Certificate of Achievement Journalism

If you’re looking for a great way to start your career in journalism, we’ve got you.

Every student in CCC’s journalism program gets hands-on experience at our student-run weekly newspaper, The Advocate, and its web companion, cccadvocate.com. So when you’re a journalism student at CCC, you work in a real newsroom, where students cover events, take photos, write and edit stories, manage social media, create audio and video content for the website and do everything else that other news outlets do.

The Advocate is a 19-time winner of the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ Pacesetter Award (most recently in 2017); a seven-time winner of and eight-time second place finisher for the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Contest’s General Excellence Award; and a 15-time winner of college media’s most prestigious award, the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker (most recently in 2015).

And when it comes to academics, CCC is serious, too. Back in the classroom, accomplished faculty teach our journalism students how to manage the legal, creative, editorial and ethical challenges that journalists face every day.

Our Associate in Arts for Transfer degree in Journalism means guaranteed admission into a similar program at a CSU school. But we also offer a traditional associate degree and certificate of achievement, in case you already have a four-year degree or have another transfer strategy in mind.

So, why not check out the program, see if we can help you pay for school or even get the ball rolling and apply now?