Department of Media and Communication

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John Allen Hendricks, chair
Boynton Building, Suite 301
Phone: (936) 468-4001
Fax: (936) 468-1331
P.O. Box 13048, SFA Station
Nacogdoches, TX 75962
Email: jhendricks@sfasu.edu
Web: sfasu.edu/masscomm

Faculty

Professors
Casey Hart, John Allen Hendricks, Larry J. King, Linda Levitt, Sudeshna Roy, R. Tyler Spradley

Associate Professors
Elizabeth Spradley, Bailey Airs Thompson

Assistant Professors
Janice Cho, Ghanem Elhersh, Michael T. Welsh

Lecturer
Tom Reynolds

Professor Emeritus
Gary Mayer, James Edward Towns

Associate Professor Emeritus
Alan Gruele

Objectives

The mission of the Department of Media and Communication is to prepare students for careers in existing and emerging forms of mass media with an emphasis on critical thinking, ethical values, creativity, professional skills and social responsibility. The student will:

1. demonstrate the ability to write effectively across a variety of platforms appropriate to the discipline
2. gather, organize and analyze discipline-appropriate research and communicate information about it
3. understand the role of media in society
4. comprehend legal and ethical principles relating to media
5. and demonstrate the application of media technology, terminology and techniques.

Internships

Mass communication internships provide qualified students with on-the-job experience and academic credit for working in professional media settings. The internship course provides opportunities to observe and analyze the methods, techniques and creative processes of professionals.

To be eligible to gain three hours of academic credit for an internship, students must:

1. have junior standing
2. have at least 15 to 18 hours of mass communication courses
3. have an overall GPA of 2.0 or higher
4. and be a declared mass communication major or minor.

Internship application forms must be completed and returned to the Department of Mass Communication, located in the Boynton Building, Room 301.

Student Media

Practical experience is available to students in electronic and print media through supervised work with the university’s media facilities: SFA-TV2; the KAXM-FM radio station; the student newspaper, The Pine Log; and the student yearbook, the Stone Fort.

Communication National Honor Society

Membership in Lamda Pi Eta, the national communication honor society, is open to outstanding advanced-level students of communication.

Programs

• Media and Communication, BA
• Media and Communication, BS

• Advertising/Public Relations Concentration
• Broadcast Journalism Concentration
• Social Media Concentration, Mass Communication

• Communication Studies Minor
• Mass Communication, Minor
• Social Media, Minor

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