Communication Department Celebrates Student Success at COMMference
Communication students will be showcasing their work from the past year at the COMMference at 6 p.m. April 21 in the Student Union Building Alumni Room.
The communication event will feature an extended alumni panel to talk about jobs and graduate school in addition to a group of current students who will review their communication projects. These works range from a presentation on Internet regulations, the 2012 political campaigns and photography captured during the 2012 Iowa caucuses.
Event organizers, communication seniors Sara Kluba and Carrie Nelson, said the event’s focus enables students new to the discipline to see what senior students have accomplished in upper-level courses as well as getting to interact with former communication students who are now working in their interested fields.
“We want to show others what they can learn too and how it can be applied in the future,” Kluba said.
This year’s alumni panel is comprised of five speakers who represent the variety of occupations open to communication majors and minors, including a public relations account executive, a magazine editor, a television director, a communications coordinator and a broadcast news producer.
Representatives from the department’s co-curricular student media will be available to talk about on-campus opportunities. Other department-related groups, who are co-sponsors of the event, will also be on hand to talk about their activities.
The event was first launched in spring 2011 by seniors Kelly Fox and Amanda Goeser.
More information about the COMMference can be accessed at thecommference.blogspot.com.
The communication event will feature an extended alumni panel to talk about jobs and graduate school in addition to a group of current students who will review their communication projects. These works range from a presentation on Internet regulations, the 2012 political campaigns and photography captured during the 2012 Iowa caucuses.
Event organizers, communication seniors Sara Kluba and Carrie Nelson, said the event’s focus enables students new to the discipline to see what senior students have accomplished in upper-level courses as well as getting to interact with former communication students who are now working in their interested fields.
“We want to show others what they can learn too and how it can be applied in the future,” Kluba said.
This year’s alumni panel is comprised of five speakers who represent the variety of occupations open to communication majors and minors, including a public relations account executive, a magazine editor, a television director, a communications coordinator and a broadcast news producer.
Representatives from the department’s co-curricular student media will be available to talk about on-campus opportunities. Other department-related groups, who are co-sponsors of the event, will also be on hand to talk about their activities.
The event was first launched in spring 2011 by seniors Kelly Fox and Amanda Goeser.
More information about the COMMference can be accessed at thecommference.blogspot.com.
