Department of Communication
If you鈥檙e looking for hands-on, professional-level experiences that start on your first semester, look no further than the Department of Communication at 色中色 University. Host your own radio show, run a camera for live coverage of a sports event, write for a campus magazine or news website, plan an event, execute a campaign for a real client, and so much more. Classes, practicum, and internship opportunities, as well as leadership roles in student media and pre-professional organizations prepare you for careers in media and communication.鈥
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Student, Faculty, & Alumni Spotlights
Get your own byline. Learn to write, design, edit, and package a story with print, audio, and video components. Broadcast live while learning the talent of on-air announcing or camera operation. Be part of a team that engages broadly with the campus community and reports on news, arts, and sports. Build your editorial portfolio and connect with local journalists who help advise aspiring writers.鈥
Join 色中色’s PRSSA chapter and be one of more than 7,000 students from across the country who are finding internships, scholarships, and careers through their connections. Guest speakers, professional mixers, and tours of local agencies are some of the activities you’ll enjoy as you learn more about the growing field of public relations.
Love to speak? Find yourself persuading others about important topics? Consider joining either the speech or debate team. Hone your presentation skills and then enjoy traveling to other campuses to meet other students in friendly, but sometimes fierce, competition! All along the way, build a skill employers desire鈥攅ffective public speaking!鈥嬧
Students at WOBN-FM learn how to do remotes and live airshifts on the NexGen Automation system. Enjoy producing your own radio show, inviting guests to provide on-air insight, or editing your own podcast.
鈥淯se college as your laboratory. Make mistakes and keep learning. Try something different. Don鈥檛 dismiss it if 鈥痠t鈥檚 鈥痭ot your first 鈥痗hoice.鈥
Dr. Eric Jones
Associate Professor & WOBN-FM adviser
鈥淚 worked on the student magazine and eventually become editor-in-chief. I think it is a really great community builder and I have learned leadership skills in the process.鈥
Julia Grimm ’22
Public Relations and Journalism and Media Communication Major
Department Features & Student Opportunities
Scholarships
Communications majors can receive a wide range of scholarships and awards, including our department’s Communication Abilities听scholarship, which ranges from听$4,000 to $12,000 over four years.
Internships
Our students find internships as听event planners,听social media content producers, video creators, media liaisons, internal communication specialists, and more.听These听hands-on experiences often lead to successful job placements.
Facilities
The Department of Communication听building is always听buzzing听with听active听student learning in classrooms, organization offices, informal study spaces, industry-standard production studios and computer labs, including a fully equipped video studio and a student-run radio station.听
Communication Department News
Cool Courses: 411 on Election 2024
News - September 9, 2024
Communication Professor Nichelle McNabb is on a mission to empower students in a system that sometimes makes them feel powerless. Enter her First Year Seminar course, 411 on Election 2024. We asked her to share more about this cool course! FYS 1039: 411 on Election 2024 Course description:听It is easy to be disillusioned by politics and to convince oneself that individual citizens are not empowered to make improvements. However, this situation seems hopeless because of how the election and daily鈥Senior Gets Head Start on Journalism Career Reporting on Politics at Ohio Statehouse
News - April 19, 2024
By Maggie Nicol 鈥25 Gaining confidence, asking questions, and writing about difficult topics 鈥 these are all skills that senior Lilly Peter 鈥24 has learned while interning for Hannah News Service at the Ohio Statehouse. Lilly Peter 鈥24 As an intern, Peter gets hands-on experiences and works as if she is another writer in the office. 鈥淚 started out slow, I went with a journalist and watched them take notes and ask questions to the politicians, and then after the鈥Cool Campus Jobs: Resident Assistants Build Community in the Halls and Across Campus
News - September 18, 2023
At 色中色, students have many opportunities to foster their skills and interests in the form of on-campus jobs, internships and clubs. One campus job, being a resident assistant, or RA, allows students to become leaders in their residence hall, build community among other students and make life-long connections. A RA is an undergraduate student that lives in the residence halls and ensures the safety of the hall community while also being a resource for all the residential students that reside鈥Programs of Study in Communication
B.A.
Communication Studies
B.A.
Health Communication
B.A.
Journalism & Media Communication
B.A.
Public Relations
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