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>> I would suggest some of the classes I think had the most impact on me --
took a class about genocide and rhetoric and propaganda.
That -- history courses are a good idea.
Political science courses probably wouldn't hurt.
I didn't take many of them.
But writing courses, any of the English courses that we offer I think all
of them help you become somebody that can write clearly, concisely, and take information,
unpack it, and figure out how to make it relatable for the viewer.
Well, Villanova is unique in that -- in a good way I think in that we do --
and actually it could have changed, but at the time we didn't have a journalism major,
we had a communication major, and you could concentration in journalism.
I found there's a lot of people that come in, and they'd go to a broadcast school,
and they'd major in broadcast journalism, or they'd major in print journalism.
And they'd get a lot of hands-on experience, they have a college TV station
that teaches them exactly just like it is here.
We don't get that at Villanova, but I think it's a plus.
I think that you need to be a critical thinker, and you need to be a good writer.
And those 2 things stand out the most.
You can learn how to track a story.
You can learn how to shoot video.
You can learn how to write for copy for air.
But, you know, employers are willing to train you in that.
But what they want to know is that you can think critically about things,
that you understand the difference between information that is confirmed
and isn't, about libel, things like that.
And when you're a smart person and you're responsible,
then you can learn all those other things.
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