Communication major Nick Clemente shares his internship experiences at the Spring Internship Showcase |
Communication is the study of how people make meaning. At Wittenberg, the Department of Communication adopts a broad perspective on this topic by challenging students to examine the nature, processes, and effects of human symbolic interaction in a number of contexts. These include the study of rhetoric, media, and culture.
Our communication major reinforces Wittenberg's liberal arts mission rather than narrowly training a student for a particular career. Our students develop the capacities to recognize and evaluate underlying assumptions and values; to work effectively with others through collaboration, team work and community building; to participate in mediation and conflict resolution; to develop aural, visual, technological, and information literacy—all knowledge and skills that we believe are imperative for a quality life in the 21st century. Students also have the opportunities to apply their understandings of communication through courses or internships. The major culminates in a capstone project during the senior year, for which our students have prepared by taking courses in communication theory and research methods.
Yesterday's Comm Major is Today's Working Professional No question sends chills into the hearts of graduating seniors more than “What are you Spring Colloquium 2010 Students, mark your calendars for the Department's Spring Colloquium featuring Dr. Ronald C. Arnett of Duquesne University. Dr. Arnett, whose talk is entitled "Communication Ethics in an Age of Narrative and Virtue Contention," will be speaking on Tuesday, March 16th at 4:00 p.m. in Bayley Auditorium. The department would like to remind students that attendance is required for all Communication majors.
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Lambda Pi Eta Peer Tutors Announced The Communication Department would like to congratulate the Lambda Pi Eta members who have been selected as peer tutors for the Spring 2010 semester: COMM 190 - Tayler Rengel & Allie Persinger COMM 200 - Amy Prugh & Jen Dick COMM 270S - Katie Nemeth & Leslie Chasteen COMM 290S - Katherine Fernholz & Maryam Rezayat COMM 300 - Erin McIlvain & Lilly Manzi
Communication Studies, Community, and Chicago, Oh My! Communication faculty and students from across the country attended this year’s National Communication Association’s (NCA) 95th annual convention in The trip to the Windy city was a whirlwind of panel discussions, lectures, and workshops, a number of which were led by Wittenberg faculty and students.
Making Camp a Hit with National Audience When Wittenberg Communication professor Dr. Catherine Egley Waggoner returned from Chicago
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going to do after you graduate?” In the current job market, hopes of landing a dream job and achieving immediate success have been replaced with simple wishes for employment in whatever form in presents itself. For Kelly Eggers, who graduated from Wittenberg last year with a degree in Communication, the post-collegiate road seemed like a dim one until a lucky break and a lot of hard work landed her in New York City working for The Today Show’s top financial expert, Jean Chatzky. 
Chicago. Wittenberg’s Department of Communication faculty were joined at the convention, themed “Discourses of Stability and Change”, by two senior Communication majors, Alexandra Persinger and Emily Willis. 
for the National Communication Association (NCA) Conference, she had more to think back on than the usual bouts of lectures and paper presentations. Her book, Making Camp: Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture, received the Best Book Award from the Critical Studies Division and The Bonnie Ritter Award from the Women's Caucus/Feminist and Women's Studies Division of the NCA, as well as much acclaim at this year’s conference.