USC Annenberg welcomes new undergraduate and graduate students for the Fall 2005 semester. Classes begin Monday, August 22 . In addition to nearly 200 new undergraduate communication, journalism, and public relations students, USC Annenberg is enrolling 19 new Ph.D students and nearly 200 students beginning coursework for master's degrees in communication management , global communication ,...
Print journalism graduate student Daniel Konecky has been awarded a $5,000 Bayliss Radio Scholarship for the 2005-06 academic year. Conferred by The John Bayliss Broadcast Foundation, these awards recognize students for their "academic achievement and extracurricular radio activities, their passion for radio and their desire to contribute to the overall advancement of the radio industry." This...
USC Annenberg associate dean Martin Kaplan and the Los Angeles Times have called for greater community involvement in the design of the park planned for Grand Avenue in downtown LA. In an op-ed published in the July 17 Sunday LA Times, Norman Lear Center director Kaplan wrote, "You commuters and loft-dwellers, you pedestrians and picnickers, you Westsiders and Valleyites, you school groups and...
Documentary film producer Phillip Rodriguez has been named a Senior Fellow of USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism . Rodriguez will collaborate with other IJJ fellows on films and other projects exploring criminal justice, issues of race and ethnicity, post-9/11 security and liberty, the U.S.-Mexican border and immigration. Rodriguez is founder of City Projects Productions . He describes his most recent documentary, Los Angeles Now , as an "evocation of Los Angeles at the end of its Anglo Century." More about Rodriguez Institute for Justice and Journalism
USC Annenberg hosted a gathering of more than 300 rhetoricians from around the globe to discuss the history of rhetorical inquiry. The 15th biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric convened at USC from July 13-17, 2005. The program featured a broad range of panel discussions and presentations at USC and the Huntington Library in Pasadena, Calif. Communication professor G. Thomas Goodnight (pictured, top), one of the conference organizers, chaired a panel "Rhetorical Perspectives in Japan." Also, communication professor Stephen O'Leary a paper "Ranters, Levellers, and Diggers as Discourses and/or Movements: Heresy, dissent and the norms of religious rhetoric from the English Reformation to postcolonial America." English professor Lawrence Green (pictured, bottom) is the International President of ISHR and chaired the Global Roundtable discussions that were webcast.
Starting in the fall of 2005, the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and College of Letters, Arts and Sciences will jointly offer the world’s first degree program in public diplomacy. The two-year master's program will include graduate-level classes on topics such as international broadcasting, cultural diplomacy, corporate citizenship and images, and historical approaches...
Knight Chair in Media and Religion holder Diane Winston published an op-ed in the Sunday, June 12 Los Angeles Times about Hollywood’s unrealistic take on faith and religion. "If high ratings for the ridiculous NBC miniseries "Revelations" are a bellwether, Hollywood's next big thing may be spooky spirituality," Winston said. "Either that or the feel-good "Kingdom of Heaven"-type religious plot...