Programs to brag about
Whenever W&L has something that's the first, the oldest, or the best (that seems to cover a lot), it's worth mentioning on tours. And, if you've got a prospective interested in that area, you can go on to talk more about the program.
This post provides some more details, and, well, bragging points, about the proverty program and the journalism program.
*Why the poverty program? If you haven't read the Washington Post article linked up on the W&L homepage and sent out by broadcast mailer, do. Right now.
Some additional info from its website: the program began in 1997 and, as far as we know, is the only one of its type at an undergraduate school. The program begins with Poverty 101 and 102, the first an introduction and the latter a field-work program volunteering in the area. Then comes an 8-week, fulltime summer internship. The program seeps into other disciplines as well... combining with literature, journalism, politics, sociology and others.
*Why the journalism program? I'm a journalism major and am sitting in a newsroom right now. Don't ask questions.
Robert E. Lee offered at least 50 journalism scholarships during the 1869-1870 school year. The guys who took those scholarships were the first-ever students of journalism in the country. (FYI: Not until about 40 years later did the University of Missouri debut its journalism program, which it calls the world's oldest.)
Today, journalism majors can actually specialize and major in broadcast journalism, print journalism, electronic journalism, business journalism or communications. That's the widest selection of any Virginia school.
A historical bit: 1941 journalism alum, Frederic Farrar, saw a newspaper with the headline "Lincoln elected" in a country store in Vermont. He bartered to get the owner to sell it. He's donated the paper, and about 2,000 others, to the school, staring in 2003. They now make up the Farrar collection in the library, with papers dating back to 1559. That's old school.
To level the playing field, if you would like to post about your major or your favorite part of the school, send me an email! We'd love to incorporate what you think is important.
This post provides some more details, and, well, bragging points, about the proverty program and the journalism program.
*Why the poverty program? If you haven't read the Washington Post article linked up on the W&L homepage and sent out by broadcast mailer, do. Right now.
Some additional info from its website: the program began in 1997 and, as far as we know, is the only one of its type at an undergraduate school. The program begins with Poverty 101 and 102, the first an introduction and the latter a field-work program volunteering in the area. Then comes an 8-week, fulltime summer internship. The program seeps into other disciplines as well... combining with literature, journalism, politics, sociology and others.
*Why the journalism program? I'm a journalism major and am sitting in a newsroom right now. Don't ask questions.
Robert E. Lee offered at least 50 journalism scholarships during the 1869-1870 school year. The guys who took those scholarships were the first-ever students of journalism in the country. (FYI: Not until about 40 years later did the University of Missouri debut its journalism program, which it calls the world's oldest.)
Today, journalism majors can actually specialize and major in broadcast journalism, print journalism, electronic journalism, business journalism or communications. That's the widest selection of any Virginia school.
A historical bit: 1941 journalism alum, Frederic Farrar, saw a newspaper with the headline "Lincoln elected" in a country store in Vermont. He bartered to get the owner to sell it. He's donated the paper, and about 2,000 others, to the school, staring in 2003. They now make up the Farrar collection in the library, with papers dating back to 1559. That's old school.
To level the playing field, if you would like to post about your major or your favorite part of the school, send me an email! We'd love to incorporate what you think is important.
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