken. Close monitoring is required to ensure this graduation requirement is met. 

Based on 30 credits of general requirements and 72 credits in the major, 22 credits are available as free electives. This allows for taking an optional non-LHSC minor if a student chooses. A minor can be Liberal Arts-based or not, including Zarb School of Business minors such as Marketing. Minors in LHSC are not allowed. 

(Note: There are 51 semester hours in LHSC Foundation & Media Core courses. 18-24 of them are Liberal Arts.)

Program Requirements - Total Semester Hours: 72


LHSC Foundation (9 - Semester Hours):


Sports Media Studies Core (6 - Semester Hours)


Students must choose two courses under advisement. 

Media Writing Core (9 - Semester Hours):


Media Production Core (21 - Semester Hours):


Media Performance Core (3 - Semester Hours):


Students must choose one under advisement.

Media Studies Electives (6 - Semester Hours; choose two courses, under advisement):


Students must choose two (2) courses under advisement. 

Media Writing Electives (3 - Semester Hours; choose one course, under advisement):


Media Performance Electives (3 - Semester Hours; choose one course, under advisement):


(NOTE: there are 18 semester hours in Media Electives; depending on elective choices, 0-6 credits of them are Liberal Arts.)    

LHSC Internship (3 - Semester Hours, chosen under advisement):


Internships can be taken in 1, 2, or 3-semester hour increments, either all from one discipline (i.e., JRNL, RTVF, PR, and MASS) or across the multiple disciplines in the School of Communication.  

These combinations allow students to get credit for as many internships as they would like to take and to be advised by faculty in as many areas of the Herbert School of Communication as they prefer.

(NOTE: there are 3 semester hours in Internships; all credits are Liberal Arts.) 

Communication BS Program Requirements


BS Requirements for The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication majors. All students in the LHSC of Communication must take the following courses: