The Newhouse School’s mission is to educate ethical, visionary communicators whose goal is to establish an open marketplace of ideas guided by the First Amendment using contemporary professional practices.

In the course of earning their degree, students are expected to achieve the following educational outcomes:

1. Demonstrate strong writing ability.
2. Demonstrate the ability to construct and tell a story effectively in spoken words, images, text and through multi-media.
3. Understand and make use of information technology, and grasp its import for society.
4. Understand effective visual language and how to apply it to create visual messages and enhance communications.
5. Understand the events and issues of the day in public communications and society in an environment both encouraged and deepened by the liberal arts experience.
6. Think analytically, gain numerical proficiency and learn to develop well-researched positions on issues.
7. Demonstrate knowledge of the historical traditions in public communications and of industry practices and products.
8. Demonstrate a knowledge of ethical practice in the communications field, along with an understanding of the responsibilities media practitioners have for the public welfare.
9. Demonstrate an understanding of the First Amendment freedoms of speech and press along with a commitment to using these freedoms in the service of democracy.
10. Demonstrate the ability to work within a team under deadline pressure.
11. Develop the knowledge to compare and contrast media systems around the world.
12. Learn to value, embrace and support diversity in society and the media.
13. Learn to access, evaluate, synthesize and make use of information in the creation of media products.
14. Become media literate and a critical consumer of media content.

The Newhouse School’s mission is to educate ethical, visionary communicators whose goal is to establish an open marketplace of ideas guided by the First Amendment using contemporary professional practices. In the course of earning their degree, students are expected to achieve the following educational outcomes:

1. Identify the principles and laws of free speech and press for the U. S., as well as compare the American system of freedom of expression with others around the world, including the right to dissent, to monitor and criticize power, and to assemble and petition for redress of grievances.
2. Describe how professionalization has historically shaped the institutions in communications.
3. Explain mass communication in relation to social identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and, as appropriate, other forms of diversity in American society.
4. Recognize how the diversity of peoples and cultures has shaped mass communications in a global society.
5. Apply theories and concepts of design and visual communication to the use and presentation of images and information.
6. Recognize professional ethical principles and apply them in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness and diversity.
7. Critically, creatively, and independently consider problems and issues relevant to the communications professions.
8. Conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the communications professions.
9. Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences and purposes they serve.
10. Critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style and grammatical correctness.
11. Apply basic numerical and statistical concepts.
12. Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the communications professions in which they work.