> Not to knock English departments, but my limited experience has been that journalism classes that are part of an English major suck. My university was the same way which is one reason I didn't major in journalism.
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> The fact is, journalism is a very specific field of study that is quite a bit different from English and even from communication. Journalism is practically a trade skill while English and mass comm. are very theoretical. You can study journalism theory but it won't prepare you to do my job any more than my studying political science prepared me to be a politican.
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> If a school doesn't have a strong enough journalism program to offer a full major in it, it stands to reason that journalism is not a priority at the school and thus the program is probably fairly weak.
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> Stephen

Excellent ananysis. You could easily be talking about the journalism program I was in more than 50 years ago. I learned some good stuff before I switched majors, but I think good journalists are 75% born and 25% made.
Howard