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Annenberg School for Communication M322
(213) 740-3914
FAX: (213) 740-8624
E-mail: undergraduate: ascund@bcf.usc.edu
graduate: jourgrad@bcf.usc.edu

Director: Murray Fromson

Faculty

Professors:: Ed Cray, B.A.; Murray Fromson (Co-director, Center for International Journalism); A.J. Langguth, B.A.; Bryce Nelson, M.Phil.*; Joe Saltzman, M.S.*; Clancy Sigal, B.A.

Associate Professors: Carolyn Cline, Ph.D.; William R. Faith, Ph.D.; Jonathan Kotler, J.D.*; Sherrie Mazingo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor:: Marianna Edmunds, M.A.

Visiting Professor:: Edwin O. Guthman, B.A.

Lecturer:: Edwin Reingold, B.A. (Co-director, Center for International Journalism)

*Recipient of university-wide or college teaching award.

Degree Programs

The School of Journalism offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in Print Journalism, Broadcast Journalism, Public Relations and combined majors in Journalism/East Asian Studies and Journalism/Russian. At the graduate level, Master of Arts degrees are awarded in Print Journalism, Broadcast Journalism, Public Relations and International Journalism. The Print Journalism sequence emphasizes not only the skills of newswriting, reporting and editing, but also the role of a free press in a democracy and the historical, legal and ethical aspects of journalism. The Broadcast and Public Relations sequences provide the same basic foundation as Print Journalism, while addressing their own particular disciplines. Broadcast students learn the creative aspects of news, documentary and public affairs programming, while Public Relations students focus on public relations theory and techniques, opinion research and analysis and case studies.

The school stresses a broad-based liberal arts education to enhance writing and reporting, and encourages undergraduate students to pursue minors in disciplines outside the school. In addition to offering an international study program in Europe, the school also provides special reporting classes in business, public affairs, international affairs, science and the arts.

The school advises its students to participate in at least two internships. The school's Career Advisement Office has listings for paid and non-paid internships from around the country. All journalism majors should plan to write for the university newspaper, the Daily Trojan, and/or participate in the writing, reporting and production of the school's weekly newsmagazine show, IMPACT. No academic credit is given for participation in internships or cocurricular activities.

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