Degree Type: Associate of Arts Degree, AA
Pathway: Arts & Humanities
Program Length: 4 Semesters
Location: Centennial, Rampart Range
Transferability: Transferable, Guaranteed Transfer (GT)
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Journalists witness and record our lives and history. In the current technological era, learning how to write and develop an expertise in a cognate area, such as business, science, law, the performing arts, literature, sports, news, and the social or behavioral sciences areas is invaluable to the industry. Journalism has changed in the past decade, and offers a wider range of job opportunities. The Journalism Program is led by the English Department in the Division of Mathematics and English.
Journalism studies at PPSC focus on the study of mass media, reporting, and feature writing, publication design, and editing. Students will learn about the multiple facets of mass communication from the internet to the printed page. In addition, students will learn to interview, research and write feature, newspaper and magazine articles, headlines, news releases, and advertisements. Also, students will use the courses to update their skills in the digital age of news, Social Media, and web content.
Journalists
$48,370 / yr
Editors
$63,350 / yr
Technical Writers
$78,060 / yr
Public Relations Specialist
$62,800 / yr
Advertising and Promotions Managers
$127,150 / yr
+6%
Careers and employment in News Analyzing, Reporting, and Journalism are projected to grow 6 percent from 2020 to 2030.
+80%
80% of jobs for Editors require a Bachelor's Degree
Check out some Journalism classes you might take below.
Places the mass media in an historical and cultural perspective, considering the validity, integrity, and influence of the media in a democracy.
Introduces newswriting, reporting, and interviewing with an emphasis on clarity, accuracy, timeliness, and fairness.
Provides for students’ participation in the planning, writing, design, and production processes of a non-newspaper publication.
Explores techniques and approaches in the latest delivery methods for new media journalism, ethics, technological advances, and media literacy.
Focuses on public relations and its role for the individual, the nonprofit organization, business, and government; research methodology, principles and practices necessary to become a public relations practitioner; and media channels best suited to a persuasive appeal or crisis.
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Research and write articles, news releases, and advertisements
Create journalistic pieces for the online dissemination of news, documentary, and infotainment
Follow principles and practices governing public relations management
Course Description: Emphasizes the planning, writing, and revising of compositions, including the development of critical and logical thinking skills. This course includes a wide variety of compositions that stress analytical, evaluative, and persuasive/argumentative writing.
*Your personalized schedule will be best determined by meeting with an Academic Advisor
Course Description: Places the mass media in an historical and cultural perspective, considering the validity, integrity, and influence of the media in a democracy.
*Your personalized schedule will be best determined by meeting with an Academic Advisor
Course Description: Focuses on the scientific study of behavior including motivation, emotion, physiological psychology, stress and coping, research methods, consciousness, sensation, perception, learning, and memory.
*Your personalized schedule will be best determined by meeting with an Academic Advisor
MAT 1240 is recommended, or talk with your Advisor and/or Transfer School about which GT Pathways Course for Math will be best for your transfer plan.
Six (6) credit hours. Any (GT-CO1) course plus any (GT-CO2) course OR Any (GT-CO2) course plus any (GT-CO3) course.
Pikes Peak English alumni are working as teachers, writers, technical writers, journalists, editors, and also have careers in publishing and business. Students who have studied English at Pikes Peak State College have gone on to complete Bachelor's, Master's, and Master of Fine Arts degrees.
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