Program Details
For those who wish to gain an in-depth understanding of world culture and history while studying journalism, Carleton offers a Bachelor of Journalism and Humanities degree. Students in this intensive degree program spend about 40 per cent of their time taking core journalism courses. They receive professional training in writing and reporting, professional ethics and media law, and learn the skills appropriate to newspaper, radio, television and new media journalism. BJ-Hum students spend the rest of their time studying art history, classics, literature, philosophy, political science and religion. Few degree programs provide such a balance between focus and breadth.
The Journalism and Humanities degree is offered jointly by Carleton’s Great Books Program in the College of the Humanities and by the School of Journalism and Communication.
Work Experience
Professional apprenticeships allow you to put your skills to practical use.
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Career Outcomes
Explore your passions, refine new skills and discover the career that’s right for you.
Through the Journalism and Humanities program, you can train for a career while indulging your love of Great Books.
Sample Courses
JOUR 1001 - Foundations: Journalism in Context
This course charts a history of the fourth estate in the West from the invention of the printing press to the ascendance of networked digital communication, focusing on the political, economic and technological contexts that have shaped the news media as institutions and industries.
HIST 1302 - Rethinking Modern Canadian History
This course explores how major political, economic, legal, social, and cultural changes shaped modern-day Canada from the late 1800s to the present. It provides context for contemporary issues, including colonialism, redress, reconciliation, race relations, migration and urbanization, globalization, technology, and the environment.
Visit the Undergraduate Calendar to view a comprehensive list of course offerings for this program and discover the exciting things Carleton students are learning in the classroom!
Carleton's Bachelor of Journalism and Humanities is one-of-a-kind. Through Journalism, I completed an internship at CBC Montreal's afternoon radio show, Let's Go. This opportunity sent me right into the fray, chasing stories with same-day deadlines and pitching my own ideas. For my final Humanities project, I wrote a dialogue on the discourse of loneliness, engaging with Oba Yozo from Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human and 20th-century philosophers like Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt. Thanks to intimate and small class sizes, you can have meaningful conversations with kind and intelligent professors who are always happy to chat and guide you toward your passions.
