Postgraduates apply for communication and journalism. What's the difference between these two majors? ....

First of all, the nature of disciplines is different.

1. Communication: a discipline that studies the occurrence and development of all human communication behaviors and communication processes and the relationship between communication and people and society, that is, communication is a discipline that studies how human beings use symbols to exchange social information.

2. Journalism: the science of studying news and news laws. Journalism is a science that takes the objective news phenomena in human society as the research object, focuses on the relationship between journalism and human society, and explores the special laws of the emergence and development of journalism and the basic requirements of journalism.

Second, the main course is different.

1. Communication: mainly includes: inward communication, interpersonal communication, public communication, mass communication and organizational communication. Among them, mass communication is the mainstay.

2. Journalism: The contents of the study are news theory, news history and news business. The central topic of journalism is: the decision and domination of various conditions on human news activities in objective society, and the reaction of news activities to society.

Extended data:

The importance and cultivation of news and the abilities that students should have are as follows.

1, master the basic theory and knowledge of journalism;

2. Master business knowledge and skills such as news interview, writing, editing, commenting and photography;

3. Have the ability of investigation and social activities;

4, understand the principles, policies and regulations of journalism;

5. Understand the current situation and development trend of journalism in China and the development trend of journalism abroad.

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