Hank Greenspun School of Journalism & Media Studies

The Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies offers the Master of Arts degree, a course of study designed to emphasize methodological and theoretical exploration in various areas of journalism, and in the form and content of media. JMS courses help students acquire tools for conducting graduate-level research and for producing scholarship. The curriculum also caters to those with a professional orientation, allowing these students to investigate areas such as advertising, emerging media, film, the Internet, media management, print, public relations, and television, and their effects at social and individual levels. The program aims to develop a deep understanding of the media and to make students experts on journalistic and mass-mediated problems and issues, as well to make them better consumers of media messages, developers of content, and critics of mediated subject matter.

All students are required to take three core courses: The 1-credit Colloquium (JMS 708); Methods (JMS 709); and Theory (JMS 730). Because each student’s goals are unique, the program is flexible in developing individual program curricula. The objective is to balance the discipline’s varied traditions in theory, history, and research with attention paid especially to the changing media landscape of the twenty-first century.

Lawrence J. Mullen, Ph.D., Director
Gregory A. Borchard, Ph.D., Graduate Coordinator  

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Master of Arts - Journalism & Media Studies