Students planning to continue study toward a bachelor's degree should discuss the Harper College program of study with the coordinator of the journalism program and a Student Development faculty member. The Freedom Forum Art. Students in this program who utilize the competency test to meet the mathematics requirement must take a foreign language course. Full-time and adjunct faculty are committed to teaching students to think as well as do . The faculty are practitioners who specialize in the fields of print and broadcast journalism, advertising, public relations, photography, freelance writing and other professional areas.
Students learn popular word processing, design and drawing software.
Interactive software provides students with exciting simulations of real-life news events. The use of audio-video materials brings current issues and prominent news makers into the classroom. Career Opportunities in Journalism. Hundreds of former students are on the staffs of newspapers, in the newsrooms of television and radio stations, in public relations and advertising firms, and in business and industrial publications and broadcast facilities. The media and related professions continue to create competitive openings for talented writers and designers.