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Communication
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222 Eisenberg Building
724-738-2032
Chair
Mark Zeltner
Assistant Chair
Mark Chase
Secretary
Marilyn Garczynski
Faculty
Richard Arthur, Mark Banks, Brett Barnett, Mark Chase, Robert Fidoten, Thomas Flynn, Jennifer Foster, Joseph Harry, James Laux, Christine Pease-Hernandez, Alison Plessinger, Thomas Stewart, Valerie Swarts, Jennifer Foster, Amy Walters, Mark Zeltner
Communication is the means whereby relationships are created and sustained. Studying communication offers students the opportunity to learn about communication as well as to prepare for careers as widely diverse as broadcasting, audio and video production, web site and electronic graphics design, interactive multimedia production, journalism, public relations, speech and public address, and other related professions.
The Department of Communication offers both the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and the Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees. The BA emphasizes a broad liberal arts approach to communication, with five emphasis areas that include broadcasting/media production, public relations and corporate communication, print and broadcast journalism, emerging technologies and multimedia, and speech communication.
The BS degree emphasizes a more concentrated, skill-based approach in one of three tracks: public relations, journalism, and emerging technologies and multimedia.
Students in either degree program will have courses available in several areas. In broadcasting and emerging technologies, courses cover not only the traditional audio and video media, but also multimedia, web design, streaming media, and digital recording and editing in a new $200,000 multimedia laboratory. The explosion of technology and e-commerce has created a huge demand for individuals who can design, produce, and evaluate multimedia programs.
Courses in public and corporate communication cover such areas as public relations writing and campaign design, traditional and new media communication formats, Internet and intranet-based resources, and the latest desktop publishing, graphics, and corporate media capabilities.
Students emphasizing journalism study both the basics of print and broadcast journalism, plus advanced courses in journalism applications, including opportunities for involvement with the campus newspaper, radio, television, and Internet streaming and publishing. The department’s active internship program affords qualified students in all areas the opportunity to test and develop their knowledge and skills.
Throughout the communication program at Slippery Rock, there is an emphasis on the integration of all communication forms and media. By completing a core of courses distributed among all the areas of communication, students are prepared in an all-encompassing array of concepts and skill development in this fast-changing discipline.
The all digital Television Studio, a three-camera color facility, located at 101 Vincent Science Hall, is a newly remodeled facility with a control room, offices, and the studio. The television news: studio production, television news: field production, and the broadcast announcing classes use the facility as a component of the broadcast journalism curriculum. The offices of the student production organization, WSRU-TV, are also located at the facility. This student organization produces variety and interview programs for distribution on the campus cable network.
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