Our mission is to prepare credible, creative Christian professionals for a world where the mastery of communication skills and technologies is essential.
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
|  Please join us on Tuesday, October 28, at 8:30 p.m. EST for a MCOM Town Hall gathering.
MCOM Town Halls bring together the entire MCOM community-faculty, students, and staff-with information about the MCOM program, upcoming opportunities, and announcements.
If you are unable to attend let Terri know as soon as possible.
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MCOM at NCA and RCA
| We are packing our bags for the National Communication Association (NCA) conference in Chicago, November 20-23. If you will be at the conference (or in the area) let us know so that we can connect.
MCOM is also hosting the Religious Communication Association (RCA) awards dinner at NCA on Friday, November 21. The banquet is being held at The Gage (24 S. Michigan Ave) at 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. This event commemorates our 10th anniversary.
Many of our MCOM professors will also be attending the RCA pre-conference on Wednesday, November 19, at the University of Illinois' Student Center West.
On Saturday, November 22, MCOM will host a brunch at the LM Brasserie (800 S. Michigan Ave) at 10 a.m. Please let us know if you are able to attend and we'll send you the details. Text Terri at 517.937.8331.
Remember, you don't have to attend either conference to attend the banquet or the brunch. And we'll treat! As always, Dr. Metts is up for a cup of tea if you'd like to chat.
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Student Achievements
| We really liked what Hannah Fries had to say about social media and churches. Hannah's paper from the summer Computer Mediated Communication course is a great tool to give your pastor or church leadership.
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Faculty Achievements
| Dr. Robert Woods will chair a panel on "Ancient-Future Communication: Exploring Influential Theological Past(s) in Our Theoretical Present(s)," at the annual meeting of the Religious Communication Association, November 2014, Chicago, Illinois.
In August, at the conference in Montreal for the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Dr. Wally Metts was elected head of the Small Program Interest Group (SPIG), a forum for faculty in small programs whose primary emphasis is teaching, advising, and mentoring undergraduate students. SPIG helps plan programming for the conference in San Francisco next summer and coordinates various services and publications for its members.
Later this month Dr. Metts is on four panels at #CollegeMedia14 in Philadelphia. Over 1,400 student journalists from both private and public universities attend this annual event.
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Register for Spring 2015
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Registration for the 2014-15 school year is open. Registering now for Spring 2014 courses helps us determine class sizes, etc.
Spring 2015 courses begin on January 26 and conclude on May 3. There is a one week break March 9-15.
Courses offered in the Spring 2015 semester:
COM 502 Graduate Seminar
COM 504 Communication Theory & Worldview
COM 603 Group and Public Communication
COM 605 Mass Communication, Culture, and Technology
COM 520/EDU 560 Instructional Technology
COM 632 Communicating Change: Spiritual Formation & Renewal
COM 540 Writing as Vocation
COM 694 Research Methods in Communication II (Capstone)
Remember the key to easy, online enrollment is to have an approved plan at the time of registration. Check with Terri if you need help.
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Job Opportunity
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Dr. Metts is in need of a research assistant for a curriculum project. Please email him at [email protected] for details.
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A birthday present for you! (Have YOU replied yet?)
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 We've had 26 responses to our alumni survey. Have you replied yet? Where are you? What are you up to these days? Fill out our easy, breezy Google MCOM survey and Terri will send you a nifty stylus pen just for staying in touch.
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Conference & Credit Opportunities
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Networking is important to our field. We have a limited number of $250 conference grants that can be used to help defray your cost at a local, regional, or national communication conference. There is also an opportunity for credit.
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 We are celebrating our 10th anniversary this year, a tribute to the many students who have excelled and persevered. We hope to see several of you in Chicago this November when we will be sponsoring the awards dinner for the Religious Communication Association.
But if you can't make it, we certainly want to hear from you, whether you are one of our current students or one of our distinguished graduates. We'd like to hear how this program has made or is making your life better. More than that, we'd like to hear how we can do better.
There are changes coming next fall-seven-week courses, different program options, and improved online tools. Now is the best time to have input into what we do and how we do it.
You will also start to see our program marketed much more aggressively online. But remember our best referrals are the ones that come from you.
So call me and tell me how we can do a better job. Or have your friend call me about how we might be able to help him or her. My cell is 517.414.1934-and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Wally Metts, director
department of communication and media
cell-517.414.1934
[email protected] |
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