The minor’s curriculum is designed not only to teach you the fundamental skills used in the mass media to gather information and to write stories, but also to help you understand and to critique the role the media play in today’s society. 

You will practice what you have learned in the classroom in the internship and Journalism as a Profession courses. 

For the internship, students will work about 20 hours a week at a news media organization either on or off campus. 

Internships are an opportunity to obtain practical experience and to apply classroom instruction to a real world environment.  They also provide students with a chance to work with news media professionals and to begin constructing a network of professional acquaintances.  Past internship partners have included the Austin American-Statesman, Brazos Valley Insite Magazine, CNN Newsource, FOX Sports Net Southwest, KBTX-TV, KRLD Newsradio, New York Daily News, Smithsonian National Museum of American History and The George Bush Presidential Library and Musuem.  The Battalion, A&M’s student newspaper, also has developed an internship program for students enrolled in the minor.

The final course in the curriculum, Journalism as a Profession, is designed as a capstone experience for students, who will work closely with the program’s professional Journalists-in-Residence to produce multiple publication-quality projects. Students should not attempt the internship and Journalism as a Profession class before completing the other coursework in the minor.