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Professionals with a minimum of seven years’ journalistic experience may apply to this three-quarter graduate journalism track at Medill, with an option to complete a fourth quarter.

The track provides experienced professionals with new ways of thinking about communications – journalistic and otherwise – in the digital age; new skills; and new career possibilities.

Graduation requirements:

• You will take 12 Northwestern credits at the graduate level
• At least 9 credits must be classes offered in Journalism, Integrated Marketing Communications or Media Management **
• You take seven core classes:
  
  

  Audience understanding: JOUR 455 or IMC 451 or IMC 455 Marketing: MEDM 431 or IMC 452 Media Management: MEDM 432 or JOUR 461 or IMC 461 Finance IMC 450 or equivalent Digital/Interactive: JOUR 490 or JOUR 405 Content: pick 1 from Content Creation concentration list Innovation: pick 1 from Innovation concentration list

• You complete a concentration (3 classes) in one of the following:

**Journalism (JOUR) course descriptions are here.
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) course descriptions are here.
Media Management (MEDM) course descriptions arehere.