Re: What's your major?
Like you, pzarquon, I started off pursuing another discipline. I began my collegiate career at the community college level — where counselors told me if I wanted to be a journalist, I should major in communications, since the two departments were in the process of merging. Bad advice, it turned out, since it never happened the entire time I was at UH-Mānoa. I took two years of Com classes before Professor Richard Vincent took me aside and said, “you’re in the wrong major. You should switch to Journalism.”
It was a Kodak moment when during the merger process, they made the secretaries of the Journalism department and Communications department in George Hall sit facing each other — their desks nearly touching — with students having to squeeze between them to get help from either woman.
The semester after I graduated, it finally happened. I might actually be one of the last Journalism majors at UH before Gerald Kato took over, allowed the Journalism department to fall out of ACEJMC accreditation, and embarked on a major restructuring of the program.
I did get to actually use my degree in a traditional professional setting for a few years, though.
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It was a Kodak moment when during the merger process, they made the secretaries of the Journalism department and Communications department in George Hall sit facing each other — their desks nearly touching — with students having to squeeze between them to get help from either woman.
The semester after I graduated, it finally happened. I might actually be one of the last Journalism majors at UH before Gerald Kato took over, allowed the Journalism department to fall out of ACEJMC accreditation, and embarked on a major restructuring of the program.
I did get to actually use my degree in a traditional professional setting for a few years, though.
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