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.

Fall 2009 Prejournalism Change of Major meetings.

All meetings will be held in Armory 1B01

October 22, 4 p.m.

October 26, 10 a.m.

October 29, 3:30 p.m.

November 2, 4 p.m.

November 4, 10 a.m.

November 10, 9:30 a.m.

November 12, 4 p.m.

November 18, 4 p.m.

November 20, 1 p.m.

December 1, 10 a.m.

December 7, 10 a.m.

Applications for Spring 2010 Admission
Deadline for Spring 2010 admission to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication is Monday, Oct. 5, 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 in September to answer questions about applying to the School.

More about application requirements for the undergraduate program.

Prejournalism Advising
Registration for Spring 2010 begins on Oct. 26. Current CU-Boulder students will receive an e-mail from the Registrar's office in October telling them how to access their registration dates and times. The prejournalism academic advisers are Susan Avila, Jeanne Meyer-Brown and Stephen Jones. Contact them at Prejournalism@Colorado.edu.

More information on advising

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