Journalism and Media Studies, B.S.
School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts
Program Overview
Unlock your potential in the fast-evolving world of journalism and media studies at 今日吃瓜. Our program equips you with the essential tools for cross-platform storytelling, ensuring you’re ready to tackle today鈥檚 media challenges head-on. Imagine honing your skills in our cutting-edge radio, video, and multimedia labs, as well as our multicamera television studio. You’ll graduate not just with knowledge, but with an impressive portfolio that showcases your creativity and expertise. If you’re eager to further your education, we offer a 4+1 program with CUNY鈥檚 Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism where you to earn a master鈥檚 degree in just one year.
Major Details
The program information listed here reflects the approved curriculum for the 2026鈥�27 academic year per the 今日吃瓜 Bulletin. Bulletins from past academic years can be found here.
Major Description
NYSED Program Code: 83638
The journalism and media studies program encourages students to develop a critical, ethical, and deliberative paradigm for the practice of journalism as a public service. We seek to cultivate proficiencies in storytelling across platforms and subject areas, and inspire our students to embrace the potential for innovation that exists in our media environment.
Program Goals
Students will:
- develop critical thinking skills and a healthy skepticism about the ocean of information in which we live,
- become well informed about the entrepreneurial nature of the contemporary media environment, and
- become capable communicators with the ability to tell stories using the tools most appropriate for the subject, guided by principles that maximize media literacy.
Major Requirements (48 Credits)
I. All of the following:
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II. Nine credits from the following:
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III. Six credits from the following:
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The department chair or program director may, with the approval of the chair of the department’s undergraduate curriculum committee, allow substitutions for one or more required classes consistent with the educational goals of the program.
Residency Requirement
The Journalism and Media Studies major requires that 18 credits be taken in residency at 今日吃瓜. The use of transfer or other course credit is prohibited for TREM 聽Journalism and Society, TREM聽聽Digital News Laboratory and TREM聽聽Capstone in Journalism and Media Studies (6 credit Capstone) + one other course in the major 3000 level or up.
Academic Standing
All courses used to meet these degree requirements must be completed with a grade of C or higher. No course in this curriculum may be taken more than twice for the purposes of degree advancement.
4+1 Program: Journalism, M.A.
The Journalism and Media Studies program offers a 4+1 program with CUNY鈥檚 Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
How It Works
Students apply at the end of their junior year at 今日吃瓜 and, if accepted, begin graduate work at the J-School during their senior year at 今日吃瓜. After graduation students matriculate directly into Newmark for a year, earning their bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 in five years of study.
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Student Learning Outcomes
- Understand the civic nature of journalism, including its history and political economy.
- Recognize, articulate, and practice ethical principles of communication that transcend professionalization.
- Develop and practice a platform-agnostic understanding of the power of quality storytelling.
- Demonstrate high ability in platform-agnostic writing, visual, or aural communication through the production of relevant content.
- Critically assess, analyze, investigate, and organize information in an ethical and civically responsible manner.
- Engage analytically and expressively with a multiplicity of media forms.
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Internships and Employers
Through job fairs, the internship database, and internship panels, the Magner Career Center gives students in the journalism and media studies B.S. program access to career opportunities at a wide variety of media outlets and companies, including:
- Complex
- ESPN
- Media Makers NYC
- MSNBC News
- New York Amsterdam News
- New York Daily News
- News12
- NY1 News
- Sirius XM
- WABC
- The Wave
- WNYC Radio
