Minor in Journalism Craft Your Story
Enhance Your Communication Skills with Liberty’s Online Minor in Journalism
Whether you’re majoring in a related field like creative writing or you want to complement another unrelated degree, our online journalism minor can help enhance your educational experience. Liberty University’s 100% online Minor in journalism can facilitate the strengthening of your communication skills through a multitude of media.
Our online journalism courses can help provide you with a wide swath of writing-related competencies while still allowing you to pursue the degree that interests you most. Whether your goal is to work in news, social media, education, or another field, a Minor in Journalism is a great way to add a new set of useful abilities to your online degree program.
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Why Choose Liberty University’s Online Minor in Journalism?
You might be wondering what you can do with a Minor in Journalism. You can learn the best ways to utilize the skills you obtain in Liberty’s journalism minor based on the knowledge our professors have gained through real-world experience. When you enter the workforce, these additional abilities can help equip you for a variety of communication tasks.
Our journalism minor includes a series of online courses that can enhance your critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills while teaching you current journalistic standards and industry practices. Furthermore, you can gain insight into how the future of writing is changing and how to communicate in the digital age. You can practice writing for various mediums, including the newsroom, press releases, and public relations materials. Each course within the program is taught from a Christian perspective, providing you with insight into biblically based concepts of the field of journalism.
What Will You Study in Our Online Journalism Minor Classes?
Liberty University’s journalism minor has been developed to give you a significant amount of flexibility in the overall scope of your journalism education. You can gain fundamental skills in journalism and learn how to record and report information through various media. You will also have the choice of exploring audio or video production or obtaining abilities in graphic design or digital promotions.
Depending on what your professional or personal goals are, you can study sports writing, social media, editorial writing, and more. Our Media Convergence course allows you to develop news stories using a variety of traditional and social media, so you can prepare material suitable for a portfolio.
Additionally, you can gain hands-on experience writing localized content in our Community Reporting course. Combining these various areas of focus with a concentration on advanced grammar skills and proofreading can offer you a minor that will enhance any major you may choose. Whether you are publishing articles for a science journal or writing copy for a marketing firm, this minor can be a stepping stone to success.
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Tuition & Aid
At Liberty University, a private Christian education is less expensive than you think. Over the last 10 years, Liberty University’s Online Program has only raised its standard tuition costs by less than 5% – and most of our online tuition rates rank in the top 35% for affordability for 2025 when compared to our leading online competitors.
To continue our mission of providing affordable education, electronic textbooks are provided for all undergraduate courses at no additional cost to you. As a full-time student, this could save you an estimated $800-2,000 per year on textbooks!
| Undergraduate Full Time | $390/Credit |
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| Undergraduate Part Time | $455/Credit |
| Military Undergraduate | $250/Credit |
These rates are reflective of academic year 2025-2026. Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.
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Liberty University is dedicated to providing world-class educational experiences to military students across the globe.
Who May Qualify?
- Active Duty
- Reserve/National Guard
- Veterans/Retirees
- Spouses of Service Members and Veterans/Retirees
- Current Department of Defense Employees
Available Benefits:
- Tuition discounts – $250 per credit hour for undergraduate courses
- Additional discount for veterans who serve in a civilian capacity as a First Responder (less than $565 per course)*
- 8-week courses, 8 different start dates each year, and no set login times (may exclude certain courses such as practicums, internships, or field experiences)
- Potential college credit for military training
*Not applicable to certificates.
These rates are reflective of academic year 2025-2026. Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.
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