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Marist University Summer Preview Days
Get a firsthand look at life at Marist University during our Summer Preview Day events! These events are designed to help you explore campus, connect with our community, and better understand the admissions process. The last Summer Preview Day will be held on August 17.
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Academics
Marist University Summer Preview Days
Get a firsthand look at life at Marist University during our Summer Preview Day events! These events are designed to help you explore campus, connect with our community, and better understand the admissions process. The last Summer Preview Day will be held on August 17.
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Admission & Financial Aid
Marist University Summer Preview Days
Get a firsthand look at life at Marist University during our Summer Preview Day events! These events are designed to help you explore campus, connect with our community, and better understand the admissions process. The last Summer Preview Day will be held on August 17.
Admission & Financial Aid
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Student Life
Marist University Summer Preview Days
Get a firsthand look at life at Marist University during our Summer Preview Day events! These events are designed to help you explore campus, connect with our community, and better understand the admissions process. The last Summer Preview Day will be held on August 17.
Student Life
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The Journalism concentration within the Communication major is designed to stir and enrich your curiosity, resourcefulness, and concern about the issues of the day. You will study the history, literature, and law of your field, and you will graduate with years of hands-on journalism experience to ensure your success upon entering the industry.
What Classes are Required for a Journalism Concentration?
At Marist, the Journalism concentration includes coursework in news writing, editing, media law, and multimedia storytelling. Beyond the fundamentals, students develop skills in research, reporting, ethical decision-making, public presentation, and visual communication. Courses within the concentration include:
- Layout and Design
- Producing the Newscast
- Photojournalism
- Press in America
How to Get Journalism Experience as a College Student?
College students can gain journalism experience through internships, student media organizations, campus publications, and professional networking opportunities. At Marist University, journalism students build hands-on experience by contributing to the student newspaper, The Marist Circle; participating in the Society of Professional Journalists; completing internships; and working with the Marist Poll, Marist's survey and polling research center. Only 90 minutes away from both New York City and Albany, NY, students have access to the journalistic epicenters of the world and gain real-world reporting and newsroom experience before graduation.
Develop The Skills Needed To Succeed
Through hands-on learning and real-world practice, you'll develop the skills and confidence to tell compelling stories, inform audiences, and make an impact in the field of journalism. Student Learning Outcomes >
Research & Reporting
Learn and practice the interviewing and research techniques reporters use in turning ideas into complete, thorough and truthful stories.
Critical Thinking
Develop the ability to analyze information from sources, evaluate it for importance and relevance, and synthesize it into a coherent account of a story.
Written & Visual Communication
Learn and refine the techniques that journalists use to communicate complex stories to the public in clear and compelling ways.
Ethical Decision Making In Newsrooms
Examine current ethical concerns in journalism, as well as professional ethical codes, and develop strategies for practical and principled newsroom decision making.
News Literacy & Analysis
Analyze a wide variety of news sources for their points of view, relevance, and contributions to the public conversation and put them into social and historical context.
Public Presentation
Develop skill and confidence in public presentation settings, from interview situations to newsroom meetings and public forums with audiences, readers and subscribers.
The Value of a Marist Education
Marist cultivates the intellectual growth and well-being of its students through unique and personalized combinations of coursework and experience in and out of the classroom. These experiences provide valuable personal growth and occupational expertise to reflect students' individual passions.
94%
Employed or attending grad school 6 months after graduation
83%
Of Marist Graduates Participated in one or more internships
82%
Graduation rate, higher than the average for public and private colleges
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Marist study abroad is the national leader for academic year programs, per Open Doors Report.



