Finding Success on the Front Page and Behind the Scenes
"I never thought in a million years that my name would be on the front page of The Washington Post, especially while I am still an undergraduate."
Justine Coleman, Class of 2019
Journalism and Mass Communication
In our classrooms, computer labs and broadcast studio, our faculty of award-winning journalists and academics teach students to report, produce and write for all forms of media. Classes include database and multi-platform reporting, investigative journalism and studio production. The curriculum also focuses on the role journalism and media play in civic and political life.
The Journalism and Mass Communication major and minor provide students with practical skills and an academic background in the role and effects of journalism and media messages. The program emphasizes analysis and critical thinking as students pursue the practical study of media and journalism, media law, history, processes, ethics and effects.
Students interested in the Journalism and Mass Communication minor should fill out a declaration form (.PDF), declaring the minor before the end of their junior year. The SMPA advisor for JMC minors is Professor Lee Huebner.
Degree Requirements
Student Stories
Behind the Scenes at ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’
"You’re going all over the city on errands, which is pretty sweaty in the summer, but you don’t care because there’s no one you’d rather be doing it for. There’s no job too small in this industry."
Gillian Horn, Class of 2019