Communication Arts

Investigate strategic, creative, visual, and design communication

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Our interdisciplinary communication curriculum is varied and flexible -- and anchored by real-world, professional preparation. Reflecting an educational philosophy grounded in experiential learning and the liberal arts, Centenary’s Communication Arts Program focuses on developing higher order thinking skills to promote critical, strategic decision-making in the support of active problem solving. In our studio-workshops, students engage real clients in social media, public relations, and design projects; they write, shoot, and edit films for festival competitions; and they produce multimedia journalism and podcasts -- all while gaining coveted professional experience from internships.

Centenary's Communication majors pursue one of three rich concentrations of study that overlap in key areas: Creative Strategic Content, Film/Television/Video, or New Media Design. All Communication majors develop key contemporary communication skills including strategic planning, content development and professional writing, digital film and audio production, cultural analysis, and design communication. In their senior year, graduating students create an individualized portfolio of original work designed to launch professional careers. Our competitively prepared students build innovative professional pathways while simultaneously productively shaping the communities in which they live and work.

Film/Television/Video

Our Film/Television/Video concentration prepares students to professionally engage the dynamic areas of audio/visual media scriptwriting, production, promotion, and distribution.

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New Media Design

Our new media design concentration allows students to master the methods and practices associated with multimedia, web, user-interface, and digital graphic design in the contexts of branding and campaign management.

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Creative Strategic Content

In the Creative Strategic Content concentration students develop and hone high-demand professional skills sought by a wide-variety of companies, businesses, and organizations: strategic communication and planning, social media marketing, public & media relations, multimedia journalism, podcasting, and sports information.

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Teri Johnson

Creative • Passionate • Determined

Teri is a recent graduate from Centenary and has a BA in Communication. She now lives in South Carolina where she is the Manager of Game Operations and Creative Services for a professional hockey team, the Greenville Swamp Rabbits. 

While at Centenary Terri wrote and self-published three poetry books, served as the Director of Social Media and Marketing for the Shreveport Mudbugs, and won multiple ADDY awards. 

 

 

Featured Faculty and Student Work

Centenary student's winning documentary film

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COMM/ART 451 Multimedia Campaign Final Instagram Story

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Students present their final logo redesign projects.

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Ben Green's table read of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt : Kimmy learns Self Defense

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Professor and R.Z. Biedenharn Chair in Communication, Michelle Glaros R.Z. Biedenharn Chair in Communication presents a trailer for her film Serama Serenade.

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Students on the Mississippi Delta Module visit the site of Muddy Waters' home.

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Rock and Soul Museum. Mississippi Delta Module. The museum chronicles the intersection, thus creation, of the blues that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Memphis Cotton Exchange. Mississippi Delta Module. This was the national hub for the exchange in the postbellum south.

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Chelsea Perry '17

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DJ Hicks '16

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Publication design by Professor Jessica Hawkins

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Contact Info

Dr. Michelle Glaros

R.Z. Biedenharn Chair in Communication

Turner Art Center

318.869.5264 mglaros@centenary.edu

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