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Although there is not a program for secondary teaching licensure housed in the Communication Arts Department, the Integrated Language Arts program requires the following courses from this department: COMM 110, 230; JOUR 220; SPCH 220, 340; THEA 220. This program is available in the Language and Literature Department and leads to teaching licensure which includes communication and speech.
The American Studies Program is a semester-long internship/seminar program for upper-level students in most majors. Located in Washington, D.C., the program offers a non-traditional, interdisciplinary, issue-oriented learning experience.
This program is located in Washington, D.C. and is offered during four weeks from mid-May to mid-June. It features seminars with over 25 top professional journalists from secular and sectarian press. Students can earn four credit hours.
The Los Angeles Film Studies Center, located in Hollywood, is a semester-long internship/seminar program for upper level students who are interested in an introduction to the work and workings of the mainstream Hollywood film industry.
For a week in mid-July of each summer, students can join a tour to the Stratford and Shaw Festivals in Ontario, Canada. Eight to ten plays from a variety of genres (e.g., tragedies, comedies, musicals, mysteries) and by a variety of playwrights are seen each summer, as varied as Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, and Oscar and Hammerstein. Students can earn 3 upper level English credits that can be counted as general education credits and/or credit toward the English major or earn Communication Arts credit. Most of the class takes place during the week-long trip with some assignments to be done before and after. Students can learn how a written text (the play) is transformed and interpreted on stage and how to “read” a live performance of theatre and critique its success. The trip can also be taken for no credit. For more information, contact either the Office of the Department of Communication Arts or the Office of the Department of Language and Literature.
Although not directly related to the Communications Arts focus, other programs deserve consideration by our students: China Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle East Studies, Russian Studies, Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya, and Oxford Honours Programmes.
Students may earn credit for participation in several campus-based activities including the university student newspaper, The AVISO; the campus radio station, AM 1610; a Malone University theater department production; the campus literary magazine, The Catacombs; the yearbook, The Philos; a public relations campaign or project; or a communication studies project. Credit can be earned as early as the freshman year.
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