Curriculum

The 36-credit Master's Degree in Arts Journalism is completed in one calendar year in residence at Syracuse University. The program begins in Syracuse in early July with the summer term known as the Newhouse Boot Camp experience.

Students take four core arts journalism classes. In addition, during the fall and spring, they attend elective courses in journalism, multi-media skills, and the arts. Students have the option of a magazine or newspaper internship in Central New York, Manhattan, or Boston.

During the winter break, the arts journalists participate in a cultural immersion trip to New York City, which includes attendance at theater and music performances, film screenings, museum and gallery tours, architectural site visits, symposia, lectures, encounters with artists and administrators at major arts institutions, and sessions with New York arts editors and writers. The Goldring program concludes with a capstone workshop during May and June.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Required Courses
AJP 601 Current Issues for Arts Journalists
AJP 611 Arts & Arts Criticism (Literature of Criticism)
AJP 621 Practicum: New York City Arts
AJP 631 Capstone: Arts Writing Workshop
NEW 605 Newswriting and Reporting
COM 698 Media Law

RECOMMENDED COURSES
APJ 600 Critical & Feature Writing

Additional graduate courses in architecture, film, music, popular culture, television, design, theater and visual arts, as well as newspaper and magazine journalism, and digital communications.

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