Visual Journalism Degree Program

The curriculum of Brooks Institute's Bachelor of Science in Visual Journalism degree program emphasizes the practice of ethical, journalistic storytelling, and incorporates a broad based experiential educational approach.

This Visual Journalism degree program covers six primary areas of technical and creative focus under the umbrella of journalistic storytelling: photojournalism, documentary film production, audio documentary, journalistic writing, multimedia journalism, website design and strategies for developing a web presence.

Upon completion of Brooks’ Bachelor of Science in Visual Journalism degree program, students should be able to:

• Successfully demonstrate the ability to generate, research, and plan projects in the tradition of non-fiction journalistic storytelling.
• Understand and practice an ethical approach to journalistic content gathering, exhibiting accuracy and fairness.
• Demonstrate effective story gathering techniques using contemporary photographic, video, audio, and multimedia tools.
• Follow journalistic guidelines and ethical standards during post-production and be able to effectively analyze and evaluate content appropriate to the target outlet.
• Proficiently process still images, edit and finish video projects, mix audio, and post, deliver, and broadcast multimedia content using contemporary tools and techniques.
• Demonstrate critical thinking through effective oral, written, and visual presentations using a variety of media and formats.
• Understand and apply strategic business practices to market themselves and their work effectively and professionally.
• Produce a professional portfolio demonstrating ethical, journalistic storytelling through contemporary media.

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