Students interested in the sports journalism area of emphasis will have a front-row seat at a university in the top-rated Southeastern Conference. Journalism majors who work for student media cover Auburn football, basketball, baseball, gymnastics, soccer, swimming, diving and a host of other collegiate, club and intramural sports. Through their journalism courses, students will learn the art of sports storytelling, how to go behind the players stats and game scores to report compelling stories, how to break news across multiple platforms and what sports and media mean to our society. Through non-journalism electives, students will learn about economic analysis of professional and collegiate sports, health promotion, coaching, sports psychology, principles of marketing, management and promotion, the relationship between nutrition and sports performance, and the culture of sports in America.