East Paulding High School

Prepare for your career in television production by gaining skills in all aspects of video production, which include filming, video and audio editing, lighting and animation. This program features a state-of-the-art television production studio that offers students hands-on opportunities to plan and produce films and broadcasts.

The major in film and video is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand and apply this complex discipline in both an intellectual and artistic way. This is reflected in the program structure, which includes critical studies (history, theory, industry, and criticism), production (film, video, digital), and writing.

Film at Perimeter College examines the analysis, history, theory and critique of the film industry, allowing students to learn how art, business and technology combine to create films that express our 21st century culture.

Currently, the journalism major is one of the most popular majors by undergraduate enrollment in the college. The media industries demand journalism graduates to be critical thinkers who can produce news and publicity materials efficiently across platforms and Georgia State’s curriculum equips them to do just that. Journalism seeks to prepare students to research efficiently and write concisely through varying mediums, while integrating developed interpersonal and professional skills.

• Concentration in Media & Society
• Concentration in Public Relations
• Concentration in Multimedia Reporting

The academic pathway in Journalism at Perimeter College is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating and presenting news and information in a variety of ways.

The interdisciplinary major concentration in Media Entrepreneurship prepares students for entry into a changing media environment with an understanding of current business dynamics and opportunities. Students will gain grounding in the skills they need to start their own businesses and to bring innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to traditional media organizations. Throughout the program, students will examine organizational culture, emerging and traditional business models, opportunities and challenges presented by the start-up climate, and will discuss how to leverage digital media tools in an entrepreneurial context.

The curriculum offers a balance of theoretical and conceptual courses that challenge students to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively, and professional skills courses that give students an opportunity to apply their knowledge in cutting-edge experiential learning labs – bluestone-Public Relations Firm, WUTV, The West Georgian, and The WOLF Internet Radio. Located approximately 45 miles west of Atlanta, the department also gives students the opportunity to regularly network and intern with mass media and public relations professionals in a top-10 media market. Students graduate with portfolios that showcase their scholarship and skills, and give them a competitive edge in the industry.

Learn more about Mass Communications Concentrations:

Convergence Journalism

Digital Media & Telecommunication

Film & Video Production

Public Relations