Undergraduate Program

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINUniversity of Texas at Austin1 University Station A1000

Austin, TX 78712Phone: 512.471.1845

http://journalism.utexas.edu

“Our goal is to teach you to communicatie clearly and demystify information without devaluing its richness or complexity.”

At the University of Texas School of Journalism students learn multimedia skills, how to produce their own web-sites and create their own digital portfolio from the day they enter the school.

Students learn to think like journalists, report and write like one as well, and they emerge prepared to tell stories in different ways across many news platforms.

Students at work in the new multimedia newsroom in the Belo Center.

Admissions Undergraduate students are admitted in the fall and spring. The deadline is December 1 for fall and Octo-ber 1 for spring. Visit http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu for more information.

Our new curriculum eliminates the old walls between print, magazine, photo-journalism, multimedia and broadcast,

and emphasizes good writing and critical think-ing from Day One. In addition, it streamlines the number of courses and students’ paths from entry to graduation.

Level OneStudents start the program with two required courses that introduce the critical values and sensibility at the heart of the journalistic method and the digital tools to communicate that method.

Level Two This level focuses on reporting, writing and editing skills for print, web and broadcast as well as methods for effec-tive photography, video and design.

Level Three Having acquired basic digital journalism tools, skills and sensibility in Levels 1 and 2, students embark in content-driven courses that give the opportunity to do in-depth reporting and go deeper into various subjects and themes, as well as the chance to develop more special-ized journalistic skills.

The three class categories: • Public Affairs Reporting• Specialized Journalistic Skills • Understanding and Reporting Social Issues

Level FourLevel 4 allows students to survey the profound role of journalism in society, including ethics, historical per-spectives and media law.

Level FiveThis final stage offers students the opportunity to produce high-impact journalism across multiple plat-forms. All students are required to take the capstone course in our new multimedia newsroom. Students are also required to either undertake a professional intern-ship or participate in Reporting Texas, the school’s multimedia news website.

Why UT?

The Belo Center for New Media.

The hustle and bustle between classes. Design and photos by Meredith Diers and Katy McDowall