Both Journalism emphases provide students with the knowledge and skills to communicate effectively through the traditional print and broadcast media as well as the developing digital/on-line media. Skills emphasized for both types of media include information gathering, writing, and presentation/ dissemination techniques. Students completing the emphasis in Broadcast Journalism take the Mass Communication five-course core plus audio production and performance, an introductory visual communication course, beginning single camera/nonlinear editing, television studio production, broadcast journalism writing and reporting, television news producing and reporting, and two Mass Communication electives.
Those in the Print Journalism emphasis complete the Mass Communication core courses plus reporting, editing, on-line journalism, a practicum, and two Mass Communication electives. Other required Mass Communication courses in this emphasis are Mass Media Messages and Effects and Changing Roles in Mass Media. The practicum ensures that every print-journalism student works on one of the major student media. Computer skills are necessary for all Journalism students.