Focuses on the principles and techniques of gathering information and writing news stories through a simulation where students report for a fictional town called Valleydale.

Emphasizes the integration of text, audio and video elements in digital storytelling. Covers topics like multimedia production, website design, social media strategies, and digital ethics.

Throughout the course we wrote as a PR associate for Solvent Blue, a fictitious, pro-environmental consulting firm with multiple branches. Solvent Blue not only provides businesses with improved everyday practices to implement, but their extension, the Guardian Project, focuses on landowners, proving that the average person can make a difference in our increasingly climate-conscious world. Additionally, ReRoot, an employee satisfaction program, provides Solvent Blue’s client’s employees with fully funded, hands-on opportunities to advance climate science, including additional paid leave and travel expenses.

Covers the history and evolution of PR, ethical considerations, PR theory, and the roll of PR in various business sectors.

Explores the complex relationship between sports, media, and power structures in society through framing, theory, social constructs, and other ideologies.

Dives into the various legal principles and regulations that govern various forms of communication such as the First Amendment, libel and slander, privacy law, copyright law, obscenity and indecency.

A deeper dive into the "why" and "how" of communication, this course provides the theoretical framework for understanding communication by exploring different communication theories and learning how to conduct research to study communication phenomena.

Addresses the moral and ethical dilemmas faced by media professionals through real case studies and applications.

Typically known as “AdClass,” this practical, hands-on course immerses students into the world of advertising and marketing communications. Students in this class are given a real life client for whom they create a plans book and running ad campaign for and present to a panel.

*I returned as an AdClass advisor for the Media & Communication Strategy team!