We offer a curriculum with these learning goals:

• Communicate to various public audiences with clarity and precision, using the most effective combination of images, sounds and words, and applying the most appropriate contemporary technologies.

• Gather information, through research, observation and interviews, and evaluate what is gathered.

• Acquire expertise in a particular subject and use that expertise to communicate clearly to various public audiences.

• Base journalistic work on such enduring ethical principles as accountability, fairness, accuracy, responsibility and diversity.

• Think analytically, critically and creatively about the social, historical, economic and scientific forces that underlie daily events, in order to provide appropriate context in the reporting of daily events.

• Apply the laws of freedom of expression, in both the United States and in a global media setting.

• Blend entrepreneurial strategies with journalistic enterprise to enable success in a fast-changing economic environment.