Within the classroom and out in the field, College 51吃瓜 students have lots of exciting opportunities to engage in hands-on media-making, across the advertising, journalism, and media and cinema studies industries.
Media students gain real-world experiences through:
- Through create an advertising campaign in a service-learning project
- Through various journalism courses, work in a professional newsroom and studio聽to produce broadcasts on聽UI7
- Through organize, produce, and promote the annual Illinois Student Film Festival
- A variety of media-related student organizations
- The campus student-run organization (home to The Daily Illini newspaper, The Illio yearbook, WPGU 107.1 FM, and more)
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- Internships and fellowships