When Huang went to the U.S. to study in 1955 his original ambition was to become a professor, and he studied sociology before switching to mass communications. "Everybody emphasized the written media at the time," he recalls, "and the image media had only begun to be noticed."
一九五五年，他赴美留學，原來的志願是當教授，念了社會學後，轉攻大眾傳播，「當時大家都重視文字傳播，影像傳播才剛開始受注意」，黃建勳回憶。