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Journalism Certificate at University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh, United States

Programme overview

The Journalism Certificate is a cross-disciplinary programme combining core ethical and reporting skills such as fact-checking and interviewing with modern expertise in data visualization and multi-modal composition. It includes a requirement for experiential credits.

Faculty: Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences  |  Duration: Core course plus 15 elective credits  |  Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States

What you will study

Core: COMMRC 0320 Mass Communication and Society and one of ENGWRT 0550 Fundamentals of News Reporting or ENGWRT 0610 Introduction to Journalism and Nonfiction. Fifteen elective credits across two clusters, Multimedia Storytelling and Understanding the Media Landscape, with at least 6 credits in each and 3 in each subgroup (investigating and interviewing; data, audiences and technology; media law, ethics and misinformation; media practices).

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Duration: Core course plus 15 elective credits

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