Alexander Hiland

Alexander Hiland Ph.D is a Senior Lecturer in Communication & Media. After earning his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 2017 he served as the Assistant Director of Debate at James Madison University and the Director of Forensics (speech and debate) at Texas Tech University. Dr. Hiland comes to RPI with 14 years of experience coaching students in competitive public speaking events and 11 years of teaching at the collegiate level. In the 2022-2023 Academic Year Dr. Hiland will be teaching Public Speaking and Communication Theory & Practice.

Andrew Fitzgerald

Andy Fitzgerald is an Assistant Professor of Communication & Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research and teaching expertise include critical communication and cultural studies, technology and audience studies, media theory, and global media ethics. Fitzgerald is currently starting a lab at RPI to use the "Screenomics" screen-capture research framework that collects screenshots of participants devices every few seconds for longitudinal studies to conduct critical digital audience and mobile user studies.

Program Overview

The minor in Strategic Communication is designed to train versatile, critical, and self-possessed communicators. Students who successfully complete this minor will demonstrate the ability to make focused, audience-appropriate arguments and communicate effectively across diverse rhetorical, sociocultural, and disciplinary contexts.

Program Overview

This minor examines different forms of expression and their cultural contexts in a variety of media, including film, television, photography, and new media. Its components will enhance creative and critical thinking, communication practices, and awareness of cultural and individual identities.

Program Overview

This minor covers communication, interaction, and information design theory and practice to prepare students for creating different forms of interactive, multimedia communication, and data representation.

 

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Study graphic design through the integration of theory and practice in print and digital media. Use creative and critical thinking to solve visual communication problems and reach target audiences with words, symbols, and images.

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The Writing minor offers students the opportunity to write in a variety of genres, media, and contexts. They may choose from regularly offered courses in strategic, creative, or academic writing.

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The Literature and Creative Writing minor offers discussion-oriented courses across a range of literary genres and themes, with a choice of emphasis on either literature, creative writing, or both. Students will learn to read and write literary art critically and creatively, with clarity and imagination, and with sensitivity to multi-cultural expressions of diversity.

Program Overview

Integrated with Chinese culture, students will learn all four types of language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). After completing the Chinese Language minor, students will be able to communicate in Chinese at their targeted proficiency levels and think critically and creatively with global and multicultural awareness.

The art of communication is the core of innovation. We take pride in graduating exemplary communicators and engaged citizens who contribute meaningfully to their professions and exert lasting impact on their communities, locally and globally.

Four students participating in a writing assignement

Program Overview

The B.S. program in Communication, Media, and Design (CMD) prepares graduates to communicate creatively across diverse multimedia and multicultural contexts. The program is geared toward students interested in literature, strategic and creative writing, media and communication studies, and graphic, interactive, and mixed-reality design. The curriculum is designed to train versatile and professional communicators across a range of media literacies, genres, and formats.

After Graduation

Graduates of the B.S. program in Communication, Media, and Design have the skills to communicate innovative ideas, work with leading-edge media, and collaborate to produce integrated graphic and textual information geared toward diverse audiences.

Career opportunities include:

  • Graphic and multimedia design
  • Media production
  • Usability engineering
  • Information architecture
  • Instructional and interface design
  • Technical communication
  • Animation
  • Game Design
  • Education
  • Industry Research
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