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Communications Department
| Mass Comm students win 15 state, regional and national honors in four competitions. |
| TSU's Theatre program produced "Seven Guitars" as its main stage spring production. |
| TSU approves name change of Speech Communication to Communication Studies. |
Hands-On Learning: From theatrical set construction, working on an advertising campaign, participating in a 48 hour film challenge, covering a news story to developing an effective corporate presentation.
Thank you for your interest in Tennessee State University and its Department of Communications. We offer three areas of concentration:
- Mass Communication (4 tracks in: News, Production, Integrated Marketing Communications and Media Studies)
- Theatre (2 tracks in: Performance and Production)
- Communication Studies (2 tracks in: Cultural Communication, Health Communication)
MASS COMMUNICATIONS: C-MAP The Center for Media Arts and Production: All Platform Production
At TSU we stress a hands-on approach to learning in a multi-media environment. C-MAP includes: The TSU News Network, WTST, TSU TV, Tenn State IMC Agency, PAC House Productions, the BluePrint (online magazine), and the Meter (newspaper, housed under Student Affairs). Our faculty bring a blend of scholarly activity and creative professional work to the classroom. Students also learn each other through their work in extra-curricular and co-curricular activities that complement formal instruction.
TSU TV News, Sports and Entertainment programs are produced by students in a state-of-the-art studio with two studio sets and a multi-row control room. Video news and production now features 18 Avid or 16 Final Cut Pro video edit work stations. WTST, Tennessee State University Campus Radio, is our student-run radio station and is open to all students. The station is now in brand new facilities. Students have won hundreds of awards in recent years. The program now features an annual student 48 hour film challenge. In new media, the TSU News Network is a new entity involving the multiplatform distribution of student media.
THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS
The theatre faculty and students produce two major productions per year. Theatre was selected for national recognition for 2 productions over the past 3 years, Ruined and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The theatre program is rich in its history and uses the beautiful Cox-Lewis Theater as its centerpiece.
COMMUNICATION STUDIES: Preparing you for a variety of careers
Communication Studies promotes the responsible use of communication as a tool in a variety of situations: interpersonal, small group, intercultural, and corporate settings. Students gain an understanding of how communication serves as the organizing feature of relationships: interpersonal, work, societal and more.
At the TSU Department of Communications, we're small enough to know you, big enough to challenge you and diverse enough to stretch you. We've been in the communications education business for many years, not only adapting to, but leading the changes in our remarkable field. We look forward to meeting you and hope you will join us in your journey.
CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION!
Department of Communications
Tennessee State University
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd., Nashville, TN 37209
(615) 963-5804
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Videos about the Department
Advantages of coming to TSU (Mass Comm)
Theater
Set preparations for Seven Guitars
"Zooman and the Sign" (by TSU Summer Theatre)
Student produced videos...
Passing Time (Winner of the TSU 48 hour film challenge)
"A Walk in My Shoes" trailer (a senior project)
Alumni Testimonials
Yolonda Beech: On-Air Personality/Producer WQQK
Aerial Ellis: Professor Lipscomb University
Owner/Strategist Urbane Imagery
Patrice Starnes: Casting Assoc. Producer/Assoc. Producer
Studion Lambert Productions
Getahn Ward: Business Writer, The Tennessean
Noteworthy recent accomplishments
- Mass Comm students win four National Broadcasting Society awards, six Society of Professional Journalist awards, and six TN Associated Press awards.
- WTST places 2nd Place, Best Radio Station, Southeast Journalism Conference.
- Dr. Terry Likes traveled to the Poynter Institute to research new curricular ideas as part of the iAMM grant to launch a new cross-disciplinary concentration between Art, Media and Music.
- Dr. Tameka Winston serves as the Executive Producer for a new program on the HBCU Radio Network. TSU will produce, public affairs programs to air on SiriusXM distributed by Howard University.
- Dr. Terry Likes was accepted for a 2013 NATPE fellowship to attend the annual meeting of television program executives.
- Dr. Don Page, Dr. Ray Harrison, Dr. Kim Johnson and Dr. Qi Tang all attended the National Communication Association annual conference.
- Department houses the new Center Media Arts and Production (C-MAP). This facility houses the new WTST, production/edit rooms. faculty & student offices, a classroom, multimedia newsroom and more.
- C-MAP also includes PAC House Productions, the student IMC agency and the BluePrint(magazine).
- Dr. Terry Likes, Department Head/Professor, has produced three audio documentaries that aired in the last year on the TN Radio Network. His programs have won several BEA, Murrow and AP awards.
- Student forensicators win 101 awards in 2012-2013.
- The student film, A Walk In My Shoes, has been selected for the 2012 Nashville Film Festival.
- Dr. Ray Harrison has had two papers accepted for presentation at the Southern States Communication Association annual conference.
- Students win three 1st place, three honorable mention awards in the college competition from the TN Associated Press.
- Dr. Qi Tang has two National Communication Association conference presentations this year.
- Dr. Kim Johnson presented at NCA National Communication Association (in November) -- African American Communication and Culture "Top Paper" Panel. She also presented at a regional conference: "13th Biennial Public Address Conference (in September) at the University of Memphis.
- Dr. Coreen Jackson, an Associate Professor, currently serves as the Multicultural Research Division Chairperson of the Broadcast Educators Association (BEA).
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Prof. Tommy Booras is serving his forth year as chair of BEA's Sports Division Festival of the Arts Student Sports Competition.
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Dr. Tameka Winston will travel to the Poynter Institute to take part in "Teachapalooza."
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