Bachelor of Arts - Journalism

In an ever-changing media environment, University of Minnesota Duluth's (UMD) Journalism major is designed to be innovative and dynamic while adhering to a critical understanding of media’s role in a diverse, global society. The major emphasizes community engagement and global competence. Students gain a toolbox of skills and a critical understanding of mass media.

• Strong focus on studying the role of journalism in a changing world.
• Personal connections between faculty and student.
• Customizable degree options based on student interests.
• Faculty with real-world, industry experience.
• Strong alumni network connects to our students to jobs and career mentoring.

Acquired Skills

• Demonstrate how the journalistic approach to problem solving and storytelling can produce locally engaged, globally competent citizens
• Demonstrate competence in a core set of Journalistic crafts in reporting, research and storytelling
• Express a critical understanding of the contextual factors that shape the media message
• Produce journalistic work that showcases an area of specialization that draws on the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of the student
• Demonstrate a problem-solving approach to the practice of Journalism that will give the student confidence and professional agility to respond to a changing market
• Compile a portfolio that demonstrates work produced in a professional media setting

Career Possibilities

Journalists are inquisitive. They want to know what’s going on in the world, and they want to know why. Journalists have a powerful urge to communicate. They want to share what they’ve learned. 

• Journalism
• Photojournalism
• Public Relations
• Marketing
• Advertising
• Corporate Communication
• Health Communication
• Local Television News
• Multimedia Journalism
• Publishing (newspaper, magazine, book)
• Electronic media
• Graduate and Law School