News

Distinguished professor gives lecture on 'Philosophy of Communication'
Dr. Calvin O. Schrag gives lecture and has dinner with Honors and graduate students and Communication Studies faculty.
Course redesign aims to build better public speakers
A grant-funded course redesign is helping students replace fear with success when they stand up to for the dreaded excercise of public speaking.
'Communicating Forgiveness' examines process of forgiving
Real-life narratives chronicle relational conflict and the path to forgiveness in professors' book 'Communicating Forgiveness.'

FEATURED FACULTY

Dr. Greg Wise has published a new book Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide. For more information please visit the publisher's website. Congratulations to Dr. Wise! In the fall, Dr. Wise will be teaching CMN 557 Communication and Technology and CMN 124 Media and Culture.

The Wakonse Fellowship in Arizona.

Communication Studies Faculty Associate, Dr. Jodi Decker, has been selected to attend The Wakonse Fellowship in Arizona. This event brings together faculty, teaching and learning professionals from Arizona's postsecondary institutions who recognize and are devoted to the inspirational aspect of the teaching and learning process. The event takes place in Flagstaff from May 15-18.

New Faculty for Fall 2008

Carla Fisher is from Penn State and will be teaching Applied Interpersonal Communication. Judd Ruggill, Ph.D., is from the University of Arizona and will be teaching New Media.

Department of Communication Studies

Thank you for your interest in the Department of Communication Studies at Arizona State University's West campus. Communication underpins a great deal of what we do professionally and personally in our lives. In fact, it would be difficult to separate out any one part of our daily routines that did not involve some type of relational or mediated communication. Our department is devoted to exploring the multiplicity of factors that contribute to and detract from human communication. Because communication is so central to all that we do there is a great demand for graduates trained in effective communication skills, people who are able to not only write and speak well, but those who can convey complex ideas effectively, manage relationships well, demonstrate leadership, facilitate decision making, and design and critique public communication campaigns. Few other majors incorporate as diverse a set of competencies as Communication Studies. Students who pursue the major engage issues related to communication in organizations, in interpersonal relationships, in public, political, and social situations, and across cultures. They also explore the various communication technologies that continue to evolve and to shape the way in which we communicate as humans.

Dr. Jeff Kassing
Chair
602.543.6631
jkassing@asu.edu

New Communication Studies Faculty

Judd Ruggill studies digital technologies and the ways in which they are transforming the form and function of film, television, and other electronically-mediated forms of communication. He is also Co-Director of the Learning Games Initiative, a transdisciplinary, inter-institutional research group that studies, teaches with, and builds computer games. His scholarly work has appeared in a variety of books, journals, and periodicals, including Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, M/C Journal, Works and Days, FLOW, TEXT Technology, The International Digital Media and Arts Association Journal, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is co-editor with Joseph Chaney and Ken McAllister of the forthcoming The Computer Culture Reader (Cambridge Scholars), and co-author with Ken McAllister of Fluency in Play: Computer Game Design for Foreign Language Pedagogy (CERCLL, 2008) and the forthcoming Defining Games: Coming to Terms With a New Medium (U. of Alabama Press). In the fall Dr. Ruggill will be teaching CMN 457 New Media.