The Certificate Course in Public Journalism is a Fellowship offered by the (name of academic institutions) in partnership with the Center for Community Journalism and Development (CCJD). It is open to practicing journalists who have at least two years’ experience and to graduate students wishing to pursue higher communications or journalism studies. Units earned from the course can be credited to a degree course in journalism, communications or liberal arts. It can be offered as a 52-hour course spread over two weeks.

Course Objectives:

The course has been designed to specifically target practicing journalists who want to improve their skills, earn credits for further advanced studies in journalism, explore new and exciting ways of practicing journalism, and offer opportunities for contributing to community-building through their craft.

Course Description:

This course uses interactive and adult learning processes to enable participants apply new journalistic concepts to the day-to-day practice of the craft. It will likewise allow them to develop, should they decide, proposals for public journalism projects that they can undertake at the end of the course. Proposals can be submitted to the Center for Community Journalism and Development.