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Professor Alberto Cacicedo, Chair
Professors Mary Jane Androne and Richard Androne
Associate Professors Gary Adlestein , Jon Bekken, Director of the Program in Communications, Teresa Gilliams, Lawrence Morris, and Melissa Nicolas, Director of the Writing Center
Assistant Professors Ethan Joella, Director of the ESL Program, Katherine Lehman and Margaret Rakus
Instructors Denise Greenwood , Maria Mogford, Marion Piccolomini and Marian Wolbers
Lecturers Theresa Barbieri, Evelyn Christian, Diane Conrad, James Gaffney, Stephanie Herbein, Dorothy Hoerr, Heather L. Kendall, Rachel Liberatore, Maria McDonnell, Theodore Silar, Jim Speese, Claudia Strauss and Jerry Tartaglia
Concentration in Communications
The communications concentration requires 12 courses, including a core of intellectually rigorous conceptual courses and professional skills courses with a strong emphasis on journalism. The core courses provide a broad, critical and humanistic understanding of the communication process and its interaction with society. Other courses allow students to refine their skills in journalism, advertising, public relations and electronic publishing. The communications concentration prepares students for careers in the mass media and for advanced study in communications. It also helps students become informed and critical consumers of media products
Requirements:
- ENG 250 (Mass Communications & Society)
- ENG 320 (System of Free Expression) F
- ENG 321 (Communication History) S
- ENG 333 (Practicum in Communications) (Prerequisite: ENG 222 or 317)
- ENG 480 (Senior Seminar in Communication Research) F (Prerequisite: ENG 250)
- ENG 490 (Senior Seminar: Issues in Mass Communication) S (Prerequisite: ENG 480)
Three elective courses from the following, at least one of which must be in the communications area: Journalism: ENG 230 or 231, ENG 255, ENG 283, ENG 314, ENG 317, ENG 318, ENG 327, ENG 383, ART 215, ART 216, DIG 201, DIG 301, DIG 315, ENG 235, HIS 207, IDS 208, IDS 240, IDS 252, PHI203, SOC 331
Public Relations: ENG 222, ENG 230 or 231, ENG 255, ENG 314, ENG 316, ENG 318, ENG 319, ENG 383, ART 215, ART 265, DIG 201, DIG 301, DIG 315, HIS 207, PHI 150, PHI 203, SOC 331
No courses can be used to fulfill both a general studies and concentration requirement. Other electives may be allowed with the permission of the department chair.
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Co-Concentration in Communications
The communications co-concentration is a group of seven courses that can combine with any other Albright College dual concentration program. It includes a core of intellectually rigorous conceptual courses and a choice of professional skills courses. Within the professional module, students may elect to refine their skills in journalism, advertising and public relations, oral and written communication and electronic publishing.
Requirements:
Co-concentrators schedule seven courses divided among three core courses, three professional courses that must be a part of either a journalism or a corporate communications track, and a practicum with an off-campus media organization.
• Core courses ENG 250, 320, 490
• Three of the following: ENG 222, 230, 231, 255, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 327, 337
• Journalism students must schedule ENG 222 and 315. Corporate communications students must schedule ENG 327 or 337 and 317
• ENG 333
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