1900s

• Professor Frank W. Scott started the journalism department. It began with a class that was part of the English department.

• The first journalism class was offered at the University in 1902. The description read "the making of summaries and abstracts, advertising, proof-reading and the preparation of manuscripts for the press." Two years later a second course was offered.

• Between 1907 and 1908 four courses were added: newspaper writing, extended assignments, editing and editorial writing, and agricultural journalism. The following year the classes were consolidated into newspaper writing and advanced newspaper writing.

• In 1909 Scott persuaded the University to offer a four-year journalism curriculum.