A.Q. Miller College of Media and Communication develops new method to communication research

Extra alternatives, extra lessons, extra connections, extra pathways. 

For months, management inside the Division of Communication Research and the A.Q. Miller College of Journalism and Mass Communications labored to develop a brand new faculty to suit the wants of scholars, in accordance with Jana Thomas, a professor of apply within the A.Q. Miller College of Media and Communication and assistant director for promoting and public relations. The consequence? The A.Q. Miller College of Media and Communication.  

“It was established over the summer time,” Thomas stated.  “It was a protracted course of. [The school’s leadership team] had been working for over a yr to re-envision what this new collective may appear like.”

Via this imaginative and prescient of what communication research at Kansas State could possibly be, the brand new faculty supplies all college students with sufficient sources to succeed, in accordance with Greg Paul, professor and director of the A.Q. Miller College of Media and Communication. 

“I feel the coursework that makes up the curriculum is top-notch. . .as a result of the people who find themselves educating these programs are actually considerate about what they train,” Paul stated. “So within the design course of [there was]. . . plenty of consideration to element over what’s going to assist make college students prepared of their careers, of their relationships, of their communities.”

Paul stated combining the coursework and the school to develop a sophisticated program has allowed for the creation of recent undergraduate and graduate diploma packages. These new diploma packages embody a bachelor of arts/science in promoting and public relations, communication research, information and sports activities media, digital innovation in media, and grasp’s in mass communication and communication research. 

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“So we have now [a new degree in] information and sports activities media,” Anne Bryant, communication and advertising and marketing specialist for the A.Q. Miller College of Media and Communication, stated. “So that is what we’d historically name journalism. This program teaches college students tips on how to write, analysis, talk visually, like with images and video, about information points, however actually about something. It helps college students discover ways to create content material, after which they will have some actually useful experiences by way of scholar media that may assist them with their skilled careers.”

Malea Karnes, sophomore in mass communications, is discovering the advantages and alternatives included within the new faculty. 

“There’s extra happening [in the new school],” Karnes stated. “And so we’re going to turn into extra rounded college students. Not solely am I studying tips on how to do writing, I’m additionally studying how photograph and video can be being finished. I’m studying so many issues, which goes to assist me sooner or later and make me extra ready for any kind of place that I’m going to enter.”

Thomas stated all through the brand new faculty and the quite a few adjustments on this division, one factor stays the identical: the objective to assist each scholar do their greatest. 

“There’s a lot extra alternative for our college students,” Thomas stated. “Extra lessons, extra programs, extra ideas about how they will take their pursuits and passions and perhaps even profession trajectory or what their profession pursuits are. . .[it] simply opens up new avenues of analysis and collaborating collectively to create new choices for our college students. So, extra, extra, extra.”