August 2014

Dear Dual Newhouse Student:

Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.

As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined the Newhouse part of your degree requirements and the Newhouse School Rules and Regulations in this manual. These materials are meant to supplement the materials on your core requirements which you will get from either the College of Arts and Sciences or the Whitman School of Management. (Core requirements are different for dually enrolled students than they are for singly enrolled students.) You are responsible for knowing these requirements.

You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Newhouse Student Affairs Office, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.

You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Undergraduate Advising and Records Office within the Newhouse School can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 443-4722).

One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under “Advising Services” on your SU portal. We encourage you to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, but you can see your adviser at any time during the semester. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.

In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Advising and Records Office, the Department Offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under “Advising Services” on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may contact him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time.

Since you are in two colleges, you have two sets of advisers. We do not think it is necessary for you to get two signatures on your registration materials. Your home college adviser is the person who will sign off on your future registrations. We still, of course, expect you to meet with your Newhouse adviser to discuss your major requirements and other concerns. We are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing career goals and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally, if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.
As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your faculty adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.

In the Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you. The Newhouse staff adviser, who will maintain your records, is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. A copy of your records is kept in this office. Before your senior year, you will be required to meet with your Newhouse professional adviser and have a DEGREE CHECK which will outline what you have left to complete to earn your Bachelor’s degree. At other times, if you feel uncertain about your requirements, you may request a copy of your check sheet to review with your adviser.

We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email regularly.

Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.

Sincerely,

Lorraine E. Branham 

Dean

Rosanna Grassi

Associate Dean for Student Affairs

August 2015

Dear Dual Newhouse Student:

Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.

As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined the Newhouse part of your degree requirements and the Newhouse School Rules and Regulations in this manual. These materials are meant to supplement the materials on your core requirements which you will get from either the College of Arts and Sciences or the Whitman School of Management. (Core requirements are different for dually enrolled students than they are for singly enrolled students.) You are responsible for knowing these requirements.

You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Newhouse Student Affairs Office, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.

You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Undergraduate Advising and Records Office within the Newhouse School can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 443-4722).

One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under “Advising Services” on your SU portal. We encourage you to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, but you can see your adviser at any time during the semester. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.

In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Advising and Records Office, the Department Offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under “Advising Services” on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may contact him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time.

Since you are in two colleges, you have two sets of advisers. We do not think it is necessary for you to get two signatures on your registration materials. Your home college adviser is the person who will sign off on your future registrations. We still, of course, expect you to meet with your Newhouse adviser to discuss your major requirements and other concerns. We are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing career goals and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally, if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.
As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your faculty adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.

In the Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you. The Newhouse staff adviser, who will maintain your records, is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. A copy of your records is kept in this office. Before your senior year, you will be required to meet with your Newhouse professional adviser and have a DEGREE CHECK which will outline what you have left to complete to earn your Bachelor’s degree. At other times, if you feel uncertain about your requirements, you may request a copy of your check sheet to review with your adviser.

We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email regularly.

Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.

Sincerely,

Lorraine E. Branham 

Dean

Rosanna Grassi

Associate Dean for Student Affairs

August 2016

Dear Dual Newhouse Student:

Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.

As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined the Newhouse part of your degree requirements and the Newhouse School Rules and Regulations in this manual. These materials are meant to supplement the materials on your core requirements which you will get from either the College of Arts and Sciences or the Whitman School of Management. (Core requirements are different for dually enrolled students than they are for singly enrolled students.) You are responsible for knowing these requirements.

You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Newhouse Student Affairs Office, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.

You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Undergraduate Advising and Records Office within the Newhouse School can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 443-4722).

One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under “Advising Services” on your SU portal. We encourage you to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, but you can see your adviser at any time during the semester. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.

In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Advising and Records Office, the Department Offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under “Advising Services” on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may contact him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time.

Since you are in two colleges, you have two sets of advisers. We do not think it is necessary for you to get two signatures on your registration materials. Your home college adviser is the person who will sign off on your future registrations. We still, of course, expect you to meet with your Newhouse adviser to discuss your major requirements and other concerns. We are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing career goals and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally, if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.
As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your faculty adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.

In the Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you. The Newhouse staff adviser, who will maintain your records, is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. A copy of your records is kept in this office. Before your senior year, you will be required to meet with your Newhouse professional adviser and have a DEGREE CHECK which will outline what you have left to complete to earn your Bachelor’s degree. At other times, if you feel uncertain about your requirements, you may request a copy of your check sheet to review with your adviser.

We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email regularly.

Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.

Sincerely,

Lorraine E. Branham 

Dean

Rosanna Grassi

Associate Dean for Student Affairs

August 2017

Dear Dual Newhouse Student:

Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.

As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined the Newhouse part of your degree requirements and the Newhouse School Rules and Regulations in this manual. These materials are meant to supplement the materials on your core requirements which you will get from either the College of Arts and Sciences or the Whitman School of Management. (Core requirements are different for dually enrolled students than they are for singly enrolled students.) You are responsible for knowing these requirements.

You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Newhouse Student Affairs Office, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.

You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Undergraduate Advising and Records Office within the Newhouse School can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 315-443-4722).

One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under “Advising Services” on your SU portal. We encourage you to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, but you can see your adviser at any time during the semester. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.

In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Advising and Records Office, the Department Offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under “Advising Services” on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may contact him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time.

Since you are in two colleges, you have two sets of advisers. We do not think it is necessary for you to get two signatures on your registration materials. Your home college adviser is the person who will sign off on your future registrations. We still, of course, expect you to meet with your Newhouse adviser to discuss your major requirements and other concerns. We are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing career goals and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally, if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.
As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your faculty adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.

In the Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you. The Newhouse staff adviser, who will maintain your records, is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. A copy of your records is kept in this office. Before your senior year, you will be required to meet with your Newhouse professional adviser ro review your DEGREE AUDIT which will outline what you have left to complete in order to earn your Bachelor’s degree. You may request a meeting at any time if you have questions or would like to review your degree requirement and plans.

We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email regularly.

Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.

Sincerely,

Lorraine E. Branham 

Dean

Rosanna Grassi

Associate Dean for Student Affairs

August 2018

Dear Dual Newhouse Student:

Welcome to Syracuse University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. A University is a special place in which a community of scholars—teachers and students—work together toward common goals and in the process develop individual skills and talents. It is an environment where people are challenged to discover their potential and challenge others. It assumes certain freedoms with which come corresponding responsibilities.

As a new citizen of this community, you will have many different roles and responsibilities. In order to help you understand the academic expectations at the Newhouse School, we have outlined the Newhouse part of your degree requirements and the Newhouse School Rules and Regulations in this manual. These materials are meant to supplement the materials on your core requirements which you will get from either the College of Arts and Sciences or the Whitman School of Management. (Core requirements are different for dually enrolled students than they are for singly enrolled students.) You are responsible for knowing these requirements.

You will not be without support in your academic pursuits. Academic advising at the Newhouse School includes your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office, the Newhouse Student Affairs Office, and the Newhouse Career Development Center.

You have already met your peer adviser. Peer advisers are volunteers who want to help new students. They are good students themselves, and they are knowledgeable about requirements and the University. While your peer adviser’s formal role ends after your first semester registration is complete, he or she is available to you as a resource throughout your first year, and you should not hesitate to contact your peer adviser. If you need help locating him or her, the Undergraduate Advising and Records Office within the Newhouse School can be of assistance (316 Newhouse 3, 315-443-4722).

One of the first relationships we hope you will establish at the University is with your faculty adviser. You have been assigned a faculty adviser to help you discover your interests and sort through your questions. If you are not certain who your adviser is, the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (316 Newhouse 3) can help you. Also, your adviser is listed on MySlice under “Advising Services” on your SU portal. We encourage you to see your faculty adviser at least once each semester before registration through your first and second year in the Newhouse School, but you can see your adviser at any time during the semester. In fact, if you are in your first year, you are currently scheduled for an advising seminar—COM 100: Seminar for First-Year Students—which meets during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Through this seminar, you will have regular contact with your faculty adviser and a small group of Newhouse students and become better acquainted with opportunities within the School and the University. We think you will find this seminar a valuable beginning to your University experience.

In addition to your Seminar, advisers have weekly office hours which are posted in the Newhouse Advising and Records Office, the Department Offices (318 Newhouse 3), on the adviser’s office door, and under “Advising Services” on MySlice. If you have a conflict with your adviser’s posted office hours, you may contact him or her and request an appointment at a mutually convenient time.

Since you are in two colleges, you have two sets of advisers. We do not think it is necessary for you to get two signatures on your registration materials. Your home college adviser is the person who will sign off on your future registrations. We still, of course, expect you to meet with your Newhouse adviser to discuss your major requirements and other concerns. We are encouraging you to see your adviser more as a resource and not just as the source of a formal signature. We hope you will see your adviser for many reasons, such as discussing career goals and internship opportunities. An adviser is a valuable contact who can help you academically and professionally, if you take the time to meet with him or her regularly.
As you discover more about what you would like to do professionally, you may decide to change your adviser to someone who can direct you more specifically in your area of interest. (You may change your faculty adviser by filling out the appropriate form in the Newhouse Undergraduate Advising and Records Office.) You will be assigned to an adviser in your major at the end of your sophomore year, if you have not chosen a major adviser before then.

In the Undergraduate Advising and Records Office (room 316 Newhouse 3), you have a professional staff adviser who has been assigned to you. The Newhouse staff adviser, who will maintain your records, is an expert on degree requirements and School or University procedures and rules and can often answer your questions. A copy of your records is kept in this office. Before your senior year, you will be required to meet with your Newhouse professional adviser ro review your DEGREE AUDIT which will outline what you have left to complete in order to earn your Bachelor’s degree. You may request a meeting at any time if you have questions or would like to review your degree requirement and plans.

We supplement advising at Newhouse with group meetings on various topics. Some will be required; some will be recommended. You will get advising mailings from us with important information one or more times during the semester. It is very important that you keep your local address current and accurate on MySlice and that you check your SU email regularly.

Your faculty adviser, your peer adviser, your professional staff adviser, the Career Development Center, and our offices are all here to offer help and guidance. We hope you will take the initiative to seek help when you need it and to take advantage of the opportunities we have structured for you. As any senior will tell you, your four undergraduate years will go by very quickly. We hope you will take charge of your time and education at the outset and make each one of your forty or so courses contribute to your learning and growth by exploring areas of interest, venturing into unfamiliar terrain, and expanding your knowledge and skills. We wish you great success.

Sincerely,

Lorraine E. Branham 

Dean

Rosanna Grassi

Associate Dean for Student Affairs

The Newhouse School’s mission is to educate ethical, visionary communicators whose goal is to establish an open marketplace of ideas guided by the First Amendment using contemporary professional practices.

In the course of earning their degree, students are expected to achieve the following educational outcomes:

1. Demonstrate strong writing ability.
2. Demonstrate the ability to construct and tell a story effectively in spoken words, images, text and through multi-media.
3. Understand and make use of information technology, and grasp its import for society.
4. Understand effective visual language and how to apply it to create visual messages and enhance communications.
5. Understand the events and issues of the day in public communications and society in an environment both encouraged and deepened by the liberal arts experience.
6. Think analytically, gain numerical proficiency and learn to develop well-researched positions on issues.
7. Demonstrate knowledge of the historical traditions in public communications and of industry practices and products.
8. Demonstrate a knowledge of ethical practice in the communications field, along with an understanding of the responsibilities media practitioners have for the public welfare.
9. Demonstrate an understanding of the First Amendment freedoms of speech and press along with a commitment to using these freedoms in the service of democracy.
10. Demonstrate the ability to work within a team under deadline pressure.
11. Develop the knowledge to compare and contrast media systems around the world.
12. Learn to value, embrace and support diversity in society and the media.
13. Learn to access, evaluate, synthesize and make use of information in the creation of media products.
14. Become media literate and a critical consumer of media content.

The Newhouse School’s mission is to educate ethical, visionary communicators whose goal is to establish an open marketplace of ideas guided by the First Amendment using contemporary professional practices. In the course of earning their degree, students are expected to achieve the following educational outcomes:

1. Identify the principles and laws of free speech and press for the U. S., as well as compare the American system of freedom of expression with others around the world, including the right to dissent, to monitor and criticize power, and to assemble and petition for redress of grievances.
2. Describe how professionalization has historically shaped the institutions in communications.
3. Explain mass communication in relation to social identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and, as appropriate, other forms of diversity in American society.
4. Recognize how the diversity of peoples and cultures has shaped mass communications in a global society.
5. Apply theories and concepts of design and visual communication to the use and presentation of images and information.
6. Recognize professional ethical principles and apply them in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness and diversity.
7. Critically, creatively, and independently consider problems and issues relevant to the communications professions.
8. Conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the communications professions.
9. Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences and purposes they serve.
10. Critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style and grammatical correctness.
11. Apply basic numerical and statistical concepts.
12. Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the communications professions in which they work.