As environmental news has garnered more attention in recent years, Point Park University will now have the opportunity to obtain environmental journalism degrees. The new degree, available to undergraduate and graduate students, will be offered in the fall of 2016. Students will be able to focus on print or broadcast and will pair journalism classes with classes in environmental sciences, like ecology and biology, according to School of Communications Chair Thom Baggerman. “(We want students) to be able to not just rely on the words of their sources, but have the ability to go to the primary documents, the scientific report and analyze it for themselves,” Baggerman said. Current first-year journalism students can also change their major to the new program, Baggerman said. Point Park is one of only a handful of schools in the country that offer environmental journalism programs to undergraduates, he said. “We’re going to be looking for the best and brightest students out there, who are
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