About the College/Department: The journalism department offers strong, professionally oriented undergraduate news-editorial, public relations and visual journalism sequences. At the heart of the department's curriculum are its writing courses – news writing, editing, reporting, feature writing, advanced reporting and public relations. These courses stress clarity, accuracy and depth of content in a sequence designed to develop professional skills, sensitivity to people and understanding of society. Publications produced by journalism students have won numerous state, regional and national awards. The department has nine full-time positions and several adjunct positions, and puts a high premium on teaching quality, maintaining small class sizes (for example, writing and editing classes are capped at 18 students) and an intimate working environment for faculty and students. The department has about 200 majors and pre-majors.

The department is widely recognized for excellence in journalism instruction and is an integral part of a minor in Internet resources. Students are required to complete a supervised internship. The department has a Macintosh teaching lab and state-of-the-art laboratories for the student-produced newspaper, magazines and online publications. Faculty take active roles in department administration and university affairs. Find us at: http://www.wwu.edu/depts/journalism/.