The Photojournalism major seeks to provide students with valuable photography, video and audio skills. The curriculum draws upon the expertise of the college’s Journalism, Documentary Film, and Photography programs, and students learn to report and document news and features on various multimedia platforms; faculty practice award-winning photo and video journalism.

As a result of successfully completing program requirements, students should be able to:

• demonstrate the highest standards of photojournalism to document history accurately and ethically;
• produce tightly focused and compelling breaking news, news features and news documentaries, using still images, video, and audio as the assignment and situation demand;
• report and write accurate short articles, descriptive text and captions using clear, forceful, grammatically correct English;
• capture and create high production value video with technical proficiency in any environment and on deadline; and
• capture and create high production value audio with technical proficiency in any environment and on deadline.