Department of Communication
The Department of Communication at Virginia Tech focuses on communication processes and their effects on individuals, organizations, culture, and society. Faculty and students create, distribute, and interpret messages through media systems. Students build knowledge and skills for future study and work in public relations, multimedia journalism or communication studies.
Congratulations to Communication major Tempest West for being chosen as a C21S Fellow on behalf of the Center for 21st Century Studies within the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Tempest will participate in the Summer 2012 nomadic study abroad experience.
Comm faculty/grads present at NCA convention in New Orleans
Congrats to our faculty and grad students who presented at the 97th Annual 2011 National Communication Association convention November 17-20, 2011 in New Orleans! read more....
Denton Awarded 2011 Distinguished Book Award
Robert E. Denton, Jr.’s co-edited book (with John Hendricks), Communicator-in-Chief: How Barack Obama used New Media Technology to Win the White House, has been awarded the 2011 Distinguished Book Award by the National Communication Association’s Applied Communication Division. The award will be presented at the annual National Communication Association Convention on November 19, 2011.
Department of Communication Multimedia Center
The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech will house the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology with an array of labs and studios devoted to creative technologies and innovative curriculum design. Within this area of the center also will be located the multimedia studio, production control room, newsroom, and associated classroom in support of the Department of Communication.
Consisting of the latest digital production capabilities, the multimedia center will enable high definition production programming, news production, and digital journalism across many platforms. Virginia Tech’s Department of Communication will occupy the space in an academic capacity with curriculum including multimedia journalism and television production. The location of the multimedia center in the Center for the Arts, however, will offer opportunities for integrated research and performances that will be distributed within the building walls, across campus, and throughout the community and state.
For more information on the Center for the Arts please visit http://www.vt.edu/spotlight/innovation/2011-05-30-arts-center/fly-through.html
Upcoming Events
1/17/12 Force Adds will be accepted today only for seniors graduating in May and Comm majors with no Comm classes. Please submit forms by 4:00 pm Procedures
37th Annual AEJMC Southeast Colloquium
March 8-10, 2012
Featured Photo
COMM Senior Rachel Gallimore explores different camera angles to photograph the gazebo at Wong Park. For this activity, photojournalism students were challenged to take photos beyond what they see at eye-level.