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Career preparation and understanding of the mass communications media are two significant benefits of majoring in this discipline. Undergraduates are able to choose from among three emphases: news-editorial, telecommunications, and public relations and advertising media. Professionally experienced, academically qualified faculty members in each emphasis provide opportunities for instruction and skills enhancement. Modern facilitates include a closed-circuit radio station, a color TV studio, a reading room, and a computerized news writing lab.

Students who complete a journalism degree program will have demonstrated:

• Ability to consult primary and secondary sources of information, and experience, analyze, and evaluate resultant information and ideas.

• Analysis and evaluation of public knowledge, public opinion, audience need, audience interests.

• Ability to serve the public interest, which may include, but is not limited to, commercial interest.

• Skill in drafting and editing or rewriting news copy, news releases, scripts, storyboards, treatment synopses, media plans or production plans.

• The application of rules, standards, conventions, and guidelines of formatting, copy writing, editing, and graphic design.

• Ability to acquire and organized necessary materials, equipment, and personnel for specific tasks.

• Ability to shoot and edit video and audio tape, rehearse, perform air checks, construct page dummies, and modify content as needed.

• Ability to write a final news story or components of media plans, or produce radio or television programs.

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Telephone :
(970) 351.2726
FAX :
(970) 351.2519

Postal address:
Candelaria Hall 1265
Campus Box 114
Greeley, CO 80639

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