The School of Communication at Western Michigan University offers a journalism major and minor. Both provide training in AP style writing and focus on investigative print journalism.

Journalism study provides you a thorough background in news reporting and writing, journalism law and journalism ethics. You will learn communication theory, journalism research, feature and article writing, reviewing for the press, newspaper writing and reporting, reporting public affairs, copy and content editing, journalism ethics, electronic editing, telecommunication, broadcast journalism, literary journalism, literary interpretation, television criticism, mass communication and documentary in film and television