<p>I need help in deciding what to major in, so I would really appreciate it if you could tell me a little about your major.</p>
<p>what's a typical day in class like? What kind of assignments are you given (if you could give actual examples, it would be a huge help as well) thanks</p>
<p>Do journalsim. Work the field for a few years then go into PR. Do not do it the other way around b/c journalists have issues with PR people.</p>
<p>There is no typical day in class for a student journalist. You could be loafing around the newspaper office one day, covering a major protest rally in the state capital the next.</p>
<p>Or, like happened to me last month, minutes after a campus police aide was shot down in the middle of the street, you could be interviewing detectives, taking photographs, following police on a manhunt, being threatened with arrest and going live on the Web with the breaking news...</p>
<p>Journalism is a very experiential major. You'll learn a lot more by doing than by sitting in a classroom.</p>
<p>Typical classes might include designing news pages with desktop publishing software, editing stories and working with writers, tools and techniques for investigative journalism, etc.</p>
<p>hmm what do you want to do after you graduate? if you want to be a journalist, you should major in something that writes a lot, like english, and then do a few newspaper internships. i hear the things you learn in journalism classes can actually be learned through internships. i don't know about PR. i don't know what bazcat mean about journalists having issues with PR ppl.</p>