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When I first talked to the journalist adviser at my undergraduate college, he asked why I was in liberal arts. My hard science and math ACT scores were far better than my English scores and I was enrolled in a calculus class while majoring in English. "Because I want to write" was my pat answer and I took the math class just because I loved math. Weird, huh? I only lasted once semester in the calculus class, but that was more because it was at 8 a.m. and had Thursday tests. I was usually at the newspaper office until 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. the night before. So my goal of minoring in math was shot and I started looking for another minor. What developed was a love of political science and a second bachelor's degree. Turns out, at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado, if you are getting a degree in journalism, you will be taking a lot of political science classes, enough that with just one or two more classes, you get a second major. Then, when time for graduate school came around, I found the Public Affairs Reporting degree at the University of Illinois in Springfield. The degree includes a mandatory internship working in the Illinois statehouse for one of the news organizations there. I got an MA in covering government and for a few years used it. Being a reporter and having a life didn't mix well, so I gave it up for awhile, but in recent years have been using my degree again - to write online. Politics and breaking news are still my love, but not so hot for online content. So, instead I use the training to write for online sites and use the political background as fodder for my short stories and novels. Sadly, the most long-term useful classes that I took were ones that were not necessarily required for the degree. I learned tremendous amounts about world politics in my class about Viet Nam and my campaign finance class has been useful in helping me track how things are funded. My master's thesis, promoting universal health care for Illinois, has proven to be very useful in offering me perspective on the national health care debate. Otherwise, I really don't use my master's degree. My undergraduate degrees, on the other hand, have been extremely useful as they included a lot of classes that I now think might be useful for anyone. My state and local governments class provided information one everything for local school board operations to why it is more economical for every police officer to be assigned a squad car which he or she takes home at night. I was forced to take economics, logic and international relations as part of my journalism degree. I wish I saw evidence that other journalists were required to do likewise. In short, my undergraduate degrees have helped me to get unrelated jobs and helped me to simply understand the world around me. My master's degree is too specialized and is little more than a piece of a paper. In fact, when I worked in fields other than journalism, it was detrimental, as people occasionally told me I was overqualified for the job I wanted. |
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