• Diploma in Journalism at Conestoga College allows students to complete this program in 3 Years.
  • Students are required to successfully complete two language electives (in one language) in order to graduate.
  • The Journalism program allows students to develop multimedia skills that are used in digital news reporting and storytelling across all media platforms.
  • The first year of the program emphasizes the fundamentals of news writing, research, interviewing, legal and ethical standards, digital news design, and the journalistic use of social media.
  • The main concepts covered under the program are:​
    • Production Technology
    • Research and Interviewing
    • Digital News Design
    • Social Media
    • News Writing
  • Students take courses in photojournalism, as well as audio and video technologies that are vital to telling stories in an online news environment.
  • Students who graduate from this program will receive advanced standing as a Weapons Engineering Technician in the Royal Canadian Navy (subject to successful enrolment in the Canadian Armed Forces).
  • The student to teacher ratio is 15:1 which helps increase in interaction between professors and students.
  • On average, 82% of students from the last three years found employment within six months of graduation.
  • After completing this course, students have career opportunities as
    • Editor
    • Cartoonist
    • Photo Journalist
    • Proof Reader
    • Feature Writer
    • Leader Writer, etc with an average salary of 46,475 USD per year.