Associate of Arts - Journalism

The Journalism program seeks to prepare students to enter the workforce in journalism and its related fields (such as public relations and advertising) and to offer job retraining to matriculated students making a career switch or needing to meet the changing technological demands of the field. The program also seeks to prepare students to transfer to four-year institutions as journalism majors and to train them to be media-literate members of the community.

Instruction is supplemented by hands-on experience working for the students newspaper, The Skyline View, a bi-weekly publication. They also attend local and regional conferences and have opportunities to pursue internships and jobs in the field.

The degree and certificate programs prepare the students for such careers as newspaper and magazine reporting, writing, and editing; technical writing; copyediting; advertising; and public relations.