Julia Perry ‘20 and her Business of Creative Enterprises (BCE) cohort made Emerson College history this spring when they became the first-ever graduating class in its BCE undergrad program. Beyond the College, the small cohort of 30-plus students left a lasting impression with real-world clients after they provided six local partners with applicable creative business services.
Through the first half of the spring 2020 semester, students in the Journalism course TV News Magazine and Documentary had been developing short documentaries on subjects related to social change. But when production was disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions, they, along with Assistant Professor Gino Canella, saw the opportunity to expand their projects into multimedia websites, with deeply satisfying results.
The International Public Relations course in the Communication Studies department focuses on global and international media relations, social media, branding, media management, crisis communication, and policy. Students of the class then apply those concepts at GlobComm, coordinating across geographic, cultural, language, religious, technological, and national differences — just as they would in a professional setting.
In any other year, the students in Associate Professor Marsha Della Giustina’s broadcast journalism capstone class would have spent the semester producing their own half-hour television program about a topic of their choice. Each student would have contributed to each of their classmates’ programs, in roles such as anchor, reporter, or associate producer.
Started in 2005, the E3 minor in Emerson’s School of Communication (SOC) is a yearlong immersive program designed to teach students from all majors how to build and launch their own business ventures. Directed by Lu Ann Reeb, Senior Executive-in-Residence in Marketing Communication, this year’s E3 class went remote along with the rest of the college in March due to the COVID-19 crisis. , leaving Reeb to instruct students both one-on-one and as a group across five time zones and four countries — including China, India, Costa Rica and the U.S.
The ‘On The Same Page’ virtual book campaign is refreshing the bookshelves and mindsets of Boston teenagers this year as a part of a unique collaboration between Emerson Professor Cathryn Edelstien’s Nonprofit Fundraising Campaign class and students from Hyde Park’s New Mission High School (NMHS). The impact is both immediate and ongoing — allowing for generations of teens at NMHS and beyond to see themselves in stories.
This spring, Emerson College has more students participating in The Boston Globe Co-op Program than ever before, and also more than any other college — And their efforts continue in more than unusual times amid the coronavirus outbreak.
“What we’re doing here is a really big deal because it hasn’t been done before.”
This is what Ethan Schwartz said to his team exactly one week before this year’s College Esports Expo (CEX). Schwartz was the Student-Chairman and Lifestyle Track Lead for CEX 2020. “I wanted everyone to have an overall understanding of what we were building here,” Schwartz said.
As CSD students and faculty have transitioned to remote teaching and learning like the rest of the College, they are finding ways to maintain their connections and camaraderie from a distance.
As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the well-being and livelihood of millions around the world, clear and effective health communication is more crucial than ever. Meanwhile, social anxiety and confusion seems to be growing amid inconsistent and contradicting messages from government officials and the media, says Deion Hawkins, a health communication scholar and assistant professor of Communication Studies.
