Right now I’m in my freshman year of college and have decided that my career goal is to be a magazine journalist. Right now I’m currently majoring in journalism with a concentration in magazines. I know that I need make my resume look more unique so I decided to have a minor (I would double major but then I’d be looking at being in school for 6+ just for a bachelor’s). So, I was considering a minor in nutrition (ideally I’d like to work for a magazine like Sunset, Women’s Day, or Light Cooking). The journalism department at my school is more mass communications based, and better fitting for PR students, so I feel more inclined to major in nutrition and minor in journalism bc I know that the journalism major won’t teach me as much, and with the minor I can pick and choose what journalism classes I want to take, however it looks better. What do you think.
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June 28th, 2009 at 5:58 am
I like the idea of majoring in nutrition and minoring in journalism IF you pick up as many writing projects as you can.
here is the deal, journalism is getting tougher and tougher to get into - if you have an angle - in your case, nutrition, you can sell yourself as a specialist - but you gotta pack the resume with experience. Things like writing articles for fitness and cooking magazines, you school paper, the local paper, etc.all of that will give you meat to your resume.
Good luck.