After JOUR 210
Gateway: JOUR 210
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Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Generated from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate JOUR coursework.
Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate JOUR work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.
Showing the 21 JOUR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 42 more JOUR courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on JOUR, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
College Orientation1 required
Required Major Coursesall required
Skills Courses2 required · verify with the official sheet
Select four of the following:
Context Coursesall required
Select three of the following:
Journalism Electives6 required · verify with the official sheet
Any Journalism course. Courses from the list above not used to complete requirements may be taken as electives.
Statistical Methods Course (Choose 1)all required
or other approved basic statistical methods course, which currently includes ECON 202 , PSYC 235 , SOC 280 , and SOCW 225
All ofall required
Media Electives - 300- or 400-level; Advertising (ADV), Journalism (JOUR), Media and Cinema Studies (MACS), or Media (MDIA) coursework at the 300- or 400-level; Media Electives - Any Level; Any Advertising (ADV), Journalism (JOUR), Media and Cinema Studies (MACS), or Media (MDIA) course not already counting toward a requirement above.
1 course from1 required
Choose 1
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in JOUR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
5 courses deep, ending at JOUR 217
4 courses deep, ending at JOUR 335
2 courses deep, ending at JOUR 410
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
Media Electives (any ADV, JOUR, MACS, or MDIA course)9 required
1 course from1 required
Total Hours15 required
All JOUR courses in the UIUC catalog
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