<p>I am Editor-in-Chief of my school newspaper.</p>
<p>Does journalism (i.e. newspaper) count as a fine art?</p>
<p>Nope. srry. </p>
<p>Dictionary def’n:</p>
<p>a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture.</p>
<p>If your school counts it as a fine art class, then yes. Otherwise, no.</p>
<p>generally, fine arts are things like drawing and painting, dance, theater, music, sculture…</p>
<p>Journalism courses are more likely to be english electives. But from your post, it sounds like you aren’t taking a journalism class–you are just a member of your school newspaper? Then it’s not even a class, let alone a fine art.</p>
<p>no it’s a class</p>
<p>it’s just that, since i am EIC, it takes up so much of my time. i actually have it twice, so it counts as 2 of my 7 classes. I don’t have time/room to take a “fine art” so I hate having to put ‘0’ under the fine art section of activities on applications</p>
<p>In my kids school it is considered a “practical” as opposed to a “fine” art. At their school it appers to be distinct from fine art for Univ of Calif purposes.</p>
<p>journalism is far from a fine art… unless you do design for the newspaper.</p>
<p>No. It’s counted as a practical one at my school, though.</p>
<p>Not relevant to the OP, but at my college (Towson) the Journalism department was in the “College of Fine Arts and Communication.” I always thought that was an odd pairing of studies.</p>
<p>(This was back in the '80s. It might have changed by now.)</p>
<p>probably just depends on how you school classifies it. though it’s probably not considered a fine art.</p>