Bachelor of Journalism - Broadcasting

The broadcasting major offers courses leading to a wide variety of careers in the broadcasting and media industries. Building on a solid base of instruction in radio, television, mobile and online journalism, the major has broadened its curriculum in response to advancing technology across the broad range of media. Broadcasting offers courses in news gathering and dissemination, videography, data visualization, Web design, sales, management, and other specializations, including the use of audio, video, and mobile technology. Courses are designed to develop both a comprehensive understanding of theoretical principles and professional skills. Most courses involve extensive practical laboratory work in addition to classroom lectures and discussions.

You can major in advertising and public relations, broadcasting, journalism, or sports media and communication with plenty of opportunities to take classes from all four. You can double major in something like history or English, political science, business, or nutrition. As a Big Ten school, Nebraska can give your life an incredible story and your story incredible life. Start here and go anywhere.

Our mission is to graduate highly competent professionals who have acquired communication and critical thinking skills appropriate to journalism, advertising, and public relations. We hold to the core principles of journalism and mass communication education and as leaders of the digital communications environment. Our mission is grounded in the First Amendment of the Constitution, which gives us a unique responsibility to serve a diverse society's needs. Through excellence in teaching and research, we educate ethical, socially responsible, well-rounded, and fair-minded graduates who will carry those traits into the real world.