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The School of Communication is at a crucial point in our development and we need your help! The School of Communication is establishing a Student Advisory Board to work with SoC leadership and provide insight to enhance and grow our school’s programming. The Student Advisory Board will work closely with the Dean’s office on relevant events and projects.

All School of Communication students are welcome to apply for a position on our Student Advisory Board. Applications are due by Friday, November 3rd.

If you have any questions, plase email aweber@chapman.edu or socsenator@chapman.edu.

Apply here!

The M.S. Program in Health and Strategic Communication Presents: The Role of Communication in Improving Health Literacy, featuring Sandy Hilfiker, on Monday, October 23 from 4-5:15 in AF 209A.

Effective health communication is critical to improving health literacy, or an individual's ability to find, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services. Sandy's talk will focus on the role of health communication in improving health literacy, including strategies for developing clear health information and enabling productive interactions between health care providers and patients. She will also discuss the role of applied communication research in developing clear communication and improved health systems. This talk is relevant to students and faculty interested in health, organizational, and strategic communication, and principles of persuasion and message design. We hope to see you there!

Join the School of Communication leadership for coffee and informal conversation. Ask questions, advice, and share your ideas about our School of Communication. We look forward to seeing you.

Join Lambda Pi Eta for our monthly meeting on Wednesday, October 25 at 6:00pm in AF 119A! All School of Communication students are invited to hear representatives from the Career and Professional Development Center discuss Cover Letters and Resumes.

Stick around for PIZZADVISING immediately following the meeting!

Pizza + Advising (PizzAdvising) will immediately follow the Lambda Pi Eta meeting in AF 119. Around 7:30, we will move to AF 209B. Stop by and grab some pizza! SoC faculty will help you answer any and all questions you have about registration for Interterm and Spring 2018!

Meet reps from the world’s leading global media and entertainment company! iHeartMedia isn’t just in the business of radio- they also specialize in digital, outdoor, mobile, social live events and on-demand entertainment.

Learn what it takes to land a job/internship and succeed at an American mass media company.

Getting ready for registration? Major questions about your major?

Advising Things for new School of Communication students or any School of COM student who is curious about courses in the School of COM, minors, careers, catalog years, internships, and more!
Bring your laptops. At 1:30 we will have an interactive discussion about all of these topics. We will continue with open advising beginning at 2:00.

Have you checked our Interterm 2018 Course Offerings?

The School of Communication will be offering multiple courses over Interterm including:

COM 210: Theories of Persuasion

COM 310: Business and Professional Communication

SCC 329: Capacity Building in Organizations

COM 351: Propaganda and Public Opinion

COM 482: Advanced Health Communication

See below to learn more about two of these upper division courses that can count towards upper division electives for both SCC and COM:

SCC 329: Capacity Building in Organizations

What does it take for an organization to perform, grow, and reinvent itself? SCC 329: Capacity Building in Organizations will explore the essential building blocks of organizational capacity for innovations, including expertise, knowledge, personnel, technologies, policies, funding, etc. This new course will examine how communication plays a role in obtaining and sustaining these building blocks by covering a range of organizational forms, such as start-up ventures, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, academic entrepreneurism, and global developments. In a mini-research project, the course will also be hands-on in analyzing interviews with big data technology experts.

Sign up quickly, since seats are limited! Questions? Email Dr. Kerk Kee at kee@chapman.edu

COM 351: Propaganda and Public Opinion
“Fake news” may be a popular topic but in reality it’s nothing new. For thousands of years, advocates have used propaganda, sometimes based on less than truthful assertions, to achieve their goals. The times change but many of the techniques remain the same.

This class does not necessarily take a negative view of propaganda. Instead, the class explores how it is employed, and how it is made effective. We start with the most successful movement in history --- Christianity --- and extend our learning into latter movements such as socialism, National Socialism, as well as contemporary propaganda and its use of social media. We will explore this through lectures, outside speakers and critical films, including “Narnia”, “The Battleship Potemkin”, “Triumph of the Will” and “The Battle of Algiers”. 

The lecturer, Joel Kotkin, has extensive media experience making documentaries for German television networks ZDF and ARD, PBS and Channel 11 Fox TV in Los Angeles. He has had columns in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and currently with the OC Register, the Daily Beast, and Forbes. He is the author of nine books, many of them translated into different languages,  and all have appeared in paperback.

The USRC provides an opportunity for undergraduates to submit papers reporting original research (e.g., critical investigation, experimentation, or analysis leading to the discovery or creation of new facts; theories, interpretation, or significant revisions of already existing facts; the practical applications of these new or revised conclusions). Diverse philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome.

The USRC is an extraordinary opportunity for undergraduate scholars and researchers to showcase their work and receive feedback from experienced scholars. Undergraduate students benefit from participating in the research conference by crafting and sharing a professional presentation, meeting other undergraduate scholars in the field, and learning about graduate studies in Communication. The conference concludes with an awards ceremony.

Submission Guidelines
All authors of the submitted papers must be undergraduate students at the time of the submission and cannot be graduate students at the time of the presentation. Students should not submit more than one paper for which they serve as the primary author. Coauthored papers are welcome. Submit: 1) a detachable title page (i.e., saved as a separate WORD document) with the paper title and contact information of all authors; and 2) the paper, including an abstract and references. Papers should be no more than 25 pages in length. All submissions should be Microsoft WORD documents.

Students must submit the title page and separate paper by December 1, 2017. Please email your document to Donna Gotch at dgotch@csusb.edu. All authors will be notified of paper acceptances by January 9, 2018.

Conference Registration
For those students whose papers are accepted, WSCA will provide complimentary registration to the rest of the WSCA Convention. The registration fee for the USRC is $15 for those presenting papers.