Students who intend to apply to the school complete their freshman year of undergraduate work (a minimum of 30 semester hours) typically in the College of Arts and Sciences as prejournalism and mass communication majors. Students may be eligible to apply to the school during the second semester of their freshman year for admission as sophomores to one of the five sequences: advertising, broadcast news, broadcast production, media studies and news-editorial.

Students admitted to the College of Arts and Sciences as prejournalism majors and transfers are required to attend an orientation session prior to their first semester at CU Boulder.

Current CU students who are not prejournalism majors, but wish to apply to the school must attend one of the following change of major meetings to learn more about the application requirements and to declare prejournalism as a major. All meetings will be in Armory 1B01.

January
Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 10 a.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 11 a.m.
Monday, Jan. 28, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1 p.m.

February
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 4 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 11, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 10 a.m.

March
Wednesday, March 5, 11 a.m.
Thursday, March 13, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, March 18, 12:30 p.m.

April
Tuesday, April 1, 1 p.m.
Wednesday, April 2, 11 a.m.
Monday, April 7, 4 p.m.
Wednesday, April 9, 10 a.m.
Wednesday, April 16, 10:30 a.m.
Friday, April 18, 1p.m.
Wednesday, April 23, 11:30 a.m.
Thursday, April 24, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, April 29, 1 p.m.

Applications for Fall 2008 Admission
Deadline for Fall 2008 admission to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication is Wednesday, February 20, at 5 p.m. Applications are available in Armory 116 and should be turned in to the Student Resource Center, Armory 1B11. Indicate desired major sequence (advertising, broadcast production, broadcast news, media studies OR news-editorial) on the application. Jeanne Brown and Susan Avila will visit JOUR 2601 and JOUR 2403 classes the week of January 28 to answer questions about applying to the School.

More about College of Arts and Science advising and orientation sessions.

Apply to the University of Colorado at Boulder.

More about application requirements for the undergraduate program.

Prejournalism Advising
Registration for Fall 2008 begins March 31. Prejournalism students will receive an e-mail from the registrar's office in late February telling them how to access their registration dates and times. Summer registration begins March 5. The prejournalism student advisers are Susan Avila, Armory 1B15, Susan.Avila@colorado.edu, Jeanne Meyer-Brown, Armory 1B12, Jeanne.Brown@Colorado.edu and Stephen Jones, Armory 1B19, Stephen.Jones@Colorado.edu.

More information on advising

Getting Media Experience as a Prejournalism Major
Information about noncredit internships, campus media and CU Career Services.