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 …
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He Made a Zombie Film in Comm Arts: CA 155
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 …
Teaching and Learning Symposium 2013
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 …
Kelly Jakes Wins Dana-Allen Fellowship
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 …
Congratulations Comm Arts Graduates!
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 …
An Evening with Errol Morris
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 …
Communication Arts Showcase: Saturday, May 11 @ 7:00pm, 4070 Vilas Hall
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 …
Mitch Weckerly: Investing in the Future
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 …
Undergraduate Scholarships
Every year, the Communication Arts department gives back to its students with a series of scholarships aimed to help Comm Arts’ hardest working majors. These scholarships are possible through the generosity of our alumni and …
What Is Authorship in Cinema?
Kent Jones will be in Madison this Thursday, April 18, giving a talk entitled “What is Authorship in Cinema?” at 4 p.m. in Vilas Hall 4070. Jones is a prominent film critic and filmmaker, and …