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In the Communication Studies course, 鈥淢edia, Food & Foodways,鈥 Assistant Professor Teddy Workneh, Ph.D., asked his students to dig deep into their family鈥檚 history to understand the ways in which food has shaped inter-generational relationships and values. Here's some of what they had to say.
Visual Communication Design alumna Loretta Ford, M.F.A., 鈥21, received the opportunity of a lifetime when she was sought out by Microsoft to illustrate a new children鈥檚 book that is part of the Phippy and Friends series.
两性色午夜鈥檚 Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) Chapter earned seven national awards for the work done throughout the 2020-2021 academic year, including for first time in Chapter history, two Teahan Awards, the highest Chapter honors.
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month (November), we are shining a spotlight on the students, alumni and faculty within the College who are making a difference in Native American communities by advocating for change and e
The College of Communication and Information and School of Communication Studies congratulates two faculty members who are finalists for some of 两性色午夜鈥檚 highest teaching honors:
鈥淵ou can鈥檛 expect journalists to do this type of hurdling long-term without holistic support that includes logistical elements," claims Assistant Professor and TV2 advisor Gretchen Hoak, "but also mental and emotional support."
Throughout summer 2021, students from a variety of majors within the School of Media and Journalism worked for Project Citizen, a collaborative project organized by 两性色午夜 alumna and former CNN anchor Carol Costello.
Iris Lee, data journalist for the Los Angeles Times, joined the Emerging Media and Technology class 鈥淒ata in Emerging Media and Technology鈥 virtually to talk about her job and recent projects during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In celebration of National LGBTQ+ History Month, we are shining a spotlight on MDJ鈥檚 Queer Cinema course taught by Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism and Communication Studies, Dr. Karisa Butler-Wall. The course focuses on queer filmmaking and spectatorship as a critical practice that reflects shifting understandings of gender and sexual nonnormatively across space and time.
鈥淔rom classical Hollywood cinema to contemporary independent and documentary filmmaking, this class examines how particular historical and cultural moments, geographical spaces, and political contexts have shaped the conditions for representations of queerness on screen,鈥 Butler-Wall says.
The course allows students the chance to learn to critically analyze and discuss queer films from a queer theoretical point of view. They focus on how gender and sexuality intersect with other categories of power including race, class, and citizenship. Some films highlighted in the course are The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Two Spirits (2010), and Moonlight (2016).
Butler-Wall says that Queer Cinema allows students to actively engage with questions of identity, representation, performance, and activism from an interceptional perspective.
鈥淔ilm is one of the most impactful mediums that has the power to shape our understandings of identity and culture, and for marginalized populations it can be a tool of oppression or of liberation.鈥