Recent Department of Communication News
Communication Dept. Events
- Can it be registration time already? The calendar says yes….so
visit our page of advice on scheduling, check out our
notes on Spring 2010 courses,
or download our
Spring 2010 Electives Guide!
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2009 NAVA Awards -The Nova Audio-Visual Awards
- December 9, 2009 Connelly Cinema 5:00pm - Submission
information including Entry Rules, Guidelines and Applications can be
found here!
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Communication Career Day Application
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Graduate Studies in Communication offers its second installment of the
2009-2010 speaker series, Communication and the Knowledge Economy.
Dr. Elliot Schreiber, Professor of Marketing and Executive
Director of the Center for Corporate Reputation Management at Drexel
University, will present a lecture entitled: "Values: The Foundation
of Reputation and Rebuilding Public Trust." The lecture will take
place on Thursday, November 19, from 1:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. in
Bartley Hall Room 1011. Come join us!
Communication Dept. News
- New!: The Communication Department is proud to
announce the launch of a new Virtual Reality tour, created by students and
faculty involved in our worldwide-exclusive
Vatican Internship program: the Virtual Tour of St. John Lateran, in
Rome. To see the tour,
click here. This tour is creating quite a stir, for its unprecedented
view of this stunning basilica. To read more "behind the scenes" stories
about the tour, check out the
article from Catholic News Service, check out the
FaceBook posting on the virtual tour, or check out our own Gustavo
Solis' (Fall 09 Vatican intern)
"behind the scenes" blog.
- The Communication Department's
Vatican Internship program also got a lot of press coverage over the
summer. To read about the creation of our first amazing (and technologically
cutting-edge) Virtual Reality tours,
click here; to read about how one of our students helped the Pope launch
his YouTube channel,
click here. Keep watching this space for our next WORLDWIDE
EXCLUSIVE, VIRTUAL REALITY TOUR (Hint: think Michelangelo!)
- COM students helping Nova Nation: Students from Prof. Bill
Cowen's Public Relations Campaigns course are working to help promote a new
company, Adography, created by two other Villanovans. Want to read about it?
Click here!
- The Price of Life Hits the Road: In Spring, 2009, Department
student and faculty collaborated in an innovative Communication course
united the technical skills of documentary filmmaking with the desire to
produce social change. The film they produced, "The Price of Life," also
gained a great deal of attention this summer, and is currently being
submitted to film festivals across the country--and was shortlisted for the
Academy Awards. Now our faculty and students are taking the film around to
different audiences, using the film to help create social change. One such
showing was at Sharon Hill School--click
here to read about it! To read a story about the origin of the project,
click here, or
visit the film's
website. Want to be involved in the creation of our next Social Justice
Documentary?
Click here to check out our notes about Spring, 2010 COM courses!
Faculty News
- Professor Len Shyles was featured in a recent Associated Press story on the
recent rescue of a failing newspaper by the state of New Hampshire.
Click here to read it!
- Professor Hezekiah Lewis was featured in a recent Boxoffice magazine story
about the return of war films.
Click here to read it!
- Professor John O'Leary was featured in a recent story on the new Michael
Jackson film, "This Is It," in the Christian Science Monitor.
Click here to read it (or
click
here to see the story as used by an ABC-TV affiliate)!
- Professor Susan Mackey-Kallis was one of six faculty from across the country
to offer a seminar at the 2009 National Communication Association Institute for
Faculty Development. Dr. Mackey-Kallis' seminar was entitled, "The Rhetorical,
Phenomenological, and Critical Dimensions of Teaching with Film." For more
information on the Conference,
click here.
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