University of Connecticut (Storrs)

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Degree Overview

• This 2-year pre-professional program fulfills the requirements to apply to bachelor's in journalism for 2 further years in UConn's professional program. Alumni have worked at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The St. Petersburg Times, The Detroit Free Press, AP, UPI and ABC News, among other places. 
• Students who study journalism at UConn sharpen their research and critical thinking skills. They strengthen their writing and verbal communication skills and are emboldened to ask questions and challenge authority. A journalism education is an education in non-fiction storytelling, information literacy and civics. It helps students develop and use their individual voices in service to the public.
• At UConn, journalism students don’t just theorize about how to research, interview, write, photograph, record audio and video, and edit. They are expected as part of their coursework to go out and practice these skills in the field, and produce news content that follows professional standards of accuracy and ethics. Diversity is a foundational element in all UConn Journalism courses.
• We strongly recommend all our journalism majors pursue internships before they graduate. We also help our students to get their journalistic work professionally published by local, regional and national news organizations. All journalism majors produce a professional portfolio of their journalistic work through as part of their graduation requirements.