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Beering Documentary

New Course Offered

SPJ Revived

Redding Fellowship





The Communicator is the official newsletter of the Purdue University Department of Communication and produced by students in COM252H under adviser Jane Gibson Natt




Drawing
        Rave
              Reviews

Department alumnus Len Cox is drawing attention – and awards – for his use of film to communicate today's social issues to audiences.

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 ... While              
        Staying  
                          Connected

Junior Emily Cline wants a career in communication. But it wasn't until she stepped into the  Department of
Communication's new computer lab that she got
introduced to some of the software
she'll need to be successful.

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When communication principles and strategies merge with technology, changes are bound to happen. That was the message of Dr. Moira Gunn when she spoke to a communication class as part of the Old Masters Program.

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Going Global ...

     In the classroom

The professor concluded her COM674C Global Organizations class lecture with an open discussion.  She and her six students watched a nearby television monitor silently as several graduate students, seatedworld around a conference table on the Champaign-Urbana campus, shuffled through their notes.

"This is Josh at Illinois.  I have a question," said a phantom voice from the group on the television facing the Purdue computer lab.  

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   And abroad

Katie Berger comes from the small town of Remington, Ind. Population: 1,000. It is so small, in fact, that it doesn't even have a stoplight.  The junior journalism major wanted to do something "no one in my little town has done." What she chose to do was study abroad.

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