College Offers International Summer Media Workshops

ITALY—Cal State Fullerton students will have the opportunity to study communications under the Tuscan sun this summer when the College of Communications kicks off its first International Summer Media Workshop in Florence, Italy.

The workshop, to be held from July 10 to 28, will include two communications courses, Global Media Systems and History & Philosophy of American Mass Communications. Both will use the city of Florence as its classroom. Numerous field experiences will complement classroom activities.

The courses will be taught by Dr. Tony Fellow (Journalism), who visits the city twice a year. He was named director of Cal State Florence Study Center during summer 2004. He also taught Mass Communications in Modern Society and Italian Cinema there.

Students will meet in Florence Monday through Friday for 45 minutes. A final paper will be due five weeks after the conclusion of the course. “It is a magical and wonderful city in which to study,” Fellow said. “I still marvel when I walk the streets Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and DaVinci walked. Students will find so much to learn, see and do there.”

KOREA—A second media workshop will be offered right at home. The second workshop at Fullerton will consist of two courses in communication and media with themes such as communication principles, media studies, and communication management. This inauguration year, the workshop at Fullerton offers two courses: Principles of Advertising and Principles of Communication Research, and includes a packaged tour of professional media organizations.

Twenty to 30 undergraduate students from Inha University in South Korea will come to the Fullerton campus for a period of three weeks, with an additional week assigned for tours and sightseeing. Inha University, ranked ninth in Korea, is located in Incheon west of Seoul with a student population of about 20,000.

Dr. Kuen-Hee Ju-Pak(advertising) will serve as the advisor for this program. While the program starts with Inha University, it will be open to students from Japan and other Asian countries in the future.