Hello and welcome hopefully you can hear me. Welcome to this communication Department. Little University, Maryland sort of presentation. I'm doctor, Sarah McGee. I am the chair of the Communication Department. So here to tell you a little bit about what our program is what it does and of course answer any questions. You might have, I am a former television news producer Reporter or special projects producer anger, etc. So bear with me as I go through. I know you'll be able to type in questions and I'll answer them as we go.
But hopefully this is going to give you a bit of information about what we do here at Loyola in the Communication Department, which is a fantastic Department and I don't just say that because I share it. But I'm a part of it and there's a lot of exciting and interesting things that happened here kind of talking you through this PowerPoint right next to me that you can all hopefully see you'll notice the first picture is a drone picture of sort of our main campus. So yes, we have drones you can learn to fly drones, an record video with drones as part of our program.
Well, I'd like to say that as we start of- so all kinds of technology that you can get a chance to play around with an learn that will help you in some form of a communication karere or whatever career you might choose so we are the communication Department here at Maryland and our Department consists of a series of course, is I'll kind of go through some of the basics and again as you have questions as we go or at the end. I can answer them in more detail but for our communication major. It is 13 courses so In addition to the 17 core courses that you take as part of their liberal arts across the.
Humanities disciplines science, etc. A communication major is 13 courses and there's a set of course, is that everybody takes an then you can specialize in different areas, so this is just a list of some of our basic courses of the 13 everybody starts with intro to communication. It's kind of an overview of the entire field to get a sense of what it's like how we look at media today how we present media today and to give you a sense of what this incredibly strange yet wonderful field of communication is.
Then we have digital tools, which is a very basic introduction to the Adobe Suite. We are Adobe Here Little perk. If you are a student or faculty member here, you get the Adobe Creative Master Suite as a free download for your years here to one personal device. So while we do have labs. You also get the Adobe systems of Premier Portfolio in design, etc. We use that an you learn about that in our digital tools class, which literally gives you a very basic.
Introduction how to edit a photo how to create a poster things that give you some basics that then allow you to go onto our upper level graphic and design and video and other types of courses, but this gives you a chance to get a sort of exposure to all the different types and then specialize where you want to go media. Writing is very much the same. It's a very basic course that looks at the different types of writing across the media and communication spectrum so little journalism, a little ad PR digital social media to give you a sense of what kind of writing is in the communication field and then also help you.
Figure out what upper level writing courses. You might want to specialize in a writing for PR or news writing or writing for social media course, so the intro to communication digital tools and media writing. Everybody takes and you can take the freshman or sophomore year. There's no prerequisite and then the 4th course of our sort of core for is either fundamentals of advertising and public relations or multimedia story time now. This allows us to do special sequences that you can go in depth into different areas.
Advertising and public relations digital media and journalism, so if you're interested in advertising and public relations. You would take fundamentals of advertising and public relations, which just gives you an overview to the ad NPR failed. It kind of gives you a sense of what it's like to help you figure out do you want to go on and take more courses in that if you're interested in digital media or journalism you take multimedia storytelling, which literally is exposing you to thinking about how to tell story with multimedia format and you just use your Phone.
We actually have you shoot video and audio photos and then we teach you? How to put that together? Which is sort of the set up for the moving on towards the digital or journalism sequence of classes. So you have those 4 basic core courses again. There's no prerequisite so you can come in your freshman year and start taking them. If you're interested to see what the majors like and then there's also special sequences, which we'll talk about in a minute, but throughout your 13 you also have five general CM300 level courses those can be courses.
Across any specialization, they can be more we call our general courses, so that's I teach a class on social media and culture. We have pop culture. There's media ethics. There's entertainment media and politics. Media culture and society so several general classes that give you a little bit more of the critical thinking how we engage with media and really get you thinking about what media is now all of those are then combined with a specialization because you will choose a specialization in one of those, 3 fields that I mentioned.
Now they are digital media advertising and public relations or journalism. We have a 4th one. I'll talk about in a minute, but our main 3 focus on the digital Media, which is graphic and design and video anything like that journalism works with a lot of those but also has more of the traditional journalism and writing and advertising and public relations gets into the creative side of advertising, marketing public relations campaigns, etc. A specialization means you take 3 courses under the digital media or the NPR.
Or the journalism specialization throughout your time to give you some basic skills and then your senior year. You do a capstone in your specialization and that's what makes one of the things I think that makes us very naked. Loool it 'cause these capstones give you real world professional experience in all of our capstones. You work with clients in our community, so real world clients. My current video capstone course is working with the Maryland food bank to do promotional videos. We have worked with Under Armour to do ad campaigns.
But we have done public relations award winning public relations campaigns to combat human trafficking all kinds of things that the students senior year. Take all the skills. They've learned in all those classes and then apply them as they get clients in the community. So they get credit in portfolio were can learn about working in groups and in teams and with a client in the Baltimore community, but then they are also able to provide materials that get used. Under Armour has used some of our students things a lot of them go on websites and with promotions.
So, your capstone is a unique experience where you get to put everything you've learned in the past 3 years into play and you're doing, it for a professional client. So our students really enjoy that 'cause I also sort of caps off a senior year experience where you have fantastic portfolio work and it gets jobs. I can't tell you how many of our students come back and say that capstone project that we did. They were so impressed. It got US jobs and there's all kinds of different things that come out of that, but that along with those other courses make up the 13 for the communication major.
We have this what we call median society specialization that something you take In addition to digital media. Add PR journalism. If you want. It's just more focused on a lot of the more critical cultural thinking and it just allows you to get a specialization around those that complements one of your main Big Three specializations, so in general. That's kind of mean running through the communication courses to get through the major. It's a major that I think is extremely interesting and is always changing we're always.
Constantly updating courses to meet the needs of what employers in the communications world want. We have many alumni that always contact us not only asking do we have people that they can bring for internships or jobs, but also telling us? What types of skills are now in demand, a lot of freelance social media skills are very popular with communication current jobs right now that they're looking for so we're going to do our best to not only give you the basic you learn how to write you learn how to communicate you learn how to do basic design public relations.
But also where do we advance them? How do they advance specially based on the growing media and technology. So it's a very engaged in interactive major we have all your basic requirements, but we also are able to add in different things as they come along that we need to have our students know about and that we want to help them know to be better communicators and that's all wrapped up in the 13 courses you take over the course. But it's not just our course is we have a lot of different activities different things in general, but before I get to those.
I actually have a few slides that elaborate a little bit more on those capstones just to give you a quick sense of what they're like sonar journalism specialization. These are magazine examples. But we now move to multimedia magazines. An multimedia presentations where you do all the research. You write stories you get ads. You create and design basically online magazines in essence websites etc. That work on the journalism and reporting skills, but also brings in design a little bit of ad in sales.
Eve
05:09:35 PM
Are all of these course within a minimum of the 4 years of college?
That if your journalism that's kind of your capstone experience on the digital media side. We have 2 different versions and fall and spring of the capstone if you have web and print media. You're focused more on graphic design your focused more on sometimes web creation, which a lot of clients want. Yes, I'm looking at going to answer questions as we go. Yes, all of these courses are able to be done within the four years with 13 classes. In addition, as long as you take as a general thing 5 classes this semester.
For the four years, you're here, you'll get your 40 courses.
Is that you need it's really a communication major is actually pretty easy to work in with only 13 courses compared to some other majors that tend to be a little bit larger and course requirements, but it is very easy to do in your 4 years, so you'll be able to do a lot of the basic an introductory in beginning level courses. You're a freshman sophomore and junior year and then these capstones will be what you do for your senior year so again if you web and print you kind of design.
More types of things, the video side of it is the one I'm teaching right now and they're actually creating video for social media for websites promotional content stories of what hunger looks like in Maryland that they're going to then do little vignettes of on websites. But you produce different types of video and or web and print for your clients in those digital media capstones and then our advertising capstone again. You work create an ad agency. So we've had Under Armour. ESPN different types of coffee shops different local businesses that want an entire marketing.
An advertising campaign created for them, so you form an ad agency of the class and you do everything from creating public relations campaigns to drawing and creating print and web and social ads and it all comes together. In what we call a plans book, which is what you see here that you can take with you and show your employers. You've done entire capstone or an entire advertising campaign. An students really, really find that these are unique experiences. They tell us that.
Their employers are very impressed with them and then our last capstone is in public relations. This focuses again with clients out in the community that might be interested in public relations be at a campaign be, it social media. We've had actually several nationally recognized and awarded campaigns. This is one of our professors doctor, Tanya Rosmarino, who actually has 1 not only the public relations educator in the year, but they won an presented at the at Annapolis.
Their work on the combating of human trafficking, a huge public relations campaign that got a lot of recognition for bringing light to this very serious matter and then finding ways to combat it. So students did that they created it all, and it's been used in different areas, so those are kind of just the ideas of what you get by your senior year, you put all those skills and design and reporting and journalism and writing production together to create these interesting.
Types of portfolio pieces that also get used by clients and the community, so they're basically getting free campaigns advertising where you're getting credit for it and it goes on your portfolio, which again as I stress as our students, telling me over and over and over again get some jobs so that's something very unique. I think about our communication program is these capstone courses that also play into our loyal is Jesuit mission of getting you engaged with the community students have to go out into the community and learn about these companies and what and how they need how to represent them.
Cam
05:13:26 PM
Is there study abroad programs within Communication department?
Christian
05:13:31 PM
So you take a capstone and then there are supplemental classes to go with it?
And so not only are they learning to work with clients to be professional to work in teams but they're also getting a very good sense of the types of issues that are important not only here in Baltimore. But on a global scale and I think that's something that you don't get it. A lot of places, but you're going to get here in communication so that's kind of the curriculum in general. We have some other things, I'll talk about in a minute, but let's see some of these questions here. So Cameron is there a study abroad program within the Communication Department. We don't have a?
It's not controlled by the communication Department, but we have the study abroad office that works with all the students. I think that last count something like 65% of all of our students probably more do study abroad for a semester in their junior year communications. Students are find it easier at times tickle abroad than some other majors because there's usually at least 1 communication course every place we send students abroad that can transfer back into one of those, 5 general CM300 level electives and we're always adding and working with those.
Carolyn
05:14:34 PM
Can you do a communications internship abroad and get class credit?
So it's definitely I would venture to say probably out of our our majors. More than 50% of the communication majors end up going abroad and they find it that they can you know have a little easier time because they can take one or 2 communication courses at the foreign University that will transfer back as one of those, 13 credits so well. We don't run it. We know that it's a very popular and with communication major it's easier to go abroad.
So Christian you take a capstone and then there are supplemental classes to go with it. Yes, the capstone is your senior year So what you're doing in your freshman sophomore and junior year is taking all these different 300 level classes that we call them. So if your digital media person. You're taking graphics and video you're taking broadcast production. If you're advertising your taking advertising management. Advertising copywriting journalism news reporting and writing broadcast production, etc. So you're taking all these classes.
In your first three years that build up those skills so that your senior year, you will actually take the capstone. So it all builds on each other sort of a stepping.
Up the stairs type program that students really seemed to work because you get to learn the skills and then you get to put them into practice in a professional way by the senior year. Capstone Alright Caroline. Can you do a communication internship abroad and get class credit that leads me actually into my next slide on internships?
I have don't know if we've actually had a communication internship abroad. I know we are able to do internships in general. You can do up to 2 internships that are like 150 hours normally about 10 hours a week to get a place of a three credit course, so of those, 5 general CM3 and 400 electives that you have as part of your 13. Two of those, 5 could be internships. Anywhere fall summer or spring paid or unpaid. We have a lot of great opportunities for it.
And I suppose that if there was an internship abroad that would definitely that would be possible. I think would be more just looking at the logistics, but our internship class is basically it's an on line, where your internship is the class and you have a class where you just like maybe post every week about your experiences etc. So while I'm not sure if we've done an actual internship abroad. I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. But that's something we have to check on but I think there's the possibility that that could happen. We do have a?
Lot of people that do internships. While there here. These are just some of the places were very well connected in the Baltimore media market advertising and public relations. Philly DC up to New York City up and down the East Coast. We have a lot of people that do internships. That's where a lot of our population of students is from. But we also are very well connected and we like to really we communication Department. We actually have 2 dedicated professors who work with students are they run these internship classes.
In addition to the classes, they teach so the idea is we have on our communication Department website under student links. You can find an internship page, which kind of lists the intern ships as we get them or they come in around our area, or if you know, somebody in your hometown that says, well if you can get credit over the summer come work at my firm or come work at the TV station for an internship over the summer, so you can find the internships as well and then will help you find the ways to get the credit to make it work to take that internship and again, they can be over the summer.
Fall or spring and they can be paid or unpaid so we have a lot of different connections were very well connected here in Baltimore, specially but we also have many students that find internships at their hometowns, or over the summers or you know that are able to commute back and forth. So we are able to really say that in communication internships are a very important part of part of that, so we can add them, as classes but we also have a great area here to be able to find those internships, so again we've had people with ESPN and Clear Channel.
Christian
05:18:48 PM
Can internship companies align with your branch of communication
We actually have one student who's actually interning with the Today show in Washington, DC, and just got very excited 'cause. She got to spend several evenings working with all the NBC News anchors on the Today show anchors who really were actually letting her write stories and engage with things so she was really excited. But we have a lot of strong connections to media in and around the area that we often find that our students, like to do with internships so there's some classes there's internships. We also have several other unique.
Things about our program, which I'll get to in just a second. Let me see this next question can internship companies align with your branch of communication, yeah, basically.
Eve
05:19:25 PM
Can you only take internships in your senior year?
We have all kinds of people to do all kinds of internships in the communication field. Sometimes we have companies that seek us out and send us internships and we put them up on our websites. Other times, you know students that want to have a PR internship will go find a PR firm an talk to them about doing an internship. So basically you can find an internship on whatever branch via digital media public relations, etc so literally.
As long as it's a communication base it has something to do with communications marketing advertising promotion in the communications realm. You can find an internship to take on whatever that is, we have people that do video. We have people that do PR and advertising journalism really as long as it's communication. We can help you figure it out. Whatever field that it works with that.
Can you only take internships in your senior year? No, you are allowed to take internships once you are officially a sophomore, most people will start internships. Nowadays, they're doing in junior year and senior year.
We but we actually have had students that have gotten some internships this summer after their sophomore year so right before junior year. So you are allowed to start doing internships. Once you are a sophomore, and I would say many of our students.
Look up junior and senior doing internships that we have had students that are sophomores or in that summer before junior year that has got an internship so basically you can do as many as you want you can do up to 2 for credit and you can start once you are a sophomore. Again, I would say most of our students do at least 1 internship. Some students do 2 or 3. It just depends on you know how how eager you are to do them and where you want to look so but internships are a large part of what we do, and it's very important to us and we really work hard to help the students.
Finamore also engage with the ones that they know about and there really is how you figure out what you want to do in this field and we're very blessed to be in the area. We are where we are a media hub of things, so whether that's advertising digital media production journalism. You're going to find just about all of it and opportunities to do that. And there's a lot of other opportunities. We have that are unique to our program that I want to also mention to you. If anyone out there has any interest in book publishing we have the only student.
Run book publishing house in the country basically it's part of our it's classes that you take but you solicit manuscripts. An authors who submit to our apprentice house and then you go through the process of selecting an approving the manuscript choosing which ones editing them designing and creating the book covers and then marketing and selling the book. So basically you work in Apprentice House publishing a publishing company doing all of that. You're also getting class credit for it. We have a fantastic advisor Kevin at excuse.
Right here right there that's his picture, but it's fantastic and many of our students who find their very interested in book publishing or editing copy editing go right from our program. We have several that have gone to different New York publishers different things. So that's another element or a chance to really get involved in real world experience of actually working you can say you've worked for a publishing house are books are published everywhere from Amazon bookstores. We do book signings, but it's a really unique and interesting experience.
Especially if you're somebody that's very interested in book publishing and manuscripts, but also getting to work with and meet with a lot of really interesting authors. We have of course, our student newspaper, the Greyhound again. You can get involved in the Greyhound. You're from freshman year on its online. So it's a multimedia newspaper with video, they're working on all kinds of things are really trying to bring it into the current state of feeling more like social style videos, etc. But it's definitely.
A chance to do reporting on all kinds of different things at our school newspaper. That also covers a Baltimore area with everything if you are into radio and television. We have an award winning radio station WLY you can not only do DJ and radio programs. But they work with different programs in the community. They help their program where elementary school students come in and work with students to record audio plays. They do a lot of different types of community events, both here.
Pan around the school, but also it's something if you just want to go in and get some experience being a DJ you're able to come in right away again. Start your freshman year and start to create and work with things in radio podcasts, etc. Oddcast are becoming very, very big, but you can have all that experience with the radio station or if you prefer TV. You can do both, but we also have an award winning great column TV studio, which is a fully operational television studio. It is a student club so you do not have to be a communication student to be engaged in it.
But most of our communication majors are involved in it, we use it in our classes. I have a broadcast class where students create shows and then we produce them. But you get hands on experience with everything from behind the scenes to in front of the Camera. Even if you just want to come and say, I have this great idea for a sports talk show or a cooking show cooking shows are really popular apparently right now that will help you figure out how to produce it? How to create it whether you want to host it or be behind the scenes. They also work with the community to do different types of video projects.
As well, but it's a chance again, both with our radio and TV in our Greyhound. You can get hands on your freshman year. We don't make you wait till you had classes basically if you're interested and you want to learn how to do this just come show up and will teach you whether it's graphics or shooting video or working on production on a show. We will help you figure it out and help you figure out what you want to do, but again we want you to get involved in these things get hands-on start your freshman year so then you have time to build and grow whatever area.
Interesting would like so that's really all of our media elements again were communication. So we have the radio. the TV that newspaper, The Apprentice House, all things you can get involved in and we also have several different clubs, we have our advertising club where literally. They compete to create different national ad campaigns. It's another space to kind of think about what kinds of nowadays? What kinds of advertising is out there as it Instagram as you can see that social media, which you get a chance to outside of class work on campaigns.
Compete against people for national advertising campaigns and just get a sense of things as well as sort of beginning to do that work and you can get involved in that by your sophomore year. Then we have also an award winning public relations Student Society of America kind of the same type of thing they do a lot of work with the community. They created a lot of public relations campaigns. You can get involved in that they bring in speakers from the local community and around to talk about what the field is like and then do a lot of service projects and work, but it's something again. Students can get involved in from.
Day One and they really do a lot of interesting things, even including by the time you're getting into it. They do practice for job interviews. They do different things like that, and then we have our Lambda Planet Honor Society. This is an Honor Society at by your junior or senior year if you've done well in the believe it's a 3.6 or above. It's a service society. But it gives you sort of an Honor Society for doing well, they go out and do a lot of service in our Baltimore community.
If you can tell we're really big on engagement and service in our Department. Many of our classes again not just our capstones. But other classes. We have our service learning that really helped to make you a better aware of the community around you what the needs are and how to work with that and then by the time we get senior here, you actually have a chance in an Honor Society, said National Honor Society that you could go out and get back even more so those are kind of that's kind of the basics of the major put my contact information up for.
Carolyn
05:27:08 PM
How many grades count in a typical class; is it just the midterm and final, or do homework and other projects also count?
A minute here, then I might go back to the drone shot. But questions ask away. I am here to answer so Caroline? How many grades countable classified or do homework and other projects also count. It really depends in some of our I guess you could say some of the basic a lot of our communication classes are not just midterm and final is we have a lot of hands-on project work so like our media writing or multimedia storytelling. You'll write a web store in a news story, a different type of story. You'll probably have a final exam.
Natalie
05:28:10 PM
Do the Communications students run the Loyola social media accounts, or are involved in them in some way?
But you will also have a lot of hands-on projects as well. Most of our classes do not have just like some more. I would say your some of your more basic classes that you get in larger style classes don't just have like a mid term scantron. Anna final you are going to be engaged in products you're going to be turning out work. You're going to be doing design and creating stories and writing things so it's a mix of homework projects, etc as well as mixed around maybe a final project or a final exam.
But I would venture to say in most of our classes in communication. They're much more project based and so final exams in that are probably more project based more sometimes written were not like a scantron type in most cases, but that's also true because our classes are lab classes don't go up 17 'cause. We have them in computer lab, so we have a nice small class of 17 and our seminar discussion classes tend to be capped at 25. So you're always going to have a smaller class, which I think also lends itself to being able to do more projects.
And engagement In addition to the typical midterms and finals, etc. So it's different for a lot, but usually you have more than just a mid term in a final.
Eve
05:29:21 PM
Will there be opportunities to seek help from teachers outside of the classroom?
Natalie do communicate that sorry the communication students run the Loyola social media accounts are involved in them in some way yes. We actually have work study students. Those are work study jobs. You can get through the University and we have 3 or 4 of them depending on our needs each year and they actually are the ones that work with running our social media. We're sort of in the middle of a revamping of it right now, we've just sort of updated graphic designs and we're working to get it back up and running. But yes our students were starting some new ways to try to get them to submit video to engage with it.
To be able to post to it, but we want it to be very much student engaged and student. You know, students being submitting to it, and running it, etc with some of our work study students actually being sort of the editors of the monitors. But, except in content. We want to get people engaged and we're hoping to build that up even more. We've kind of had some interesting technical issues that we finally resolved. So we are actually starting to post more starting to engage more and really get students to actually post.
Can engage and we hope? To even build that up more so in the next couple of months into it. You know as we continue on.
He will there be opportunities to seek help from teachers outside of the classroom. Most definitely and I say this 'cause I can speak for all of my.
25 plus faculty members, we very, very much encourage students to come an engage with us outside of the classroom. Whether it's if you want help you're not sure about something in a class you want. Some extra maybe coaching. I always say that a lot of times I end up is the job advice counselor students want to come and talk about what the careers look like? What types, especially as they get towards internships and senior years what the field looks like questions or concerns. They might have about that. But In addition, all of us have office hours at many of us are worth more than that.
Usually if you want to meet with us you can just schedule time and we'll work it into our schedules. But you definitely can seek help. We encourage that one of the things we really pride ourselves on it oil in general is that the relationships that we form as mentors and professors with our students. It's something I enjoy personally is one of my favorite parts of this job is getting to engage with and help students and get to know them better not just in the classroom, but also as we figure out where do you want to go? What do you want to do and then? How can I help you with it, I have a lot of.
Connections most all of our faculty in the communication Department have worked in professional careers. Many of us have the connections. We have a lot of alumni. People who work with that. We are more than happy to connect students with to help them figure out when they're looking for places to intern or jobs at that time were more than happy to engage with you so. So yes, there is a lot of opportunities if you take them. If you want them to engage with teachers outside in the classroom.
And just have a sense of whatever that need might be, but also our faculty is because there's so many projects and things that we do a lot of drafts. Without you submit a draft and then we critique it and then continue with the next version of it. Hopefully improves as you go, but a lot of that means you know, not just in class time. But if you want to come. See us or visit us to get critique in the office during you know our office hours or other points in time. We're happy to do that. Again, I've been here 9 years now and I really.
I think that the people on the professors that we work with here really have a deep sense of care and concern for our students on all levels and we just want to do everything we can to make sure you're having a good classroom experience, I could lay Ola experience, but also how can we help you achieve those goals where the job you want to go to where the Graduate School or just where you want to go on in that next step. It's something that keeps me here and it's something that I think will it does very, very well, especially in our communication Department?
We are one of the larger majors on we have anywhere from 350 to about 425 majors and minors. So we're very popular. But we also we have our students that get jobs. They we have a lot of alumni that are very, very well connected they love to come back and support and help but many of them will always say that it was the experiences they got in this program being here in Baltimore being at Loyola being apart of this Department that they're willing to.
Come back and help others in fact, I just had the video production manager of the Ravens is a loyal to graduate and he just contacted me to say he'd really like to find more ways to get our students engaged in video production and things so we're already talking about well. Maybe well, I'm a teabag stadiums control room is open since we're not in season may be taking some students over there and they will put everything together and show you what it's like to do with sports game or to work in a control room on that side of things.
Eve
05:34:25 PM
You said that there will be classes that teaches us how to write and communicate properly will that be a different aspect english classes?
So that's just one example. We have a lot of alumni that are willing to work with our current students to do these types of things we have. We do in marketing and ad and PR firm tour around. Baltimore usually once a year. We take students to actually spend today meeting with different Adam PR firms getting to know them and what they do. We do the same thing with media outlets we go today? Show usually once a year. All those types of things so we give you a lot of opportunities to connect and we also going back to somebody Australia kind of some interesting study abroad.
Um ideas, we actually have a class. We just have been doing for 2 years where we go abroad. We went to London and Newcastle last year in London and Paris this year for 10 days right before spring semester starts and students. Just take video and pictures and interview people and just spend 10 days, immersing and gathering. All this material and then they come back and then take a class in the spring semester that allows them to learn how to put that together in blogs and videos and different types of web creation, so it's another way too.
Perhaps getting abroad experience if you don't want to go for a full semester or you just want to have another experience so these types of opportunities that were pioneering here in communication and seem to be going over really well in students really seem to be enjoying that so we're hoping to continue that thinking. Maybe Spain next year. In addition to the regular study abroad, but that's another program. I wanted to make sure I mentioned so if you said there will be classes that teach us how to write and communicate properly will that be a different aspect.
English classes we basically in communication. It is writing and it is communicating so the style not to give a whole lecture here on line. But communication writing is very tends to be brief. It tends to be descriptive, but informative factual give you the basic information about someone or something or a story. So we're going to teach you in communication? How to write in that style. So it's a little different than like an English or a writing class where you're going to be focusing a little bit more.
Cam
05:36:13 PM
Do students transfer out of commutations into other majors?
Maybe on style and pros and nonfiction and fiction. But they crossover a lot. We actually also have what we call an interdisciplinary major where you can take 8 communication courses and 8 courses in a specific other field. We do it with writing. We do it with with biology, but you can sort of split those you know like 16 courses 8 and 8 are writing and communication in our English courses really tend to work well together to give you a good sense of all those different types.
And styles of writing so it is different than the English classes. You'll take it's different than a writing classes. You'll take in simply that writing for communication is a little different. It's kind of it's own style. The principles are the same. But it's a little bit of a different style. So you take a mix of all the classes and across the spectrum and that's what people want to communicate you have to know how to write and that's what you're going to learn throughout all of the courses here, but especially in the communication style. Cameron do students transfer out of communications in other majors. Yes, we have sometimes students that come in and they find that? Maybe.
Marketing is more to their liking or something else usually you declare your major we don't let you declare it in your freshman year, you can come in as an idea like if you think you want to be communication or Poly Sci. You can come in and start to take the classes but you don't declare your major until fall of sophomore year 'cause. We want you to have that first year to take different classes in different areas, including what you might be interested in majoring in and then if you decide maybe communication isn't for me. You can go and still be able to declare a major of your choice.
If you decide communication is you can declare that with a specialization. Most people will stay in the major there in but we do have students that by the end of sophomore year into junior year. Even we don't recommend passed junior year but they do transition. I always tell everybody that communication is a great major or a minor. You gotta know how to communicate in any job. You're going to happen no matter where that is so even if you're a marketing major with the communication minor which is very popular.
We have communication majors and marketing minors. We have a lot of Humanities minors. English history political science with communication or vice versa. So I always tell people it's a It's a pretty versitile major because it can be applied to anything but it also in your first couple of years. That's part of what we want you to do here at loyal is figure out where you fit in and there is some some room to figure that out, usually you want to do it before the start of your junior year. 'cause a lot of people are going abroad.
It's a different type of thing you know, depending on what you're interested in and then communication itself. You can change specializations. We have some people that come in thinking they wanted to digital media. But then they take an advertising and public relations class and they decide Oh. Maybe I want to specialize in that it is easy as filling out a piece of paper to switch specializations in communication because all the skills overlap and work together and if you decide you want to move into after several classes and just communication isn't for you, you know.
The skills you get will take with you into whatever that other major you go because again, you have to know how to communicate no matter what that is, but we usually find most people once they are in communication unless something just hits them that they suddenly find. They have which happens and that's what you gotta do you gotta follow your passion? But a lot of our majors tend to stay because they find some niche in there whether it's journalism a digital media or advertising or graphic design different things like that that we allow you sort of what we pride ourselves on at least I think it's something unique.
As we allow you to go as deep into these specializations as you'd like but we also allow you to explore different areas. We do some studio art crossover classes. If you like more of the design photography, etc. So we want you to kind of explore and figure out what you want to do what makes you feel creative? What makes you feel fulfilled and the nice thing about communication is there so.
So many different avenues, you can take with that as a major as a minor. If you take some classes and then move into something else. It's never going to be a bad thing to have some communication classes.
And I firmly believe that having worked in this business for about 8 or 9 years before I went into teaching it and still being connected to it on the broadcast the add the media side production side, etc. The skills you're going to get our lifelong skills and we're going to make sure you have not only those hands on skills. But the important thing is how to think about media and consume it in interesting ways because your generation is going to be consuming media in completely different ways.
Then I'm I'm still sad that TV is not you know the TV newscast is not what everybody watch is and it was in the heyday of when I used to. When I was in the field. But it's social media. So our students are trying to figure out how do you communicate through social media? What is an Instagram newscast look like or what does some kind of Design project on Snapchat look like 'cause That's the way of the future and the good thing about communication is we're going to find a way to actually help you figure out where that is.
And how you want to do that, and then what ways you can do that with different things.
So I'm hoping I'm answering some of these questions on satisfactory. Waze feel free if you have more. I'm happy to take them. There's no stupid questions. I will attempt to answer anything I can on any topic. I can also talk about legal in general, if there's something on a more broad scale. You're curious about or I can go more in depth into different areas of communication if there's anything of interest.
I have some interesting you know as I'm as I'm waiting for questions some things. Some somebody talked about internships. Earlier, the different types. I'd mention of internships that our students do we actually have had several that are working at Disney right? Now they are down working in different areas of marketing and promotion or design down in Florida. We have students that are working in video production and Chicago in Los Angeles. Digital media in production. We have students that are interning at all. The major news networks again, one and NBC we have several graduates that are.
Pretty high, up in the Good Morning America morning show that are always reaching out to our students. So we have a lot of things that are going on and the students are doing this while taking classes. So it's something that you know, yes, it can be my one student who's not sleeping because she's running around between classes and going to DC 3 days a week for this internship, but she loves it and she's making connections. It's something that I think is a very, very important part of not only in college experience, but especially a communication experience.
Cam
05:43:02 PM
How do students balance their academics and social life to have the best Loyola experience?
Is figuring out what you want to do in this field internships are a fantastic way to do that? We encourage them, but also getting a chance to explore a different areas, to find out what interests you and what makes you curious about communication.
Hammerhead how do students balance their academics and social life to have the best little experience it's a really good question.
Going by what I hear from my students and when I talk with him.
It really is sort of a question of making sure is always tell people when I advise them think about the types of classes. You're taking in a semester. If you're somebody like me, I'm honored in English and history. So I love reading and research, so I take 525 classes a semester. An I would take you know, Shakespeare's tragedies and the history of Tutor, England. Intense a lot of reading and writing courses. In addition to having a full time job running the campus radio or TV station so I was constantly almost overloaded.
But for some people and that works, but a lot of times will say think about if you're taking a heavy reading class may be taken more skills based one, maybe take a class that is a little bit lighter for you, that or something that's interesting and balance that out in the semester. You have an internship. You work closely with you get an advisor in your in your major who works with you to help you figure out what classes to take you have to meet with them every semester before you register to make sure you're on track to get their advice on different things and a lot of that is where we have, I find that students ask? What kinds of classes should I take?
Eve
05:44:35 PM
What are some of the jobs that some graduates have in the communications field?
Is this going to be too much to try to do all of these things together so it's something that we work with you, but we also I always tell students that you know you've got to find that balance. But you also gotta have some relaxation my joke was always on the huge popular culture fan. I teach a lot about it. So my escape is I have to give myself at least 2 hours sometime during the week to just watch whatever show. I'm watching or just sit down and read something 'cause That's sort of my way of bouncing it or going out and having dinner with somebody so there's a lot of ways to do that.
And I think there's a lot of good help for you to do that plus our students in general. I think they found ways at least from what I've seen to find a way to balance things and they also work well with each other. People are always helping on each other offering advice or thoughts or rides to different places. So I think the idea is to just take advantage of everything you can, but also know yourself and just take advantage of the services that people on the things that will it provides from advising too.
On campus and off campus activities to really kind of balance out what works best for the type of person. You are, and that's also going to help you get involved, and find that loyal experience, whatever that might because it's different for different people Eve. What are some of the jobs some graduates have in the communication field good question. They're all over the place I have. Let's see we have at least 4 or 5 graduates in the past 9 years. I've been here that are working in major sports organizations. Somebody is up with the.
Billy is we have people at the Ravens Uhm. I believe we have somebody with the Orioles.
And the Nationals so there's a lot of people that want to get involved in marketing and promotion or sports in the sports fields. We have people in various media outlets like I mentioned we have people working as producers anchors bookers promotional consultants for Good Morning America. CBS productions inside addition. We have several graduates who have worked for all the late night shows somebody at one of the Phil Read Francesco, who is now working his way through all the late night rating.
You know, Fallon Colbert and Stewart etc. When he was on air. So we have people that are engaged in the production in the writing field of big companies. We have a lot of students that work for advertising and public relations firms. Many in New York, one if I had dinner with one of my former students over this probably over last summer, who's actually working as a case manager for Ogilvie, one of the big pharmaceutical companies.
And she's in charge of half of their I think it's their shampoo division, but creating different things like that, so they're working at firms. We have people that are working in is in production companies. Disney animation think we have several graduates who are actually working at Pixar and some of the animation areas. We have people working in social media. That's one of the fastest growing jobs social media creation social media content management. Many companies need this and they don't know how to do it, so they want to hire.
Um are out, coming graduates who know how to use Instagram to sell a product social media influencers. Still, a little little skeptical of that. But I'm learning more as my students are introducing me to it, but we have several that are planning on they've created brands in a marketing themselves and are getting ads and getting sponsorships. So I'm expecting to see them kind of making their way into that, really there. It's it's the spectrum. We have pretty much is what I like to say is if you're?
Interested in some kind of field. We probably have an alumni or somebody. That's working in it, and we work very hard, especially around my Department to keep in touch a connect you with that. I also have a lot of connections throughout the different fields that I'm happy to put people in touch with if you want to know what the job of a PA for Gordon Ramsey Show, one of my colleagues who's been doing that for 20 years. So I always have her talk to students about what it's like if you're interested in the production field and students go on to do that as well. There's a lot of freelance jobs freelance is very big because a lot of companies will hire you as a freelancer.
To get started and that's how you get in the door. So we have video freelancers on a lot of people that work. Just creating videos. There hired project by project. Many of them like it because it allows them to actually work on their own time frames and schedules. Yet still have the different responsibilities that they need but also allows them to do different things. So it really is. The Sky's the limit the nice thing about communication? Is it's so broad and you can move among the careers. We have people that come out with advertising and public.
Christian
05:49:25 PM
What are some political jobs tied into communications to go with the question you are describing above ^
Relation specializations and end up in journalism or digital media. We have people that work in video production and end up in advertising and marketing. So it's really sort of you create the field and new jobs and ideas are always being created but you're going to have the skills to do that as a communication major. What are some political jobs tide to communications to go with the questions you're describing we actually have we have a really strong political science Department and actually we have a lot of communication and.
Holy sign majors and minors.
One of my students from 2 to 3 years ago, I think is now working on the Hill forgive me. I can't remember which senator but as an aid to one of the senators so we have people that go down to Capitol Hill and engage with that. We have people that are in press offices. Both local and national being so close to DC. We have a lot of students that end up starting with internships and then get hired working for different campaigns or a different nonprofits or political organizations.
The nice thing is where we are, we have very close proximity to that, so we do have you know a lot of people that speechwriters for politicians?
Campaign managers and event promoters, where we have somebody I want to say somebody worked.
Oh, I can't remember but actually created an organized a bunch of like it was local for maybe.
One of our local representatives campaigns and all kinds of major fundraisers and things like that. So it really again. It's sort of a variety of what are you interested in and what kinds of opportunities? Are you willing to look for being Baltimore. the DC that area we really do tie in well to communication and different forms of that in the political atmosphere and again. We have a lot of students that makes the communication in political Sciences. Major miners because a lot of that is speech writing and communication and knowing how to understand.
Politics we actually have some now I think about it that have gone into social media management. For politicians 'cause you know unless they're younger many of them a lot of times would rather have somebody else run their social media 'cause they don't know what Instagram or Snapchat is or they're not as comfortable with it as somebody that might just have graduated and spent most of their their life as well as their classes working with social media. So it really is kind of what the opportunities are out there will help you find them or you find them but?
With communications you're going to be able to find every karere. No matter what it is need somebody to communicate they need people to help them communicate whether it's through writing or video production or advertising or promotions, so having a communications background really opens you up to working in just about any field. You want because everybody needs communications. Everybody needs some kind of marketing. Everybody needs some kind of promotion and publicity and that's not going to change. I think that's the one thing I can say with certainty about the communication.
Field is regardless of what it looks like it could be through mobile it could be through this. It could be through a computer screen. People need to know how to communicate the basic skills of communicating messages. Communicating ideas and thoughts and that's always going to be jobs for that and there's a communication background mixed in with any one of the other wonderful majors or minors that really offers. It just gives you all the tools that.
I think you need and you want to actually go out and you know as a layover would say be the best person. You can be an really be the kind of a person who makes change and create change or as we like to say you would be loyal ready for anything that's going to come your way and again after 9 years here. I have seen our students go on to do so many interesting things and incredible things that they say. I'm so happy that we did this, or this is where I'm supposed to be.
Uhm the other beauty about the communication to me is, you can have several different jobs. Working our way through these this field to find out where you fit when I was doing it. I had to sign 3 year contracts at a TV station. This was years ago and I couldn't get out of them even if I decided another opportunity came along now it is in the communication field. Its yearly you're working at something for a year and then you're deciding maybe I like this. Maybe I want to do a different aspect and then you move on to do that as well. You can move through different areas of communication.
To really sort of find where you fit and that's a good thing is there's a lot of elements of it in this field and part of what you're going to explore and experience in the four years here at low if you come here or really wherever you go are going to be figuring out where do you fit? What do you want to do an I think it would be less communication specifically you find that we expose you to so many different types of opportunities jobs, creative things internships that you know, most people figure out here is kind of where.
I feel like I'm comfortable here's what I want to do so. That's pretty much communications in a nutshell. If you can't tell it something. I love and I'm passionate about after working in it at now teaching in it for the past 10 years. I still tend to go out over the summers and try to get caught up on what's going on in the media and do different things that I then bring into classrooms and do that, but it's something I love and I made a career out of it and now I love teaching it and I find that will I really.
Shanelle Grier
05:55:21 PM
Hi everyone! This is Shanelle from the Undergrad Admission Office! Thank you for joining us for this chat and for all of these great questions for Dr. Magee. If you had a question that was not answered here I'll be sure to follow up with you after this event!
Like how does University thinks about the idea of the whole person and that Cura Personalis as we call it and communication? We really try to help you figure that out, as well as you'll find in all of the little core classes in minors as well as major so.
OK, so I guess we're coming towards the end. I want to thank you guys.
Natalie
05:55:59 PM
Thank you! This was very informative!
Christian
05:56:07 PM
loved you and accepted students day
I have contact information right there on the screen. You can also find me on the website. So if there is any other questions if you might like we often like to have it students want to come in and sit in on the class or you find it professor you might be interested in talking to more about their class or their subject matter. We're happy to do that. All you have to do is reach out the number there and connect an we also tend to you know, we can do tours. We can I can do 1 on one meetings, etc. All you have to do is reach out and ask I'm happy to do it and you can email me as well.
Any questions about anything I am very.
Cam
05:56:23 PM
Thank you!!
Very very happy to help out in any way I can so I wish you all luck and I wish you all the best and I would love to see you here at Loyola but please don't hesitate to reach out if there's anything I can do to help communication or otherwise an again thank you all for your interest and for considering Loyola and I really do think that you know it's a fantastic choice in communication is a fantastic nature as well.