Growing up, Professor Travis Bartosh was a shy kid. It wasn’t until his first semester in college when his Communication Studies teacher, who eventually became his mentor, told him something transformational: “communication is a skill.” This made Professor Bartosh think of communication in a whole new way. As a child or teenager, striking up
Alexia Lyons graduated in 2015 with a BA in Strategic and Corporate Communications . She now lives in Mar Vista, California, working for advertising agencies, specifically in Internet marketing. We asked her about her job and how her major prepared her. Tell us about your job. As a whole, I am responsible
On Wednesday, March 30th, the Department of Communication Studies brought in Ralph Schroeder to discuss Big Data Communication. Schroeder is the Director of the Master’s degree program in Social Science and the Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute in the United Kingdom. He is also the author and/or co-author behind a long list
What is an elevator pitch? Well, if by happenstance, you find yourself stuck in an elevator with the CEO of your dream company you have between 30 and 60 seconds to win him/her over. This small window of time where you convince the CEO that he needs you in his company is called an elevator
College students have often been warned of the inaccuracies and evils that lie in Wikipedia pages; it is looked upon as sophomoric to use such a website as an academic source. Despite the plea of professors, we (college students or not) still find ourselves typing the website into our URL to find out the name
The Orange County Press Club board has selected journalism professor and English internship manager Dennis Foley to receive its highest honor, the Sky Dunlap Award. The award recognizes significant service to Orange County journalism, the Press Club and the community. Foley worked 26 years for the Orange County Register as an assigning editor, the newspaper’s ombudsman,
This spring, the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing in the Department of Englis h has hosted a collection of truly thought provoking, educational and distinguished creative artists from South America. On Monday, April 4th, Andre Klotzel , Brazilian producer, screenwriter, and film director, spoke about his experience working in cinema in his home country
The Musco Chair in Italian Studies presents , Spaghetti & Meatballs – The invention of Italian-American Cuisine on Thursday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Argyros Forum, Room 209A with Zachary Nowak from Harvard University. Does food provide a barometer to assess the integration of Italian-American immigrants to the United States? This talk focuses
The Earl Babbie Research Center presents, An Evening with author Travis Walton , on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 6 p.m. in Irvine Lecture Hall. Travis Walton is the author of “Fire in the Sky” — a documented case of alien abduction which inspired the film, “Fire in the Sky.” Walton will recount his
Elizabeth Wong, a freshman business major in Tammy Lechner’s ENG 103 Writing About People class, has won the “Discover Asia Correspondent Contest.” The contest, co-sponsored by Korean Airlines and the Los Angeles Times, invited high school and college students to choose any destination in Asia serviced by Korean Airlines, and write an essay explaining their