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This course and the specialization is brought to you and taught to you by
the faculty and the School of Journalism at Michigan State University, so
I'd like to tell you a little bit about the School of Journalism.
Here at Michigan State University.
We are one of the oldest Journalism programs in the country.
We began about 110 years ago and we are nationally accredited.
And National Accreditation means that there is a group of professionals and
faculty from across the country that come in every six years and
they look at a variety of things to make sure that you are an expert, and
having excellence in everything that you do.
So, the last time that we had our accreditation was in
2014 and just to read you a line or two, because it's my favorite.
It's that, journalism at Michigan State University has a rich history that began
103 years ago.
The School of Journalism is clearly in the select group of premier programs today.
And the school has been continuously accredited since 1949.
Another one of my favorite passages from the National Accreditation Team is that
the School of Journalism is doing a marvelous job of preparing students
in the digital age.
Students learn news judgement, reporting and writing skills.
And visual communication in beginning courses,
then produce multimedia news websites and interactive magazine apps in the capstone.
These capstone projects have won multiple awards for content and design.
So a little bit about the faculty.
The faculty teaches undergraduate, master's and doctoral students.
And we make up one of the largest journalism programs in the country.
Diversity and
international cultures are very important to us and are important components.
So diversity makes up about a third of our faculty and
also about a third of our student body.
Our faculty is a great mix of high-profile professionals, and
also internationally known researchers.
So those researchers bring cutting edge ideas into the classroom.
And the high-profile professionals
are always there telling students the latest ways to do things.
We have faculty that have Fulbright Fellows, Pulitzer-Prize winners and
a former executive director of Information Graphics at Newsweek Magazine.
They write stories for the New York Times, the Washington Post,
they covered the Olympics, they write for National Geographics and they also author
textbooks and present documentaries that win national awards.
So, we're very diverse in the things that we do, but
it's all in the field of journalism.