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Lea Jacobs, a film professor in Communication Arts, has been named Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities in the Graduate School. As one of the associate deans, she will manage faculty and student issues …

The Department of Communication Arts Chair and WCFTR Director Vance Kepley is very pleased to announce the successful completion of a major, year-long effort to systematically reprocess one of the Center’s most important archival collections. …

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture, Karma Chávez, has been selected to receive this year’s Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award.  This prestigious honor bestowed by the National Communication Association (NCA) places Professor Chávez amongst a list …

Last spring, then-freshman Sam Acker was hard at work directing and filming a movie with a small cast and crew about a zombie apocalypse–learning cinematography, studio lighting, website design, and Photoshop. Now, he feels more …

On May 22nd and 23rd, the 2013 Teaching and Learning Symposium, “Sparking Innovation: Ideas to Impact” took place at Union South. The goal of this year’s Symposium was to share ideas and best practices that …

Each year, the Institute for Research in the Humanities awards the Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellowship to exceptional doctoral dissertators in the humanities at UW-Madison. This year, Comm Arts PhD student Kelly Jakes is one of the …

You’ve worked hard, played hard, and studied harder. You’ve trekked across the Humanities bridge on icy mornings, heading for lectures in 4070. You’ve turned in your final papers and taken your final exams. It’s time …

On Thursday, May 16th at 6:00pm in Union South’s Marquee Theater, Errol Morris will present a special screening of his Academy Award-winning documentary The Fog of War. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session and a …

At the end of each semester, the hard work of the Communication Arts media production students culminates in the Communication Arts Showcase, in which the best work from the semester is shown on the big …

Between the classroom and the career lies the internship. An internship gives students the opportunity to shadow their prospective career path of choice, gaining industry connections and cultivating the exact skills needed to succeed. Undergraduate …