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Video editing equipment will bring university up to speed Kristin Harty August 19, 2009 11:49 pm Click here to read entire article
____________________ "[J]ournalism school and other mass communication curricula are not best used when they train students for the first six months of their employment; they should rather prepare their graduates for the years that follow the first six months: not in the skills which enable the young employee to do well at first, but rather in the understandings which enable him to do well throughout his career. There is no reason why he should not learn some skill, too; but, whenever there has to be a choice of time between learning the vocational skills and gaining the broad understanding of society and mass communication's place in it, the time should always be used for the broader and less immediately useful studies. The schools should aim for the long, not the short term; for on his job the new man can much more easily learn the skills of his job than he can learn to understand human beings, social organization, government, economics and science." --Wilbur Schramm, Early Mass Communication Scholar ____________________ If you would like additional information about the Department of Mass Communication, please contact us at...
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