University of Wisconsin-Madison
While every academic year brings new challenges, it also brings new proof of our department’s unrelenting momentum. Through the talent of our students, the commitment of our faculty and staff, and the support of our alumni, Communication Arts is making an impact more widely and across more boundaries than ever before.
Art projects can be a transformative force for Latine youth, offering a vibrant avenue for self-expression and cultural pride.
Good things come in threes, and that has certainly been true for our Communication Science area this year. Not one, not two, but three Communication Science graduate students are preparing to expand their families in the coming months as they welcome new children into their lives.
Ever wondered what an old flame is up to? For better or worse, an answer
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The 4W Gender and Migration in Media project hosts screenings, book discussions and invited talks centered around gendered representations and nuances around migration in media. The effort explores migration both within and across boundaries of all kinds – national, cultural, geographic and more – and studies the different ways stories of migrants and refugees are narrated and represented.
TikTok is indeed everywhere— on our phones, in the news, even in our classrooms. Just the other day in my class on global digital cultures, an undergraduate student presented a case for TikTok as a “cultural infrastructure,” a day-to-day, routine app for the younger demographics that surround our scholarly endeavors.
At a university large enough to warrant its own zip code, how do you help an entire campus, full of people with different viewpoints and perspectives, learn to engage effectively across difference?
While many students may be thinking about scary thrills during Halloween week, students in our new postproduction class have been thinking about and creating those experiences all semester. Communication Arts instructor Craig Erpelding created the new capstone course to help students explore a variety of postproduction workflows as they re-edit a found footage horror film.
Communication science professor Catalina Toma offers tips for being honest, strategic, and swipe-worthy online.
You may have heard a college student refer to their experiences outside the classroom as “real life.” How can we dispel the impression that what happens in the classroom is somehow disconnected from students’ lives? How can we make our courses more “real” to students? And how might this infusion of “real life” into the classroom motivate student learning and engagement? Read on for small changes that can make your assignments more authentic and encourage student motivation and learning.