On the evening of May 7, the top 12 persuasive speakers enrolled in the spring semester of Communication Arts 100 competed in the CA 100 Speech Contest. The speech contest is a long-standing tradition at the end of each semester. Teaching assistants from all sections of the course submitted the speeches of their top two …
The Communication Arts Student Association (CASA) is officially a student org at UW-Madison! Executive board elections were held on April 30 to select the association’s inaugural President, Secretary, and Treasurer. The newly-elected leaders include: Anna Reubish, President Nicole Marie Rytkonen, Secretary Jacinta Tian, Treasurer Six additional students will serve on the executive board, but the …
The Communication Arts Showcase is just a few short days away. The showcase, which occurs at the end of each semester, is a selection of the best student work curated by the course instructors of CA 155, 355, 467, 522, and 659. This semester will see two 30-min short films from the capstone course of …
Welcome to CA 262: Theory and Practice of Argumentation and Debate. Taught by Professor Karma Chávez, this topical course teaches students how to engage with contemporary politics in the United States. During the semester, students will learn how to make the best possible argument in order to defend their position about a particular controversy. Within the …
Not one, not two, but three Communication Arts instructors have been inducted into the University of Wisconsin Teaching Academy. The induction ceremony was held in the Education Building’s Wisconsin Idea Room Thursday evening, April 24th. Professor Lyn Van Swol was inducted as a Teaching Academy Fellow, and teaching assistants Liz Barr and Miranda Kolb were …
I sat down with Communication Arts undergraduate and The Bellhops member Taylor Scott last week to talk about the performance ensemble’s upcoming show, “Honey in my Tea.” The show will be in Promenade Hall of the Overture Center on April 24th at 6PM and April 25th at 9PM in conjunction with the Line Breaks Festival. …
This week I sat down with filmmaker Brandon Colvin to discuss his new film Sabbatical, his process, and the Wisconsin Film Festival, which begins today, Thursday, April 3rd. Brandon Colvin is a graduate student of film in Communication Arts. Describe briefly the synopsis of Sabbatical: It’s about a middle-aged professor who is scheduled to go …
What is the importance of rhetoric? How does language affect our daily lives, ideas, beliefs, and behaviors? These are just some of the questions that the new blog Rhetorically Speaking hopes to explore. The idea for Rhetorically Speaking stemmed from a casual conversation last spring between Whitney Gent and Professor Karma Chávez of Communication Arts, …
The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Amy Sloper to the position of the Head Film Archivist. As the WCFTR Film Archivist, Amy will oversee the Center’s rich collection of films and television episodes, nearly 20,000 titles in all. Her duties will also include teaching one course …
UW-Madison has received the #1 ranking from QS World University Rankings for Communication & Media Studies. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a company that focuses on education and study abroad, releases annual rankings for universities around the world, as well as rankings by subject. They use a methodology that incorporates academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per paper …