A warm cyber-welcome to the Department of Communication & Media Studies. The University’s maxim—New York is my campus; Fordham is my school—could have been created for our field of study. The largest undergraduate major at Fordham, we’re headquartered on both Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses.
Let me tell you a few facts about current faculty and students to provide a general profile of who we are. Professors in the department bring top-flight academic credentials to every course. As I write this, I’m looking toward a bookcase shelving more than fifty volumes by current faculty. Professional backgrounds include former Vice President of CBS News, Vice President and General Manager of CBS Radio, Acting President of National Public Radio, Editor at Ms. and Working Woman, award-winning novelist and playwright, CBS Bureau Chief in Moscow (Emmy winner), and CBS Bureau Chief in Rome. Faculty appear often in national media including, recently, The New York Times, USA Today, National Public Radio, CBS Evening News, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, NBC News, and many others.
Current undergraduate students are doing internships at ABC News, Atlantic Records, BBC, Bravo, CBS Sports, CBS Sunday Morning, The Colbert Report, Columbia Films, Cosmopolitan, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, ESPN, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, MTV, NBC Nightly News, New York City Opera, Sesame Street, Simon & Schuster, 60 Minutes, Time, The Today Show, and The Wall Street Journal. Our alumni include winners of Peabody, Dupont, and Emmy Awards, a Fulbright Scholar, past President of Associated Press, a National Book Award winner (Don DeLillo) and the Yankees’ play-by-play TV broadcaster (Michael Kay).
Our curriculum is broad and diverse. A sampler of courses might include media and popular culture, digital technologies, media and politics, gender and media, new-new media, media ecology, TV and film studies, minority representation in the press, communication and the law, international journalism, communication ethics, censorship, advertising and persuasion, media and broadcasting history, media industries, and music industries.
I’ve chosen to profile the Department by offering lists of faculty backgrounds, student activities, alumni achievements, and curricular samples. However, such lists do not capture the spirit of the Department. Communication & Media Studies cares about the personal and professional development of individual students. Day-to-day interactions are vigorous and provocative, and always friendly.
Come visit us at either location, in Manhattan or in the Bronx. You’ll be most welcome.
JVO
James VanOosting
Chair
