Science Communication (Science Writing)
College or University: University of California, Santa Cruz
Type of degree: M.A.
Brief overview of program: The women and men who popularize science enjoy a career that never loses its zing. They stay in close touch with cutting-edge science and with the world's leading scientists, often by visiting with them in their labs or in the field. Science writers choose from a wide variety of career options: newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, public information, and educational writing for research institutions such as national laboratories, universities, aquariums, and zoos.
The science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has produced professionally trained science writers since 1981. The program is one academic year long, plus a summer internship. It's the only graduate science writing program in the nation that requires significant previous science training.
Program graduates are working at National Public Radio and the American Museum of Natural History, at national magazines in New York City and Washington, D.C., at daily newspapers from Los Angeles and Philadelphia to Bend, Oregon, and Sioux Falls, S.D. — to name only a few sites. About half of our alumni freelance, mainly to live where they want.
Website: Click here for program website
Email: scicom@ucsc.edu Institution address: University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street
Santa Cruz,CA 95064
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