University of Illinois College of Media

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College of Media
Gregory Hall (Communications Library) (14868234488).jpg
Gregory Hall, home of the College of Media
Former name
College of Communications
MottoLeaders, Independent Thinkers, Innovators, Citizens
Type Public
Established1927 (School of Journalism); 1946 (Dept. of Advertising); 1948 (College)
Dean Tracy Sulkin
Students1,153 [1]
Undergraduates 1,082 [1]
Postgraduates 71 [1]
Location, ,
United States

40°06′20″N88°13′41″W / 40.1056°N 88.2281°W / 40.1056; -88.2281
Affiliations University of Illinois
Website www.media.illinois.edu

The College of Media is a college at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States. The college's name changed from the College of Communications to the College of Media in 2008.

Contents

The College of Media offers Bachelor of Science degrees in Journalism, Advertising, Media and Cinema Studies, and (jointly with the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Agricultural Communications. The college also partners with the Grainger College of Engineering to provide a "CS+" major in advertising which combines the academic study of advertising and computer science. [2] Graduate degrees are offered with Master of Science degrees in Journalism and Advertising. A Doctor in Philosophy in Communications and Media is also available.

Facilities

The College of Media is primarily housed in Gregory Hall. The Richmond Journalism Teaching Studio is also used for broadcast classes. A degree from the College of Media stresses a strong liberal arts background, so students typically take many different classes in areas such as political science, economics, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, natural science, and history.

College units

Campus opportunities

The University of Illinois offers students opportunities to get a sense of working in journalism while in school. The Urbana-Champaign area has Illini Media, which features the Daily Illini , WPGU Radio, the Illio yearbook, Buzz, www.the217.com, and the Technograph, an engineering magazine that comes out four times a year. Richmond Studio also hosts UI-7 and WILL.

Television stations

Radio stations

Notable alumni

Students and alumni have worked for organizations including the Chicago Bears, Chicago White Sox, WGN-TV, Fox TV, Universal Pictures, the Chicago Tribune , the Chicago Sun-Times , the St. Louis Post-Dispatch , Rolling Stone Magazine , CNN, WBBM-TV CBS 2 Chicago, the Champaign News-Gazette , the Associated Press, NBC 5 Chicago, WCIA, WPGU, Illini Media, UI-7, the Big Ten Network, the Chicago Rush, the Chicago Bandits, the Chicago Sky, the Chicago Wolves, the Chicago Storm, the Chicago Slaughter, the Chicago Shamrox, the Northwest Herald , KISS-FM, ESPN Rise magazine, KMOV CBS St. Louis, the NFL Network, and WGN Radio 720.

Pulitzer Prize winners

Broadcasting and journalism

Media

Reporting and journalism

Literature

Advertising and marketing

References

  1. 1 2 3 "On-Campus Student Enrollment" . Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  2. "Computer Science + Advertising | College of Media". media.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
  3. Department of Agricultural Communication
  4. Department of Advertising
  5. Department of Journalism
  6. Department of Media and Cinema Studies
  7. Institute of Communications Research
  8. Helen Min