Students at LaGrange College can prepare themselves for a career in journalism or communications (or for graduate studies in those fields) by

1. majoring in a humanities/social science discipline such as English,political science, or history

and/or

2. completing an English minor with a writing concentration;or
3. designing an interdisciplinary major that blends courses from disciplines pertinent to journalism and communications (see “Interdisciplinary Major”).

First-year students who are interested in journalism and communications should consider enrolling in ENGL 1101J and ENGL 1102J for their required first-year writing courses. These sections will focus on writing for, editing, and publishing LaGrange College’s student newspaper, The Hilltop News. In addition, students in these sections will explore exemplary feature writing and submit articles for publication.

Students should also become actively involved in one or more of the following student publications:

The Hilltop News (our campus newspaper)

The Scroll (our fine arts magazine)

Citations (our scholarly journal of undergraduate research)