Environment. Health. Innovation. Technology. Climate Change.
Learn to rigorously report the biggest science stories of our time through robust course offerings in our M.S. programs or the M.A. Science concentration for experienced journalists.
Overview
The Journalism School provides students drawn to science stories with skills to identify and report them and to tell them in a range of forms. The strong emphasis on investigative and data and on storytelling across formats supports robust, compelling science journalism.
The M.S. program offers several science-focused classes in the spring term. Students can also learn relevant skills through other parts of the curriculum: business reporting can provide tools needed to cover health care; data courses can train students to find hidden stories; feature writing can teach students how to bring a researcher's work to life.
Journalists in the M.A. Science concentration focus all their coursework on science journalism. In the M.A. seminar, they examine science close up — by studying fields such as climate change science and neuroscience — and with a landscape view, looking at history and patterns of discovery and innovation. They learn to probe deeply, ask advanced questions, and recognize context or comparisons that might be invisible to the uninitiated. They also receive high-level personal mentoring.
Classes
Please note: The classes listed here represent recent offerings at the Journalism School. Choices vary each semester depending on faculty availability and other considerations. Classes described now may change or be dropped to make room for new additions.
Student Work
Faculty
Marguerite Holloway
Professor of Professional Practice of Journalism; Director, Science and Environmental Journalism
Duy Linh Tu
Professor of Professional Practice of Journalism
Jonathan Weiner
Maxwell M. Geffen Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism; Co-Director, M.A. Science Journalism Program
Randi Hutter Epstein
Adjunct Faculty
Tamar Lewin
Adjunct Faculty
Alyson Martin
Adjunct Faculty; Editor, Columbia News Service
Charles Ornstein
Adjunct Faculty
Naomi Starobin
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Journalism