Communication Department

Dear Dean David V. Powers,

This is a letter in response to the issue of keeping the Communication and Journalism Department autonomous, but with cuts to certain areas of the department.

You may think that the journalism field is slowly dying and that a the Communication and Journalism department is in jeopardy of becoming a useless department on its own, however, you must agree with me when I say that the advantages of having a communications department provide us students with an enormous range of opportunities. The communication department is split between journalism, strategic, PR, and others and with all these various majors, students have found mass opportunities in the real world, especially online opportunities.

So, I propose this solution to keeping the department autonomous and expanding the realm of online journalism and communication in the department. You should know that the majority of internships and jobs that communication majors get are through online companies and internet based communications.

To re-state, my proposal is to keep the department as is, but an expansion is crucial. Journalism majors especially need to keep our print journalism classes to gain knowledge of feature and profile writing. However, there are classes that seem to overlap each other and therefore i would compromise to the cut backs of certain classes in print journalism. However, a more expanding online journalism wing would be desirable and effective in preparing journalists and other communication majors for jobs and internships.