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2015-2016 USC Sumter Bulletin (Archived Copy) 
    
 
  Mar 28, 2024
 
2015-2016 USC Sumter Bulletin (Archived Copy) [Archived Catalog]

College of Information and Communications


Charles Bierbauer, Dean
Andrea Tanner, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Sam Hastings, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director, School of Library and Information Science
Brytnee Leigh, Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance
Cindy Justice, Assistant Dean for Student Services
Nancy Twohey, Assistant to the Dean



Overview

The challenge of 21st-century communications is to combine the information gathering function-research and data bases-with the disciplines of disseminating information-journalism, advertising, public relations, visual communications, and mass communications.

The college’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications is professionally oriented and grounded strongly in the liberal arts. It offers instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Course work is offered in electronic and print journalism, advertising, public relations, visual communications, and mass communications to train students in both the processes and effects of mass communication.

The School of Library and Information Science offers a bachelor’s degree in information science and graduate-level programs that support the development of library and information services as an essential element of cultural enrichment. It provides a professional education for students entering into libraries and information centers in colleges, schools, communities, industries, and businesses.

Together, the schools will also develop a core research base for examining the practices of communications and the teaching of these disciplines. Both schools have long had admirable records of placing their graduates in newsrooms, advertising agencies, libraries, and academic institutions in and beyond South Carolina.

Schools

Click the links below to view programs and courses administered by each school.

School of Journalism and Mass Communications  

School of Library and Information Science