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Jan 15, 2025
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2024-2025 Catalog
Professional Studies AS - Journalism Option
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Code: AS.PS.JOUR
The Journalism option includes courses in introductory journalism, media writing, copy editing and print journalism production, the last of which helps produce The Torch, the student newspaper of Bergen Community College. In addition to teaching students the skills needed to report, write and edit news for print media, broadcast and the Web, it links the students and the wider campus community through the student newspaper.
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
- Write clear, concise, accurate and interesting news stories, as well as crisp, accurate and compelling advertising and public relations copy.
- Demonstrate basic skills and techniques in news-gathering and news-writing.
- Demonstrate an understanding of major legal and ethical issues in journalism.
- Develop appropriate style through writing, revision and editing.
- Design and lay-out print news publications.
CAREER PATHWAYS
| Communication Teachers, postsecondary |
Reporter, Correspondent |
Radio or Television Announcer |
| News Analyst |
Editor |
Public Relations |
| Content Specialist |
Writer |
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Recommended Semester Sequence
General Education Requirements
Humanities Electives *
Two general education courses selected from the following fields, with no more than one course in any one field: Arts (Art [ART], Music [MUS], Theatre Arts [THR], Cinema Studies [CIN]); History (HIS); Interdisciplinary (WGS); Literature (LIT); Philosophy and Religion (PHR); World Languages and Cultures (LAN)
Social Science Elective *
One general education course selected from the following fields: Economics (ECO); Geography (GEO); Political Science (POL); Psychology (PSY); Sociology (SOC) and Anthropology (ANT)
Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology Electives *
- Mathematics: One 3-credit general education course in Mathematics (MAT) and a 1 cr. course in Information Technology (INF) or a 4 cr. general education course in Mathematics 4 Credit(s)
- Natural Science Electives: Two general education courses to be selected from the following fields: Biology (BIO), Chemistry (CHM), Physics (PHY) 8 Credit(s)
Free Electives **
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