October 2012
3 posts
Rob Brown in the Salem News →
SSU Students: Opportunity to lead community...
Interested in politics? Want to discuss the debates and expand your education outside of the classroom? The Political Science, Communications and History Departments are hosting a series of events to take place at King’s Beach Towers in Lynn, MA and is seeking students to take part in the conversations. To participate, you need to watch at least one of these debates: October 3—Domestic Policy...
September 2012
1 post
The Communications Department wants YOU!
The Communications Department is seeking students to form a Student Advisory Group (SAG) to represent student interests and act as a liaison between students and the department. As a SAG representative, you’d also participate in on-campus events such as “Meet Your Major” and other programming offered by the department. Monthly meetings will be arranged.
Sign up Today!
July 2012
2 posts
New Course! Trending Topics in Health and Medical...
Post by Ellen Golub
New Course for fall semester:
Professor Ellen Golub’s COM 472 - Trending Topics in
Health and Medical Journalism
Once classic assessment of journalism education is that schools teach the discipline well, but students graduate without any substantive knowledge—they’re weak in subject areas, the beats. That’s why I decided to teach a course in health and medical...
We’ll be back soon.
Post by Chris Fauske You’ll be back, too, or starting at SSU. Either way, there’ll be a lot we’ll expect you to read, a lot you should read anyway, and a lot that someone, somewhere, will one day assume you’ve read. How to cope? The answer is here:
The irony is that you’ll need to read (really read) the book to find out how to how to talk about books you haven’t read. It’s worth...
June 2012
1 post
Post by Chris Fauske
In Halifax, Nova Scotia, last week for the biennial gathering of Money, Power and Print: interdisciplinary studies of the financial revolution in the British Isles, 1688 - 1776 I walked past a very large hole in the ground. Obviously, whatever had stood above the hole, the size of a city block, had recently been razed. The answer came instantly. What had once stood in the...
May 2012
6 posts
Summer is here...
Post by Chris Fauske
Summer is here, and soon enough it will be hot, hazy and humid enough that thoughts will turn to how best to get cool again.
What better time to catch up with those films all Communications majors should know well enough to move in and out of at will?
Not clips. Not summaries.
Just the whole film, all of it.
The Birth of a Nation (dir. D. W. Griffith)
Battleship Potemkin...
PRSSA Students Win Bell Ringer Award
Post by Robert Brown
The SSU Public Relations Society of America team (Ellory Jacobs, Lauren Charbonneau, Amy Ouelette, Roberta Lantigua) has been notified that it has won a Public Affairs award from the Publicity Club of New England and will attend the annual Bell Ringer Awards dinner on June 4 at the Waltham-Marriott Hotel. The campaign, designed to raise awareness about the nation’s...
COM Senior Honored at State House
COM senior Jacquelynn Palazola received a “29 Who Shine” Award award from Governor Deval Patrick at the State House last week. Photo credit: KulbakoPhoto.com
It’s busy here.
Post by Chris Fauske
There is so much learning going on it’s hard to keep up with the students in our introductory class. I’m teaching two sections and it’s been exciting joining in the journey through Paul Starr’s The Creation of the Media and Asa Briggs and Peter Burke’s A Social History of the Media, stopping along the way at such questions as whether we are bowling alone or are lost in the...
April 2012
2 posts
Congrats to our PRSSA and Log Students
Post by: Judi Puritz Cook, Ph.D.
Our PRSSA and Log students received recognition for their work in the Student Government Association at today’s SGA student leadership luncheon.
Communications senior Michael Anderson received SGA’s “Unsung Hero” award for his work as editor of The Log student newspaper. He was credited with being the driving force behind making sure the...
SSU Chapter of the American Advertising Federation...
Post by: Judi Puritz Cook, Ph.D.
Over the weekend, Salem State University members of the American Advertising Federation student chapter participated in the 2012 National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) on the Emerson College campus. The district competition brought together advertising students from area colleges such as Boston University, Emerson College, Johnson & Wales...
