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Welcome to the Graduate School of Journalism and Mass Communications. We hope this website will help you to learn more about our program and provide information about our courses. Our mission is to educate students in journalism and mass communication, while examining the role of mass communication in society, so they may become influential and responsible leaders in the field. We expand our students' knowledge of mass communication, and its function in a democratic society, through research, discussion and interaction with our graduate faculty.
We strongly believe that professional training and liberal arts education are complementary. Thus, we prepare students for more than professional work alone. We prepare students to be leaders in mass communication fields and to be thoughtful, productive citizens in their communities and in public life. That means working with individual students who are searching for information and developing skills that will serve them professionally and personally, allowing them to live the fullest lives possible.
The aim of every graduate student should be to become an independent scholar. The best learners are active partners in the creative process of gaining and developing knowledge. This process begins with questioning that leads to the searching, sifting and analysis of information.We believe you will find this a stimulating and exciting place to be.
Bill Tillinghast, Ph.D.
Graduate Coordinator
Email: btillinghast@casa.sjsu.edu
Fall 2008 Graduate Deadlines
Proposal Deadlines: The Graduate Committee will meet three times this semester to evaluate proposals for theses and projects. Deliver 12 copies to the Graduate Coordinator by 6 p.m. on one of the following Mondays: Sept. 7, Oct. 6, Nov. 17.
For Completed Theses, Projects and Comprehensive Papers, the respective deadlines are:
Comprehensive Papers: Three copies of theory, or specialty, or both comprehensive papers are due to the Graduate Coordinator by Monday, Nov. 3. One set of the first, or title, page of each reference used is to be with the copy for the question originator.
Theses and Projects: First completed draft due to primary advisers no later than Sept. 15. Subsequent draft deadlines as needed. Final drafts for adviser sign-off are due Nov. 3. Advisers review theses and projects that require ONLY minor changes. Drafts needing considerable work will not be accepted for review at this time.
Thesis Turn-in Deadline: Signed-off theses are due to Graduate Studies & Research by Thursday, Nov. 13.
Graduate Presentations: Each graduating master’s student will present thesis, project or specialty comprehensive paper results on Monday, Nov. 24, in Rooms 225-229 in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library beginning at 6:00 p.m. Approximately 12 minutes are allotted for thesis and project results. Comp papers are allotted five minutes.
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