Welcome from the Department Chair
Dr. Louisa Ha The Department of Telecommunications is home to more than 200 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.
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.
The TCOM department is a member department of the School of Media and Communication, 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
Students specialize in one of the following focus areas and take at least three courses from the focus area:
Interactive Media: Practicum in Interactive Online Media production, Online Social media or Surveillance & privacy, and one of the following (Online social media, Media Sales & Promotion, Telecommunications programming, Surveillance & privacy)
Media Business: Media Sales & Promotion, Telecommunications Programming, and two of the following (Telecommunications Management, Audience Research, Media Industry & Events)
Radio:Radio Workshop, Radio Programming, and one of the following (Media Sales & Promotion, Telecommunications Management, Telecommunications Programming)
Television/Video:Video II: Field Production and Editing Fundamentals, one of the following (Scriptwriting, workshop on Current Topics, Topics in Documentary Studies, Video III: Advanced Directing and Producing) and one of the following (Telecommunications programming, Practicum in Video Production)
In addition, the department offers many university general education classes:
TCOM2700 Topics in Minorities TV and Film (Cultural Diversity and Humanities)
TCOM4670 Media, Gender and Culture (Cultural Diversity)
TCOM1030 Media and Information Society (Social Science)
TCOM3650 Broadcast History (Social Science)
TCOM3550 Global Telecommunication Systems (Social Science)
TCOM3600 Media Research (Social Science)
TCOM4520 Online Social Media (Social Science)
TCOM4660 TV and Film Criticism (Humanities)
For all courses offered by the department, see the Course Descriptions page or the BGSU Course Catalog.
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The Department of Telecommunications is home to more than 200 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 
Students specialize in one of the following focus areas and take at least three courses from the focus area: