<p>I understand that there is no Journalism major at Barnard. Is there a possibility for a specialized major? Is there one at Columbia? Are there any courses in it? Are there equivalent writing courses? Thanks for any info.</p>
<p>There's a possibility for a specialized major, but I'm not sure if anyone's ever done journalism before, or if you could come up with enough classes to make a reasonable proposal. I don't think Columbia has undergraduate journalism, either. Having a journalism major is probably not going to happen. I do think, though, if you get special permission you can take classes in the graudate school, but that's pretty rare.</p>
<p>But cheer! There are related writing courses. For example:
Creative Non-Fiction: Journalism
News and Feature Writing
Cultural Criticism ("students write about one or more of the arts, the media, and/or other aspects of culture, such as politics or sports. Writing in a variety of forms, including the review, the editorial, the essay, and the feature.")
And seminars of nonfiction writing that (I'd bet) have journalism as an option.</p>
<p>But I wasn't involved in any of those programs, so hopefully there's someone here who was...</p>
<p>Wow thank you so much. Are those classes all in one department though?</p>
<p>No, I think they're in both the writing program and the English departments. Doesn't hugely matter, really. I'm not really familiar with what types of courses to look for in journalism, so I'm sure I'm missing a lot of other related stuff.</p>
<p>I already asked this question...there is no UG major at Columbia or Barnard in Journalism, only Graduate School.</p>
<p>Major in whatever you want, but work on either the Barnard paper or the Columbia Spectator and you will be fine. (By the way, Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who is currently in jail for refusing to divulge her sources, is a Barnard grad)</p>