Within the classroom and out in the field, College of Media students have lots of exciting opportunities to engage in hands-on media-making, across the advertising, journalism, and media and cinema studies industries. 

Media students gain real-world experiences through:

Through ADV 498: The Sandage Project, create an advertising campaign in a service-learning project
Through various journalism courses, work in a professional newsroom and studio to produce broadcasts on UI7
Through MACS 366: Film Festivals, organize, produce, and promote the annual Illinois Student Film Festival
A variety of media-related student organizations
The campus student-run organization Illini Media (home to The Daily Illini newspaper, The Illio yearbook, WPGU 107.1 FM, and more)
Illinois Public Media, including the Illinois Student Newsroom at IPM
Community engagement opportunities
Producing individual and team-based projects
Internships and fellowships