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The Journalism and Integrated Media major requires the completion of a minimum of 44 credits (50 credits for the Cross-Cultural Media Concentration) beyond the general education requirements, 24 of which must be upper-division. On-Campus Study Opportunities Biola Radio Biola's award-winning student-run web radio programming gives students hands-on experience in reporting news and features, covering campus and regional sports, and creating talk-show format programming around Christian music and news trends. Student work takes place in an on- campus studio or in field-reporting. EagleVision Biola's student-run Webcast programming uses state-of-the-art studio and field equipment to cover news events, sports and trends facing the Biola campus and surrounding regions of southern Los Angeles and northern Orange County. EagleVision staff get practical experience in deadline reporting, script-writing, anchoring, editing and producing packages for Internet broadcast. EagleVision also uses CNN footage for localized coverage of world events. Talk-show studio formats are used to provide students experience with news-feature variety in programming. The Chimes and Chimes Online Biola's award-winning weekly newspaper provides deadline experience in reporting, writing, photojournalism, graphics design and multimedia for the Web. Editors and business staff, funded by scholarship, are chosen by competitive application a year in advance. Staff members are selected annually for expertise in select media areas (e.g. Advertising staff are selected for background in marketing). Staff training for the editorial and advertising staff provides students with incentives for excellence in portfolio material. Chimes Online, a stand-alone staff of writers, photographers, and multimedia producers provides daily, interactive news and feature coverage of the campus and the La Mirada region. The Biolan Biola's yearbook—one of the oldest forms of student media on the campus—provides students experience in magazine-style feature writing, feature and documentary-style photojournalism and four-color page design in a context that gives student journalists insight to careers in magazine production and book publishing. Editors are chosen a year in advance, but section editors are selected in Fall semesters to serve through the year. The Point This award-winning feature magazine is published at the end of each Fall and Spring semester. Work on The Point's staff, some of it by competitive application only, gives students hands-on experience in production of a full-color, slick-page publication. Student editors choose each edition's theme and select stories and photos from the best work of staff and student freelancers. Point staffers get training and experience in copy- editing, photojournalism and page design. Their name on the masthead of this publication, along with hard-earned skills, provide a leaping off point for magazine or publishing careers. PRSSA The Biola chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) builds ties between students and professionals in the Los Angeles region and nationally. Students in PRSSA do event planning, community service projects, and hear from guest speakers on best
practices for developing into successful leaders and practitioners of corporate, non-profit or ministry-related public relations and marketing. Journalist in Residence Biola's location in one of the nation's top media markets makes it a crossroads for journalists and public relations professionals of national and international renown. The Department of Media, Journalism and Public Relations invites selected professionals and successful alumni to speak on special topics in a one-credit course experience for students tailored to the trends and events of California, the Southwestern United States, the nation, and other parts of the world. Off-Campus Program Opportunities Biola offers several off-campus program opportunities geared to students earning a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Integrated Media. More information about these experiential learning programs can be found in the Study Abroad and Study USA section of this catalog, or at biola.edu/ ccce/programs (http://biola.edu/ccce/programs). Students interested in any of these programs should consult with an academic advisor as early as possible. American Studies Program This program, set in Washington, D.C., is ideal for students who want a better grasp of communications within government agencies. The program, run by the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, provides public policy discussion and coursework along with opportunities for both public relations and journalistic internships. See bestsemester.com (http://bestsemester.com) for details. Washington D.C. Journalism and PR opportunities The Fund for American Studies and various other D.C.-based study and internship opportunities have been a successful fit for Biola Journalism and Public Relations students. These programs offer courses and internship opportunities that parallel elements of our majors. Many Biola grads in Journalism and PR have made successful career entry in D.C. Disney Internships Biola's campus, so near Anaheim, home of Disneyland, provides students many opportunities for internships that can provide networking for both public relations and journalism careers. Students accepted for Disney internships complete coursework in leadership development and experience with public management. Students can also build ties to professionals in media properties owned by Disney, such as ABC News. Field Production Trips The Department of Media, Journalism and Public Relations offers special- topic, elective workshops for variable credit during some semesters that provide students hands-on experience in reporting, writing or visual journalism. Recent workshops have taken students to New York and Washington, D.C. for insights into political journalism; other trips involved travel to central Mexico for documentary photojournalism projects, and to Texas for insights on business aspects of free-lance photography. Other means of providing students with practical off-campus media experience are Travel Journalism and Cross-cultural Storytelling Project, a course set either in the U.S or overseas, guiding students in feature-writing, documentary photojournalism, video work or audio projects.
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