The school enrolls 600 sophomores, juniors and seniors in five sequences. Students begin with a broad education in the liberal arts and finish with superior professional preparation and media studies instruction. Most students take advantage of the school’s extensive internship listings to obtain significant media experiences.

In addition to the required courses, the school offers all students a wide range of classes in many aspects of media practice including photojournalism, electronic and digital journalism, advertising creative development, consumer behavior, publication design, magazine article writing, public relations principles and projects and communication law.

Media criticism and analysis are also broadly represented in the curriculum through courses such as media institutions and economics, media ethics, mass communication history, international mass communication and special-topics offerings.

Students who intend to apply to the school complete their freshman year of undergraduate work (a minimum of 30 semester hours) typically in the College of Arts and Sciences as prejournalism and mass communication majors. Read Information for prejournalism students.

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Upon completion of their studies in the school, students receive a bachelor of science degree in journalism from one of five sequences.

• Advertising
• Broadcast News
• Broadcast Production
• Media Studies
• News-Editorial

Global Media Certificate