The Journalism Program, located in Spokane, is designed to prepare students for professional journalism careers in print and electronic news reporting, public relations, public information and electronic publishing.
Few careers demand a more varied body of knowledge than does journalism.
Journalists today are constantly working with far-ranging and complex issues. The journalism curriculum at Eastern recognizes that the profession is both a discipline of its own and yet a fusion of many disciplines in our culture. Building on this necessity of a broad general education, News Editorial Option journalism students take approximately three-fourths of their courses outside the professional program. In their junior year, students enter the Journalism Center in Spokane for a year-long program of study, using the City of Spokane as a learning laboratory. With few exceptions, only journalism courses will be taken during this time.