<p>This is my intended major. Tell me all you know and have experienced, please. </p>
<p>I'm interested in journalism/PR, I currently have an internship with Turner Broadcasting and the CNN publicists I work with all studied some form of communications and they've told me it was required for the job. Also, I'm thinking of a minor in something that focuses on international studies (without politics), and possibly, psychology. What are my options? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>International Relations is an Honors major in Politics, minoring is not a possibility. </p>
<p>Be honest: did you do a board search first? I’m the most prolific student poster here, and I know I’ve written multiple, long, detailed posts about the department. If you have specific questions, I can answer those. Search for the name of the major, along with “MCC”, which is the abbreviation for the department.</p>
<p>I used to be on CC every day in the spring, but developed early senioritis. I’m kind of out of tune with this thing, but I’ll search :)</p>
<p>as for International relations, I don’t want to study it if it’s politics-focused. Is there a program that lets you focus more on international culture?</p>
<p>The MCC major has it’s own “Global and Transcultural Communications” track. There are multiple classes that are region-centric (Asian Culture, European Culture, Latino Culture) and general “international” classes. One class, “Media and Global Communications” would focus on a different country every few weeks. If you study abroad, the classes in that country can also count. We have a strong MCC presence in London, Paris, Prague, Shanghai and Florence.</p>
<p>how does one study Public Relations?</p>
<p>Case studies, practice writing press releases, practice putting together packets. Managing a public image is an important skill to learn in PR. That’s actually a very fascinating class, it’s taught by one of NYU’s PR people. I took another class of his, not PR. I was in The Culture Industry.</p>
<p>Thanks!
(btw: I know you must get tired of answering these questions, but you could easily put on your resume that you peer-counseled hundreds of students in the college process)</p>