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Campus Life at BloomingtonThe Journalism Library The Journalism LibraryThe renovated Weil Journalism Library, which opened in November 2004, offers both PCs and I-MACs for class work and access to electronic resources. Wireless computer access is available to laptop users. Students and faculty can access hundreds of online databases in the library, including Lexis-Nexis, ComAbstracts (online), Ethnic NewsWatch, and Communication and Mass Media Complete. The onsite print collection is augmented by next-day courier service of requested items held in the remote storage facility known as ALF. Patrons can also request delivery of items held in other IU system libraries to the Journalism library. Onsite the Journalism library maintains a growing DVD/video collection, the newest monographs in journalism and mass communication, and current subscriptions to more than 130 scholarly and popular serials in the field. The library offers access to many online, full-text current journal titles, and keeps archives to back files in varying formats. The Journalism librarian and staff are available to assist with research, using IU Libraries’ Web-based catalog, the many available databases, and other information sources. The Roy W. Howard ArchiveThe Roy W. Howard Archive in the Scripps Howard Foundation Suite contains personal and public material on Roy Howard. Howard grew up in Indianapolis and worked on newspapers in St. Louis and Cincinnati before becoming the first president of the United Press in 1912. In 1922 he was named chairman of the board of Scripps Howard Newspapers, a position he held until his retirement in 1953. The School of Journalism directs the annual Roy W. Howard National Reporting Competition and Howard Lecture for journalism students. Career MattersThe School of Journalism offers students a range of awards, scholarships, opportunities and activities in student organizations, internships and workshops. To inform students of such events and opportunities, the school publishes Career Matters, an online newsletter. The school makes Career Matters available to all its majors by e-mailing it directly to students. Honors and ScholarshipsThe school recognizes and rewards the academic and professional accomplishments of its majors with a program of awards and scholarships on both the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses. The school places its outstanding students on the Dean’s List each semester, based on their grade point average for that semester. In addition, the school annually awards about $200,000 in scholarships, ranging in value from $1,000 to $8,000, to its majors. The application process begins in September. Applicants are selected for these scholarships by a faculty-student committee. The school announces the awards at an annual ceremony for students and parents in the spring. Campus MediaThe School of Journalism does not require that students work on campus media nor does it give them academic credit if they do. Nevertheless, the school strongly urges all journalism students to work on campus media to practice and develop the skills they are learning in their journalism classes. Students considering professional careers in the media will find that campus media experience is essential for securing professional internships and full-time employment in news, public relations, broadcasting, and advertising. More than 300 students work each semester on the Indiana Daily Student in news-editorial, advertising, circulation, and production. The campus newspaper publishes five days per week in regular semesters and twice weekly during summer terms. Students have full responsibility for the news-editorial content of the newspaper, which is entirely funded through advertising revenues. In addition, nearly two dozen students are involved in the production of the daily online student medium, the Indiana Daily Student Online at www.idsnews.com. The Indiana Daily Student Online is playing an increasingly key role in breaking campus news. Also affiliated with the Indiana Daily Student is the weekly arts and entertainment magazine, IDS Weekend, which gives about two dozen students experience in magazine production and publishing. The editorial and advertising offices for all of the student IDS enterprises are located on the first floor of Ernie Pyle Hall. Students also have full responsibility for the content of the Arbutus, the IU yearbook. This publication offers excellent experience for students interested in photojournalism, layout and design, and magazine and feature writing. It also offers opportunities for students interested in the management and marketing of publications. The Arbutus offices are also on the first floor of Ernie Pyle Hall. Students with aspirations for careers in print should also explore opportunities for contributing to the Indiana Alumni magazine (offices at 1000 E. 17th Street) and other publications and newsletters in academic units, residence halls, sororities, and fraternities. Broadcast news students are encouraged to seek experience at WTIU and WFIU, the public television and radio stations located in the Radio-Television Building on the Bloomington campus. WTIU airs a student-produced newscast, and both WTIU and WFIU offer internship opportunities. Students may also work for WIUS, the student-run radio station, and IU’s three-year-old student television station, IUS TV. Student OrganizationsThe School of Journalism encourages students to become involved in academic life and to develop their professional preparation through student organizations and student chapters of professional organizations. Students are appointed to appropriate school committees by the dean. Students run the following organizations, usually with the guidance of a faculty advisor, enriching their professional development through attending workshops, lectures, and social activities:
Internships and PlacementThe career services director, Marcia Debnam, helps students prepare for internships and full-time employment. Information about opportunities is posted regularly on the school’s career Web site, www.iujournalismcareers.com, and on the school’s bulletin board in Ernie Pyle Hall. Such opportunities are also published in Career Matters, the school’s online newsletter. The school’s career services director advises students in preparing resumes, clips, cover letters, interviews and job and internship search strategies; and coordinates school visits from recruiters and employers. The Career Services Office is located in EP 202. Students can earn up to 3 credit hours (1-3 credits per internship) for properly supervised internships, provided they arrange to meet the school’s requirements in advance of taking the internship. Students may not apply the credit to the minimum of 31 hours required for the journalism major; they may use it only as elective credit in the total 123 credit hours required for the degree. For information about requirements for securing internship credit, consult the Career Services Office. Hutton Honors CollegeThe School of Journalism encourages superior students to take advantage of the variety of opportunities offered through the Hutton Honors College and is pleased to cooperate with their advisors in helping first-year students plan their individual programs. Honors Seminars and Special Sections Many departments offer special sections for students in the Hutton Honors College. The School of Journalism has offered honors sections of Journalism J 110, J 200, and J 300, and opportunities for honors research through Journalism J 499. The Hutton Honors College faculty also teach honors seminars in their various disciplines. The material covered in these courses is broader in scope or greater in depth than that of a regular course. Grants and Scholarships Any junior or senior with a 3.3 or higher cumulative grade point average (GPA) or a 3.7 or higher major GPA may apply for Hutton Honors College support. Grants are available for research, creative activity, teaching internships, and professional experience internships. Awards are for a maximum of $750 during the academic year and $2,000 in the summer. In addition, any undergraduate student with a 3.3 GPA is eligible to apply for the Edward L. Hutton International Experiences Program Grant for up to $2,000. All awards are competitive. See the Hutton Honors College Web site (www.indiana.edu/~iubhonor) for more information. Writing Tutorial ServicesWriting Tutorial Services (WTS) provides free, one-on-one tutorial help for students who are writing papers for any course. Students visiting WTS (located in Ballantine 206) meet with tutors in hour-long appointments to talk about papers at any stage of the writing process—brainstorming, drafting, revising, or polishing. Whenever possible, a student seeking help at WTS will meet with a tutor who is familiar with the student’s discipline and course, and who can therefore help with discipline- or course-specific aspects of the student’s writing. To make an appointment for a tutorial, call WTS at (812) 855-6738. In addition to the main location in Ballantine, WTS tutors are also available at several branch locations for walk-in tutorials: on the undergraduate side of the Main Library and at the Academic Support Centers in Briscoe, Teter, and Forest residence halls. Overseas Study ProgramsJournalism students are encouraged to make overseas study a part of their regular degree program. Students can spend a full academic year, a semester, or a summer abroad earning IU credits while enrolled in outstanding foreign universities. IU offers more than 80 overseas study programs in 17 languages (including English) in 37 countries and in nearly every field of study. For example, students can study Renaissance art in Florence, international politics in Aix, English history in Canterbury, international news gathering in London, tropical biology in Costa Rica, or Spanish in Cuernavaca. Some programs require a strong foreign language background so that students can attend regular courses in the host university. Others, especially summer programs, provide intensive language instruction as part of the program. A number of semester programs offer courses in English on international topics such as environmental policy. Indiana University grants direct credit for all IU-sponsored programs so that students can continue normal academic progress while abroad. Journalism students usually satisfy distribution and elective requirements abroad. IU overseas credit may be counted toward the senior residency requirement, and students may apply IU financial aid to all program costs. There are special study-abroad scholarships for certain programs, minority students, and students from IU’s nonresidential campuses. Students who are interested in overseas study should begin planning early in their first year to include study abroad in a degree program. For more information, visit the Overseas Study Information Center (which is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday in Franklin Hall 303), call (812) 855-9304, see its Web site (www.indiana.edu/~overseas), or contact overseas study coordinators on other IU campuses.
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