Students are encouraged to take a broad base of general liberal arts courses that blend with the fundamental technical courses of media writing, editing, photography, broadcasting, and desktop publishing. LCCC's mass media curriculum provides the basic requirements for a variety of specialized areas offered at four-year institutions. Students are encouraged to experiment in both print and broadcast journalism. Print journalism provides a strong background in reporting and newswriting, desktop publishing, and photography using the latest equipment. The campus newspaper, Wingspan, and literary-arts magazine, High Plains Register, are entirely produced on campus by students, using their own fully equipped desktop publishing computer lab.
Photographers enjoy the use of a film-processing darkroom and print lab.
Broadcast journalists have their own television studio and control room and may produce material for the college's own cable television channel. Nonmajors can benefit from journalism classes, especially Introduction to Mass Media, Photography, Desktop Publishing, and Publications Production. Because of the numerous directions students can take in the field of mass communications, they are urged to work closely with their advisor in outlining a course of study that will meet their needs in obtaining a job or in transferring to a four-year institution. 66-67 Students are encouraged to enroll in Cooperative Work Experience as part of their course of study. Please refer to the catalog listing for Cooperative Work Experience and consult an advisor regarding this option.