Please encourage students to check out the MCMA Spring 2011 Class Preview Day this Friday. It is a great opportunity for a "sneak peek" at what is being offered. Any help you can give in getting the word out would be appreciated.

Want the chance to check out a Spring 2011 course ahead of time? Take advantage of the College's Spring 2011 Class Preview Day  this Friday, October 29th in the COMM Building.

The following classes are being showcased. Each participant will be given a ticket upon the conclusion of any session which may be turned in for pizza at 12:30. Program brochures will be available in COMM 1032 the day of the event. 

This is a FREE program. 

Session I 11:00-11:20

MCMA 396/JRNL 419 Publishing on the WWW/Online Journalism         Stoner         COMM 1205

RT 489 003/MCMA 497 001 Gender, Militarization and Media                         Brooten       COMM 1032

JRNL 337 Video/Online Journalism                     Helleny        COMM 1122

Session II 11:30-11:50

RT 357 Media Promotion                          Wall                 RT Conf., Room

CP 260 Understanding Visual Media            Felleman         COMM 1122

MCMA 563 Globalization, Culture and Media    Brooten           COMM 1032

JRNL 410 Multimedia Project: Reports            Recktenwald   COMM 1205

Session III 12:00-12:20

JRNL 435 Advanced Graphic Communication                      Veenstra       COMM 1205

RT 489 001/MCMA 555 002 Media in the Lives of Childhood and Adolescents Lemish         COMM 1032

RT 305 Audience Research                       Wall             RT Conf. Room

CP 452 Screenwriting                  Rowley        COMM 1122

Lunch 12:30-12:55

Session IV 1:00- 1:20

RT 461/digital graphics classes Multimedia Production                     Lewison     COMM 1046

CP 102 Intro to Sound and Image Production                      Aguayo      COMM 1122

Session V 1:30- 1:50

RT 489 002 Blaxploitation Films of the 1970's     Lawrence       COMM 1046

CP 470D Generative Art                                 Spahr             COMM 1122

MCMA 555 004 Policy Reporting and Research        Freivogel       COMM 1032

Questions? Contact Deborah Tudor at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

William Recktenwald, Senior Lecturer, Journalist-in-Residence, was featured on the WSIL News-3 This Morning show talking about the Shawnee Forest Book and multimedia website. The Shawnee Project multimedia project is available online at www.shawneeforest.net.

Four SIUC School of Journalism faculty members and three semesters-worth of a multimedia class set out to show Southern Illinois the natural wonders to be found in their back yard.

The project, "The Shawnee Forest: Illinois' Hidden Gem" includes a book and a multimedia Web site. Students documented the natural beauty, the people and the history of the forest and visited areas such as Little Grand Canyon and Cache River.

As Bill mentions during the interview, The Shawnee Forest book sells for $29.95. Phone the jschool office (453-3361) or stop by to purchase. Email is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Also available at retailers throughout Southern Illinois, such as Bookworm. Funds collected will be used to fund another multimedia project.

More information about this book and project is available through a previous MCMA News item at http://mcma.siu.edu/news/siuc-faculty-and-students-create-shawnee-project.

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- William Recktenwald, Southern Illinois University Carbondale's journalist-in-residence, next month will recount his first-hand experience from one of the deadliest natural disasters in history.

Recktenwald was having breakfast on the south coast of Sri Lanka on Dec. 26 when a tsunami struck southern Asia. He grabbed his camera and began snapping photographs and moments later, was fighting for survival in 16 feet of water.

Recktenwald's presentation will highlight "After the Tsunami," Thursday, Feb. 10, in Student Center Ballroom B. The program begins at 4 p.m. and is free.

The program also features SIUC students from the affected countries who will discuss their unique perspectives on the tsunami.

Approximately 430 SIUC students are from the nine affected nations - Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Thailand. In addition, the University has nine formal linkages with universities and governmental agencies in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Thailand.

"This is a tremendous opportunity for members of the university community and people across our region to hear about this disaster in a uniquely personal way - from an SIUC professor who battled it and from international students whose countries were wracked by it," Public Policy Director

Mike Lawrence said. "It is a dramatic way to bring us closer to a part of the world that many of us really don't know much about."

The program will also provide an opportunity to make a contribution to the relief fund for the disaster recovery. Chancellor Walter V. Wendler's office is accepting checks payable to the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, on behalf of several student groups.

Forum sponsors are the Public Policy Institute, SIUC International Student Council and the SIUC International Programs and Services Office.

For more information, contact the Public Policy Institute at 618/453-4009.