2.3 My Major

I am currently a journalism major at the University of Arizona. Students majoring in journalism have many different paths to follow in this major. I have only just started my journey through this major and I'm still pretty open minded about what specific road I will take. In an entry level journalism course, that all people in the major must take, you learn about what it means to be a journalist. The rules to writing, the ethic codes, all the different types of journalism and so on. Once graduating with a journalism degree depending on what you decided to specialize in you can go on to things like investigative journalism, broadcast journalism, print and media journalism, some may even go on to law school.

I never saw myself getting a degree in journalism until I decided random to go to a lecture a weather forecaster was holding in Santa Barbra. He made his job sound interesting and entertaining, which is what I wanted out of a career. At that time I was on medical leave from U of A and in school at Santa Barbara City College studying marine biology. The next semester I returned to U of A and started my first classes toward a degree in journalism with a minor in atmospheric sciences.

Its hard to recount the most exciting people in journalism at this moment because it is so broad and constantly changing. I do although have all time favorites. My favorite journalist of all time would be Robert Capa, he is a photo journalist who revolutionized war photography in the 20's-early 50's. His photos capture a moment in time and are highly regarded to this day.

Capa, Robert "D-Day: June 6, 1944: Allied Invasion of Normandy [photo by Robert Capa]"via flickr. attribution-noncommercial

Oxford University has one of the leading journals on climate change that is highly regarded in the journalism field. Public debates and arguments are what journalism is all about and it is what keeps it going. My entire field is based on the fact that people are constantly finding new things to discuss and debate.