The concentration in Data Journalism at DePaul focuses on reporting stories through data and non-linear storytelling. It enables students to cover many of our major social problems—crime, poverty, access to health care, homelessness, and various forms of abuse—through social science reporting, data mining and visualization. The concentration's objectives are to find and report important stories by integrating classic journalistic values of fairness, balance and impartiality with the values of digitalization and open-source culture. Graduates will be prepared to find jobs in the rapidly growing marketplace of publications that combine journalism and cutting-edge technology. Students must take two core courses (8 credits) and two elective courses (8 credits).
Core Courses
Course List | Course | Title | Quarter Hours |
| 8 |
| DATA JOURNALISM | |
| JOURNALISM BY NUMBERS | |
Elective Courses
Course List | Course | Title | Quarter Hours |
| 8 |
| PLACES, HUMANITIES AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS | |
| GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | |
| GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT | |
| EARTH OBSERVATION II | |
| WEB GIS AND SPATIAL DATA VISUALIZATION ON THE WEB | |
| ADVANCED MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM | |
| MULTIPLATFORM NEWS EDITING | |
| ONLINE NEWSROOM | |
| INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING | |
| SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE NEWS | |
| INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING | |
| DATA ANALYSIS AND REGRESSION | |
| DATABASE PROCESSING FOR LARGE-SCALE ANALYTICS | |
| DATA VISUALIZATION | |
| SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS | |
| STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS | |