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UnderGrad

Media + Public Affairs

Do you

  • Use social media to promote causes or businesses?
  • Volunteer for political campaigns?
  • Work on your school’s newspaper or yearbook?
  • Want to help people understand laws and government?
  • Want to make businesses more socially responsible?
  • Want to champion a nonprofit organization’s work?

Majoring in Media and Public Affairs may be a good choice for you.

This new major, believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S., teaches students when and how to deploy traditional and new media tools to achieve the goals of their communities, nonprofit organizations or businesses. Classes are an interdisciplinary mix of public affairs (such as government finance and budget; political action and civic engagement), journalism (public relations; visual communications), political science (voting and elections; modern political thought), informatics and liberal arts.

Complete list of requirements for the Media and Public Affairs major: Degree planning sheet

Media and Public Affairs sample careers

  • Public information officer
  • Government affairs liaison for private or nonprofit organizations
  • Public administrator at the local, state and federal level
  • Lobbyist
  • Trade organization representative
  • Reporter

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