Looking back on the first day of JMC 100, I was nervous going into the class. However, the nerves quickly subsided when I met Kelly Scott that first day. Things only got better from there.
After JMC 100, I took Newswriting with Anita Fleming-Rife. We went on a field trip to tour The Greeley Tribune, which was the best field trip because I got to see how an actual newspaper functions.
Then I took Advertising with Wayne Melanson, Media Planning and Research with Kelly Scott, Visual Journalism and Documentary with Gary Swanson, Mass Communications Law with Dale Edwards, News Editing and Layout and Advanced News and Feature Writing with Lynn Klyde-Silverstein.
They were all exceptional classes. I never had a low point and I learned so much. The only class I would not recommend for news-editorial emphasis majors would be the Media Planning and Research. I only took the class because Kelly Scott was teaching and she is the one person who influenced me to continue with the journalism major. The only thing I remember about the class is how to measure column inches in a newspaper.
I feel like I am prepared to work in today’s journalism field because I capitalized on the opportunities provided by the program to gain experience. Some of the major opportunities are working for The Mirror Student Newspaper for three years, completing an internship with the Windsor Beacon and producing a documentary on Greeley’s roller derby league. It’s been such an awesome experience all around and the professors are all fabulous.
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