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Communications Department
| Student film, A Walk In My Shoes, elected for the 2012 Nashville Film Festival |
| Students win 4 SPJ awards, 1 SEJC and 1 NBS award for news/sports reporting |
| Forensics team wins over 300 awards so far this year |
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 four areas of concentration:
- Mass Communication (3 tracks in: News, Production, Integrated Marketing Communication)
- Theatre (2 tracks in: Performance and Production)
- Speech Communication (2 tracks in: Cultural Communication, Health Communication)
MASS COMMUNICATIONS: Use this APP, All Platform Production
At TSU we stress a hands-on approach to learning in a multi-media environment. Your APP is the ALL Platform Production Center which 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.
SPEECH COMMUNICATION: Preparing you for a variety of careers
Speech Communication 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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"The Blacks" by TSU Theatre (excerpt from the production)
"Zooman and the Sign" (behind the scenes 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)
Noteworthy recent accomplishments
- Mass Comm students win four National Broadcasting Society awards, six Society of Professional Journalist awards, are finalists for six TN Associated Press awards.
- WTST places 2nd Place, Best Radio Station, Southeast Journalism Conference.
- COMM is awarded $1.5 million grant as it partners with Music and Art to begin new integrated Art, Media, Music grant to research and launch a new concentration.
- Dr. Tameka Winston will serve 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. Likes has been approved for candidacy on the Fulbright Specialists Roster. "The Roster is a list of all approved candidates who may be matched with an overseas university for two to six weeks."
- Nearly 900 attend TSU's Music and Communication Departments spring musical, THE FANTASTICKS during four special performances.
- Department opens its new APP Center, ALL Platfom Production. This facility houses the new WTST, production/edit rooms, faculty & studnet offices, a classroom, multimedia newsroom and more.
- APP center also includes PAC House Productions, the student IMC agency and the BluePrint (magazine).
- The student film, A Walk In My Shoes, has been selected for the 2012 Nashville Film Festival.
- Forensics sets record for most awards in a season, 352 this year year and 2,287 in the last 15 years.
- Dr. Likes, Department Head/Professor, has produced three audio documentaries that aired in the last year year on the TN Radio Network.
- Dr. Likes won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, one Broadcast Education Association award.
- Dr. Likes nominated for three TN Associated Press awards. Likes also conducted three presentations at the 2012 Broadcast Education Association conference.
- Dr. Qi Tang has two National Communication Association conference presentations this year.
- Three students selected to shoot political interviews for PBS Newshour website.
- Prof. Tommy Booras is completing his third year as chair of BEA's Sports Division Festival of the Arts Student Sports Competition.
- Dr. Coreen Jackson, an Associate Professor, currently serves as the Multicultural Research Division Chairperson of the Broadcast Educators Association (BEA).