For this journal entry, I was asked to find a news article that assesses the current public opinion of the communications major. The article that I will be using for this disucssion is called “What You Need to Know About Becoming a Communication and Media Studies Major.” This article gives a summary of what the communications major entails in most universities in the United States. The author says that if you have a multitude of interests and if you like working with people, then the major might be for you. The studies within this major teach you how to communicate interpersonally, but also how to examine the many different ways that can occur in today’s world. Nowadays, compared to say, fifteen years ago, the major has evolved to include media arts in the same track, or a complimentary minor track.
So, that was the short summary of what the major is itself. The rest of the article is more or less a questionnaire to see if communications is right for you. However, the bottom of the article asks the question, “What Can I Do With a Communication and Media Studies Major?” This is a common question posed to aspiring communications majors, and students already involved in this area of study. The article gives responses like: lawyer, marketing manager, human resources specialist, producer and director, etcetera.
This article, unlike other mainstream pieces about majors in the arts and humanities, sells this field of study pretty well and does not refer to the common stigma that other articles and the mainstream opinion might. At the end of the article, there is a section of testimonies from communications and media studies majors that provide great information.
