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Dual Master's Degree Program in Earth and Environmental Science Journalism
Degree Programs:
Full-Time: dual degree program, Free-Standing M.A. in Earth and Environmental Science Journalism plus M.S. in Journalism
Co-Director:
Marguerite
Holloway,
M.S.
201 Journalism
Tel:
212.854.9149
e-mail:myh7@columbia.edu
Co-Director:
Kim
A.
Kastens,
Ph.D.
109 Oceanography, L-DEO
Tel:
845.365.8836
e-mail:kastens@ldeo.columbia.edu
Degree Requirements
Students complete two semesters of graduate-level course work in Earth and
Environmental Sciences, a science research project, and two semesters of course
work in journalism. The science and journalism components are linked through a
master’s project in science writing and a seminar on case studies in earth and environmental
science journalism. Hands-on training in broadcast and new media journalism is
available, as well as in traditional print journalism. Graduates receive an
M.S. in Journalism plus an M.A. in Earth and Environmental Science Journalism.
Year 1
Twenty-four credits of earth and environmental sciences are taken in the
first year. Courses in Case Studies in Earth and Environmental Science
Journalism is required of all first-year students (EESC G600J).
Any course at the 4000 level or higher in the Department of Earth and
Environmental Sciences may be used to fulfill the science course work
requirement. With permission of the program director, appropriate courses from
other schools or departments (e.g., School
of International and
Public Affairs, Mailman School of Public Health, and The Fu Foundation School
of Engineering and Applied Science) may be counted toward the degree.
Summer 1
M.A. paper: Beginning in the spring semester of the first year, and
continuing into the summer between the first and second years of study, the
student completes a research project under the guidance of a member of the
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory research staff or with certain members of the
staff of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences, the Center for Environmental
Research and Conservation, or the American Museum of Natural History. Students
must prepare a master’s paper based on their research project and defend their
results orally to an advisory committee of faculty members from the Department
of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Students also enroll in the August session of courses at the Journalism School, which begins in the first week
of August.
Year 2
Thirty credits of graduate work must be completed at
the Graduate School of Journalism, including preparation of a journalistic
master’s project on a topic pertaining to science or the environment.
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