An Optional Specialization for Communication Majors

Champlain College's Journalism specialization teaches students how to become knowledgeable and dexterous journalists in a variety of media; print, online, digital, and broadcast.

Matched with a Communication degree, the Journalism specialization gives students a highly specialized skill set that will provide a distinctive advantage in the job market.

• Learn the fundamental skills of journalism, including proper interview techniques, meeting deadlines, and researching in the three primary types of narrative form: news, features, and news-features.
  
  
• Take advantage of the digital age to incorporate audio and visuals in your writing for webcasts and podcasts.
  
  
• Learn the difference between a blog and a news blog, and the role social media plays in the field.
  
  
• Learn professional codes of conduct, artistic and social responsibility, and the issues surrounding privacy, freedom of expression and public interest.
  
  
• Run both of the student newspapers, complete with a student editorial board, with a goal of publishing online bi-weekly and distributing monthly print papers.
  
  
• Courses toward the end of the specialization sequence will have a specific emphasis on the creative and intellectual approach to journalism.

COURSES IN THIS SPECIALIZATION CURRENTLY INCLUDE:

• WRT 200 - Fundamentals of Journalism
• WRT 205 - Writing & Producing Online Journalism
• WRT 340 - Advanced Journalism Practicum: Writing
• WRT 341 - Advanced Journalism Practicum: Editing
• COM 220 - Communication & Ethics
• MCM 315 - Contemporary Media Issues
• MCM 360 - Legal Issues in Communication
• MCM 206 - Photojournalism
• MCM 230 - Social Media Production