Graduate education at Alabama Graduate study in journalism at Alabama combines rigorous academic work with preparation for professional careers. Our graduates provide our program's best advertising, as they move forward in the newspaper, magazine, and web fields. We continue to receive favorable reports on their progress, along with pleas from employers to send more graduates such like them. Several years ago, we refined our master's program to ensure that each student receives a strong core of academic study, which include history, first amendment, research, theory, and professional issues. Our purpose is to educate as well as train.
Students then fashion their remaining work to suit their career interests.
Many study in our creative non-fiction seminars, which challenge them to take their writing to a higher level. They also may take up to four courses in a related field, such as political science, literature, or science. A student may choose to write a thesis. Most students, however, follow our professional track in which they do additional course work and then complete a special project, which they present as part of their portfolio while in our program. These stories, usually in series form, have graced the front pages of the state's leading newspapers.