by: Pamela Whitten on Friday May 11, 2012
Last Saturday, we celebrated with outstanding alumni, friends and our Media Sandbox finalists to recognize each of them for their phenomenal work for the college. The Media Sandbox is MSU’s destination for talented and creative students who want to study the latest tools, work with the best faculty and prepare for the media world of the future. Here students s…
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by: CAS Staff on Tuesday May 01, 2012
This innovative, interdisciplinary learning experience brings together top J-School design faculty with others from Advertising, Telecommunications and the Art Department to study the principles of design and explore real-world design problems in a collaborative environment.
Students learn the foundation of design, develop core competencies in a primary area of study, broaden their understanding of how design is incorporated into human communication and products.
J-School students learn the skills to land internships and jobs as graphic artists, information graphics designers and designers for news organizations. Student must apply for entry into the Specialization.
For further information, contact Stratton Lee, J-School adviser, at leestrat@msu.edu.
Undergraduate students in the School of Journalism can earn a specialization in environmental studies. They also can earn a certificate in environmental journalism offered by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.
To earn a specialization in environmental studies they must take four courses dealing with environmental issues that are on an approved list of the Residential Initiative for the Study of the Environment (RISE) program.
To earn a certificate in environmental journalism they must obtain a specialization in environmental studies and also take six credits in environmental journalism.
For further information, contact Stratton Lee, J-School adviser at leestrat@msu.edu.
What do "Man on Wire," "An Inconvenient Truth," "The Fog of War," "The March of the Penguins," "Born into Brothels," and "Bowling for Columbine" have in common? They are all Academy Award-winning documentaries. They are all powerful and compelling stories based on real-life ideas and issues and people, and they move us and enlighten us in ways that fiction film does not.
Have you ever looked at the photographs of Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, or Henri Cartier Bresson? Have you visited lensculture.com or magnumphotos.com? Check them out, and be prepared to be blown away.
This is the documentary tradition, and MSU now offers a Specialization in Documentary Studies that will prepare you to be a part of that tradition. Our focus is on the history, theory and production of documentary forms and modes of expression. That means film, video, audio, web, photography?any medium with which you can examine the wonder and complexity of the real world.
Our focus is on bringing high-level production and analysis together to produce theoretically informed work. Students will gain a cutting-edge understanding of the challenges of representing reality. We will screen the best works of the present and the past, work in teams to create short- and long-form documentaries, and interact with the best of contemporary documentarians. Graduates of the specialization will be prepared for success in the world of the documentary, whether it is in journalism; public or cable television; or independent or feature films.
Students enrolled in bachelor?s programs at Michigan State University are eligible to apply for the specialization if they are sophomores in good standing.
The Documentary Studies Specialization is a great complement to our multimedia curriculum, and might be considered by students who?ve taken and enjoyed the various multimedia-related classes offered through the Journalism School and in the rest of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.
The primary pool of students that the specialization will draw from will be in the School of Journalism; Media Arts and Technology in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media; The Department of English; and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture. However, students in other academic disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Students should apply for the specialization by a specific date in the spring of their sophomore year. To apply, students must submit an application available in the advising offices of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and the College of Arts and Letters.
Applications will be reviewed and decisions made before the start of annual enrollment of the spring semester. The reviews will be made by a subset of faculty members from both colleges who will teach in the specialization.
The next application deadline is Feb. 15, 2010.
A student must complete a minimum of 15 credits from the list of Documentary Studies Specialization courses that can be taken in many combinations while also fulfilling the requirements for related majors.
View the List of Documentary Studies Specializations Courses
For more information about the specialization, contact:
Bob Albers
435 Comm Arts & Science
East Lansing, MI 48824-1212
Tel: 517-355-6559
Email: albers@msu.edu
Web site: http://www.msu.edu/~albers
Office: Telecom, Information Studies & Media
Title: Sr Speclst-Teacher
Stratton Lee III
Academic Adviser
189 Comm Arts & Science
East Lansing, MI 48824-1212
Tel: 517.432.1134
Fax: 517.355.3346
E-mail: leestrat@msu.edu
Schedule an advising appointment online
The specialization in public relations is available as an option to students in the School of Journalism and the Departments of Advertising, Public Relations, and Retailing and Communication.
The specialization is designed to provide a broad understanding of the role of public relations in contemporary society, as well as knowledge and experience in developing public relations materials for use in corporate, governmental and nonprofit organizational settings.
Areas of focus include public relations and society, writing for the media, public relations techniques, research methods and campaigns. In combination with the student's major, the program will provide training for students seeking entry-level positions in the industry.
Students must apply and be accepted into the PR Specialization. JRN majors in the PR Specialization should work with J-School chief academic adviser, Lee Stratton at leestrat@msu.edu
