Journalism

This certificate is designed for students with or without a four-year degree who want to develop journalistic writing skills. This series of classes teaches people how to research beyond Google, report fact-based information, and understand media literacy. This program requires students to write for the campus newspaper website, social media and its print magazine. The curriculum requires students to create news-based multimedia projects such as informational graphics, photo slideshows and video packages. This certificate concludes with a student internship that could lead to a job in journalism, social media and other communications fields.

Learning Outcome(s):

1. Identify the four ethical guidelines from the Society of Professional Journalists and apply them to analyze scenarios related to ethical challenges of journalism. Assessment Tool: Exam
2. Create journalistic print, audio, video, and multimedia content full of fact-based information. Assessment Tool: Portfolio
3. Report and research fact-based information that they can effectively and quickly disseminate to the public. Assessment Tool: Portfolio