School of Communication and Media Arts
The School of Communication and Media Studies (SCMA) combines the social and cultural analysis of media and communication technologies with media production, including digital video, broadcast and print journalism, television, radio, photography, advertising, public relations, and digital multimedia. The SCMA curriculum is interdisciplinary by nature and international in scope, blending theory and practice and the historical, contemporary, and mainstream with the alternative.
The department offers three undergraduate majors: Communication Studies (CS), Digital Communication (DC), and Media Arts (MA), with the CS major divided into two concentrations—Advertising Media/Public Relations and Sports Media—and the MA major divided into two concentrations—Film, Television, and Media and Journalism. All three majors explore everything from broadcasting, filmmaking, and journalism to advertising, public relations, web design, and digital and multimedia production. The school gives all of its students immediate access to the latest technology and software in order to prepare them for the career path they choose within the media or communication industries or in another field.
Our overall goal is to produce responsible media scholars, consumers, and communication professionals who 1.) analyze the social effect, moral substance, and aesthetic value of the media, and 2.) learn the social and creative skills involved in the conception, shaping, and execution of their own media/communication projects and career paths.
Faculty
JOSEPH ALICASTRO, B.S.
Clinical Instructor
LORI BINDIG, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
JAMES CASTONGUAY, Ph.D.
Professor, Director
DEBBIE DANOWSKI, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
RICHARD FALCO, B.A.
Clinical Instructor
GREGORY GOLDA, M.Ed.
Clinical Instructor
SIDNEY GOTTLIEB, Ph.D.
Professor
DAMON MAULUCCI, MFA
Visiting Assistant Professor
ANDREW MILLER, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
PAUL PABST, B.A.
Clinical Instructor
SARA (Sally) ROSS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
BRIAN THORNE, B.S.
Clinical Instructor
WILLIAM YOUSMAN, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
SCMA Facilities
The School of Communication and Media Studies is housed in the Frank and Marisa Martire Communications Center. Facilities include two full-size television studios, a film sound stage, one flash studio with a robotic camera, two control rooms, one media lab, six individual edit rooms, two screening rooms, a motion-capture lab, a full-featured student radio studio, and one large media theater. In addition, SCMA is the location of some of the most active student groups on campus, and these organizations find new and improved meeting and productions suites in the Martire Center.