Best minor for a Journalism major?

Question

I'm a journalism major and I'm pretty much done with most of my upper divisions. I'm required to have a minor but I have so many interests that I can't choose! I don't want to waste any more semesters, so here's what it comes down to. I'm very interested in international affairs. I love reading about old and modern politics, and world and western history fascinates me. But my passion really is philosophy (I've read Nietzche, Sartre and Derrida). I love applying philosophy in politics...

But right now I'm also minoring in French language (and maybe Spanish later) and I really must choose only one minor from the following: History, Philosophy, Political Science or Sociology.

As much as I want to minor and maybe even major on all of these, I just want to get my bachelor's right now... so I could just go to grad school ASAP. Heh. And then MAYBE go back to school later to concentrate one of the minors I just mentioned.

Answer 1

Photography. Computers. Actual mechanical production of newspapers. How does what you write as a journalist actually get into a form that people can comprehend?

Answer 2

I suggest just go with what you think you'll need in your career.

I'm a journalism major minoring textile and apparel management because I want to work for a fashion magazine.

Answer 3

I was a history major in college, before becoming a managing editor at my hometown newspaper.

Honestly, the major will not matter that much outside of the methodology classes teaching you to write a specific way.

History showed me privary vs. secondary source research and writing methods which have served me well. I also took numerous 6-700 level Poli Sci classes, and any one of those fields should serve you just as well as another, unless you are looking to write for a field-specific journal.

Answer 4

Of the ones you mentioned, either political science or history.  

Of the ones you didn't mention, consider learning something about graphics.  Geography wouldn't hurt either.  But really, everything you learn can be helpful.  

In the U.S., learning some Spanish would certainly be a plus as well.  

Answer 5

If you wish to become a "Foreign Correspondent" (as you are interested in international affairs) then I would go for Politics, history and several languages, especially of the region you are most interested in

As you are asking which of the four subjects, then I would choose "History" as history would include the politics and sociology of the area you are taking your history in.

Answer 6

radio and television

Answer 7

History.

Answer 8

I think the Political Science would help you the most in a journalism career.