The Journalism Major is offered in three choices: Chinese Journalism, International Journalism and Financial Journalism. All choices share a core of Required and Elective Courses dealing with the activities and responsibilities of the print, broadcast and internet journalist. Each choice requires bilingualism, but stresses the particular language and professional skills appropriate for the specialist in Chinese, International or Financial journalism.

Students in the Journalism Major pursue studies in three major areas: (1) professional journalism, in which students learn the principles and skills of gathering, presenting, and producing news and current affairs; (2) the theoretical foundations of the profession, in which students develop a conceptual understanding of the profession and its role in society through legal, ethical, political, historical, economic and media communication theory courses; and (3) complementary studies of the relationship between broadcast or print or internet journalism and society as well as the way politics, government, business, and law operate in both local and international communities. In all these areas, emphasis is in Hong Kong and mainland China, with due attention to the international context in which both communities operate.

All students are expected to undertake a professional internship during the summer following the third year. Students in each choice have elective courses in which to explore aspects of journalism in greater depth or to increase their knowledge of some specialized type of reporting. In their final semester students integrate their conceptual and practical knowledge in the Honours Project.