Undergraduate

At the undergraduate (B.A.) level, students train to report and write for print/online media or broadcast media in the General and Investigative Reporting concentration, or can choose a concentration in Media Criticism.

Graduate

At the graduate (M.A.) level, the Department offers ten areas of study:

• Reporting New York
• Reporting the Nation
• Magazine Writing
• News and Documentary
• Cultural Reporting and Criticism
• Business and Economic Reporting
• Science, Health and Environmental Reporting
• Global and Joint Program Studies

Currently, joint degrees are offered with:

• The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (M.A. Journalism and Latin American and Caribbean Studies)
• The Institute of French Studies (M.A. Journalism and French Studies)
• The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies (M.A. Journalism and Near Eastern Studies).

Additional joint studies programs are under consideration.

For joint degrees, students must apply to and be accepted by both participating departments and should indicate their interest when applying.

Students are sometimes permitted to take courses from other areas of study within the Department; the corresponding director must approve such requests.