Guidelines for Journalism Students

Journalism students must make an appointment with both a Study Abroad advisor and a Journalism advisor if they wish to study abroad. Students should go to the Study Abroad advisor first to talk about programs. Then, the students must make an appointment with the Journalism advisor who will provide the student with an audit which will allow the student to see his/her remaining degree requirements. In addition, the Journalism advisor and the student will be able to plan out the student's remaining semesters.

It is important that Journalism students know that they cannot take Journalism courses abroad unless those courses are in an ACEJMC approved program or those courses are taught by UMD Journalism faculty. Currently, the only international Journalism program approved by ACEJMC is Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Similarly, there is only one abroad program that is taught by Journalism faculty at the moment- the Salzburg Academy Program on Media and Global Change. For information on the Salzburg program, please visit the program website.

Due to these restrictions on Journalism courses, most Journalism students use the opportunity to complete the language portion of their Abstract Thinking Skills requirement or to complete some of their Upper Level Requirements. However, Journalism students need to make an appointment with a Journalism advisor to be certain of which requirements they still need to fulfill.