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The Journalism major prepares students for leadership roles in rapidly changing media by requiring a strong core of journalism courses within the rich context of a liberal arts education. Journalism students learn about industry structures, ethics, regulation, media law, history, and about the media鈥檚 role in an increasingly diverse society.

Careers

Career opportunities in Journalism include:

Sports Information Director

Social Media Reporter

E-Book Creator

New Service Writer

Technical Writer

Policy Analyst

Investigative Reporter

Copywriter

Journalism Major

Students develop analytical and critical thinking skills to communicate with audiences across all media platforms. Two areas of interest prepare students for long-term careers as reporters, photographers, videographers, editors, publishers, producers, anchors, social media content managers, or other professions that require experience in writing, reporting, editing, curating, printing, broadcasting, web or social media. All students learn about traditional as well as new media. Capstone experience includes maintaining a daily multimedia blog.

Broadcast/Multimedia

Students gain on-air experience at the student-run radio station through producing, writing and airing daily newscasts and producing a weekly half-hour community affairs broadcast. They produce report and anchor a daily, live newscast for a local cable channel.

Print/Multimedia

Students may write, edit, design and report for the independent, student-run, daily newspaper as well as other campus publications.