<p>If any current student at NYU can comment on any journalism-related courses he/she has taken, it'd be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Bump. I'd like to know as well.</p>
<p>major bump here. I'm a journalism student at NYU, about to go into my junior year. Since I only recently decided on my major, I've only taken about 3 journalism seminars. All three have been AMAZING. With any major, you're going to have to take the basic survey classes at the beginning, and they're usually crazy boring. The intro class I took for the journalism major did teach a bunch of no-brainer stuff, but I suppose its necessary to teach the basics first, just so everyone's on the same page. I took a bunch of journalism classes in high school, so I knew a lot of the material (inverted pyramid, ledes, etc). My professor for this class was really great; he wrote for the new york times for years and also won a pulitzer i believe.</p>
<p>One of my other classes was taught by James McBride, the author of "The Color of Water," and this class basically changed my life. The last class I took was very hands-on. The professor was a freelance writer and he put a great deal of focus on "the interview." Every week he'd bring in a random person (someone who represented an organization, did something groundbreaking, etc) for the class to interview for about an hour and then write a piece that incorporated the interviewee's quotes.</p>
<p>Bumpp. How’s the intensity of the journalism program? Internships sweet?</p>
<p>wow, great post silverstar! This is making me so excited :)</p>
<p>Yes, how are the interships? Is there a wide variety?</p>
<p>bump…i’m VERY interested in this, seeing as I was recently accepted to NYU’s J-school. Internships? Any advice? What you should double-major in? Anything you wish you could have done but didn’t? etc.</p>