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Journalism Continued from page 1 major and I found my forte was writing, so I switched to agricul tural journalism so that I could write about animals,” said Alycia Zuehlke, a junior agricul tural journalism major. Since the program left the Department of Journalism in 2001, it opened its doors to writ ing classes for non-majors. However,students must meet the prerequisites, said Dr. Deborah Dunsford, a senior lecturer in the agricultural journalism department. Students, including journalism majors, who wanted to take basic journalism courses such as media writing had a lengthy wait in order to get forced into the core media writ ing classes. “We love to have non-majors who are interested in the general classes,” Dunsford said. 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Pro] for today’s journalism: to find work after grad he said. “ Our agricultural jail nalism students are not onlyfT pared for typical joumalisi:;[ careers, but have found eir ment success with many agncil tural marketing firms, statee| federal governmental agenritJ and agribusinesses, to name! few.” Cody Taylor, who gradu; from the Departmen! Journalism in 2000, workedd student worker in the joumak[ department. “On the surface, you assume that a journalism degsl wouldn’t be as narrow as il agricultural journalism degt:! However, looking back on it,| would say that they botli W equal value,” he said. “Thetal tom line when getting a job'{ the field (is) your emp wants to see that you cans You acquire the same skil both departments. 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