In an effort to stay current in a rapidly changing, increasingly Internet-based media industry, Point Park’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication will become the new School of Communication, the university announced late last month.
The school’s journalism department programs, which currently enroll more than 500 undergraduates and nearly 100 graduate students, will join Point Park’s other schools (Arts and Sciences, Business and the Conservatory of Performing Arts) as the new School of Communication. Throughout the 2008-09 academic year, the faculty of the current Department of Journalism and Mass Communication will restructure into the new School of Communication. A national search for a dean will be conducted simultaneously and the new School of Communication will be in place for the start of the 2009-2010 academic year.
Over the past eight years, Point Park University has invested in a $2.5 million television studio and control room and launched U-View, a student-run news and entertainment television network. The Point Park News Service was established in 2005 to allow student articles to be distributed for publication through newspapers, Web sites and broadcast outlets.
The new School of Communication will continue to offer the following degrees: Bachelor of Arts in advertising and public relations, broadcasting, journalism, digital media, photojournalism and secondary education-mass communication; Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography; Post-Baccalaureate Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and mass communication and secondary education-mass communication; Bachelor of Science in integrated marketing communications; and Master of Arts in journalism and mass communication. The faculty plans to add additional degrees once the restructuring is complete.
Source: Ginny Frizzi, Point Park University
Writer: John Davidson
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