 The Department of Telecommunications is home to more than 220 majors with more than 1,700 alumni working in various fields, many of whom are now top executives in major media companies such as Time Warner Cable, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Sports Network, and Clear Channel. These distinguished alumni are members of our alumni advisory board.
With digitization and increasing convergence in the media and entertainment industry, more career opportunities are available for our graduates, who receive a well-rounded social science and professional skill curriculum in all aspects of the electronic media. The department is supported by professional facilities such as the TV studio, the public broadcast TV station WBGU, a FM radio station, WBGU-FM, and an online and cable radio station, WFAL, and various student media organizations that utilize these facilities.
Dr. Skinner, the chair of the department, is taking a sabbatical leave for a year from fall 2008-spring 2009.
The TCOM department is a member department of the School of Communication Studies, offering a master’s and a Ph.D. degree program. All tenure-track faculty in the department are graduate faculty members serving in the graduate program.
FOCUS AREAS
 Effective fall 2008, students will specialize in one of the following focus areas and take at least three courses from the focus area:
Interactive Media: Interactive Media Technologies II, Online Communities, Surveillance and Privacy
Media Business: Media Sales & Promotion, Telecommunications Programming, Telecommunications Management, Audience Research, Media Industry & Events
Radio: Radio Workshop, Radio Programming, Media Sales and Promotion, Telecommunications Management
Television/Video: Video II: Field Production and Editing Fundamentals , Video III, Scriptwriting, Topics in Documentary Studies, Practicum in Video Production
In addition, the department offers many university general education classes:
- Topics in Minorities TV and Film (Cultural Diversity)
- Media, Gender and Culture (Cultural Diversity)
- Media and Information Society (Social Science)
- Broadcast History (Social Science)
- Global Telecommunication Systems (Social Science)
- Media Research (Social Science)
- Online Communities (Social Science)
- TV and Film Criticism (Humanities)
For all courses offered by the department, see the Course Descriptions page or the BGSU Course Catalog.
Suggested Course Sequence for TCOM majors.
Guideline for Transfer Students
Mission
To prepare future community and national leaders in the media industry and proficient communication professionals in all types of organizations. Career opportunities are available in public and commercial radio and television, cable television, telephony, multimedia, web, advertising and education.
 
Graduates obtain such positions as television producers, technical directors, radio or television programmers, media sales executives, script writers, copy writers, radio announcers, audio and video editors, web page designers, sportscasters, promotion directors, station managers, and audience research analysts.
(Updated August 27, 2008) |
