School of Journalism

Accredited by the Czech Ministry of Education, the  Journalism and Communications B.A. program has the mission to prepare its students to be competent and responsible journalists and specialists in the sphere of new media and mass communications.

The Journalism and Communications program places a strong emphasis on teaching multimedia skills with required courses like New Media—Digital Tools, Documentary & Digital Photography, Broadcast News & Video Production, and Visual Culture.

The program will also keep a special attention to training students in practical and professional news-writing and news-gathering techniques, applicable to all forms of journalistic writing, including public relations writing. Students in the Journalism & Communications B.A. program will also study the crucial relationship between the news media and democracy, exploring how the media contribute—or sometimes fail to contribute—to civil dialogue in a free society.

Another central aim of the program is to produce graduates with a comprehensive understanding of political, economic and social issues, both regionally and internationally. Students will be able to understand and discuss political and social affairs from various and diverse points of view, as well as from historical and psychological perspectives. For this reason, the foundation courses in this program include Introduction to Politics, Sociology, Economics, Psychology, European and World History. Overall, students are taught essential critical writing and thinking skills necessary to be competent media specialists—i.e. smarter creators and consumers of information across all media and its new, ever-expanding platforms including traditional print and online journalism.

The Journalism and Communications Program will prepare its graduates for work in both the traditional press and the ever expanding opportunities in new media, including blogs and internet publications, as well as radio and video, both traditional and web broadcasting-programming, and in the broader areas of marketing and public relations. The students will also be well qualified to work in the government including the embassies and international organizations (public affairs), as well as in public administration, the private sector, and in the non-profit NGO sector.

This program presents an unique opportunity to students who are looking for an education that would qualify them for jobs in journalism, media, public relations, marketing, as well public affairs departments of cultural and other NGO organizations. Through the possibility of student internships, our students will also have the opportunity to work in internationally recognized English-language media organizations like Radio Free Europe, Radio Prague, The Prague Post, Czech Business Weekly, The New Presence, as well as respected Czech media outlets like Lidové noviny, and Mladá fronta Dnes. There are also growing opportunities in local new media outlets including Prague TV, Transitions Online, Prague Daily Monitor, and many others.

Find all articles written by students of the Journalism & Communications program at the website of the students’ newspaper At the Lennon Wall.

See also: Alan Levy Journalism Scholarship
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