Journalism Students at The University of Arizona

Since 2000, the department's enrollment has doubled, to more than 640 majors. Journalism is the ninth largest major on campus and the fourth largest among the 16 degree-granting units in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. One of every nine students in the department is an honors student, and one out of every seven is pursuing a double major.

Students are encouraged to seek internships with local, regional and national news media and have worked for organizations ranging from the Arizona Daily Star to CNN International. Journalism majors have finished in the top 10 in the Hearst national news writing and photojournalism competitions, which involve thousands of undergraduates from more than 100 accredited journalism programs.

Students also work on real-world news media developed by the Journalism Department. They do the reporting, photography and production for El Independiente, a bilingual newspaper serving the city of South Tucson, and the Tombstone Epitaph, a newspaper in historic Tombstone, Arizona. Many students also work as writers and editors at the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the UA student newspaper.

Students concentrating in broadcast or online journalism also will find plenty of real-world experience. Broadcast students produce "Arizona Cat's Eye," a video news magazine that airs on the local PBS affiliate. Internships also are available at local and regional television stations. Online journalism students produce two Web-zines: The Cat Scan and Border Beat.

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