Program Description

The journalism major at Purchase College is designed to provide students with the intellectual bases and skills to gather, assess, and disseminate information and ideas. This equips students for careers in journalism and a wide variety of other fields, including law, government, business, and public relations. Journalism at its best exemplifies the open and honest inquiry that marks the liberal arts and sciences.

Students are offered a central set of skills courses in journalism, electives in specialized areas in a variety of media, and courses that explore the broader context of journalistic practice. Students also take advantage of the broad offerings of Purchase College and are encouraged to have internships. The studies culminate in a senior project, an extended work that allows students to showcase the full range of their talents.

Program Faculty

Requirements for the Major

• Introduction to Media
• History of Journalism
• Journalism I and II
• Freedom and the Media
• Three journalism electives, selected from an approved list of courses
• Five electives in one area of study within the liberal arts and sciences, chosen in consultation with the faculty advisor. (Many students will find it appropriate to earn a minor.)
• Junior Seminar in Journalism
• Senior Project in Journalism

Representative Elective Courses

Advanced Broadcast News
Broadcast Writing
Covering the Arts
Criticism/Reviewing Workshop
Editing and Production Workshop
Environmental Journalism
Feature Writing
First-Person Reporting
International Issues Reporting
Introduction to Broadcast Journalism
Investigative Reporting
Multimedia Tools
Multiple Platform Writing
News Editing
Photojournalism
Race, Gender, and the Media
The Art of Sportswriting
The Beat of Music Journalism
The Literature of Journalism

Representative Alumni

• Jared Albert ’07, publicist at Animal Planet, Discovery Communications
• Jessie Biele ’08, MA candidate in public communication, American University, Washington, D.C.; local editor at Patch.com, Mount Vernon, Va.
• Allison Esposito ’05, MA in interactive media, Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York; Web and media relations manager, Concordia College, Bronxville, N.Y.
• Kyle Kalotschke ’10, Web editor, Verizon Fios 1 News
• Stephen Miraglia ’09, production assistant, WCBS 880 and the New York Yankees Radio Network
• Jessica Ann Mola ’09, content manager, About.com (The New York Times Co.)
• Yuridia Peña ’05, MA student in corporate communications, Baruch College, City University of New York; editorial/communications assistant, CSA News; www.yuridiapena.blogspot.com
• Joshua Pramis ’06, social media editor, American Express Publishing, Travel + Leisure Magazine
• Elizabeth Vulaj ’10, MA in journalism, New York University; JD student, City University of New York School of Law; legal assistant, Brown & Whalen, P.C., New York, N.Y.

For more information, please visit the journalism program site.

Updated Dec. 12, 2012

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