With the telecommunication industry now expanding in the new age of digital technology, the College of Communication has devoted itself to maintaining "cutting-edge," state of the art facilities in all of its departments.

Journalism students now deal with "convergence" of technological platforms in all of the sequences, print, photo and broadcast as they shoot and edit news stories with latest digital equipment, design websites and use new streaming video techniques and the CNN "Pathfire"satellite "video on demand" retrieval system. Newsrooms use the new Associated Press Electronic News Production System.

Television now uses digital technology in both field and post production with Avid non-linear editing suites. New programs and techniques are also explored in our "TV Hothouse" course. In Film, the latest Avid non-linear digital editing is performing high end post production and special effects.

Advertising, PR and Mass Comm students may attend classes and create projects in seven multimedia labs containing over 160 multimedia workstations. Students can choose to work on the Mac or PC, or develop skills on both platforms. Multimedia classes build students’ computer skills with the production of video, sound, animation, print and web site design projects.