The journalism major prepares students to work as professionals in the field, and they will learn the essential elements of reporting, writing and producing news and features for a variety of media, including print, broadcast and online. Students will complete two semesters in a student-run news organization, including the university?s award-winning Journal and may elect to complete an internship with a professional news organization.

Successful graduates of this program will be able to:

• Identify and evaluate potential news stories that will impact, inform and engage a defined audience.
• Construct the most compelling and effective ways to tell a story based upon an analysis of purpose, audience and available media. This includes taking advantage of multimedia to tell stories in a global context in more complete and meaningful ways.
• Gather and evaluate the validity and reliability of information as well as to evaluate the veracity of the sources from which information comes through