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Originally Posted by AXOrushadvisor
You are right. I'm not using my major either. She is just the kind of kid that wants to do stuff they way she thinks is right. Changing majors or transferring schools in her mind wont work.
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True (from someone else not using his major, professionally at least), but I tend to think that journalism may be one of those areas where if she is serious about it, then it's the thing to study.
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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
I seriously wouldn't do anything more than a minor in any major with "journalism" in it (says the girl with a BA in, and this is not a joke, Journalism with an emphasis in French and Film Analysis). Journalism is a dying art and putting too much emphasis on it will diminish the time spent learning stuff that will actually pay her later on.
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I don't know about that -- I think it may depend on what she wants to do with the degree. My wife was a journalism major, and our niece fairly recently finished up a major in broadcast journalism. We were all impressed with how the J School is adjusting to journalism in a modern world.
Our niece got excellent experience and great opportunities in school, and while BF North Dakota is a possibility, it's probably less of a possibility somewhere there are lots of markets to begin with, like the East Coast or West Coast.
But you're absolutely right that networking is a
big part of it, and some schools are going to have more opportunity for that than others.