Re-thinking J-school

Katie Zhu:

My frustrations are with the rigidity of my actual degree requirements - the credits I have to take in order to graduate. The credits for which I've wasted hours of email back and forth, running around getting signatures, and filling out petition forms in order to get them to line up with my little degree chart so I can check off the appropriate boxes and graduate on time.

My frustrations are with the lack of an applicable concentration that reflects the state of the news industry in 2013.

How is it okay that journalism students are able to graduate without ever taking a real statistics or mathematics class, given the crazy demand for data journalists? Or without ever taking a programming class?

The field of journalism has always been interdisciplinary, though traditionally this has been with the non-technical disciplines - the humanities, economics, political science.

Great points.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 29, 2013 2:37 AM
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