About CDAE 4240 A
Students work with non-profit and municipal community partners to develop professional level communications strategies and materials. Students complete their professional public communication portfolios and resumes. Prerequisites: Senior standing; CDAE 1240, CDAE 1150, and CDAE 2210 or CDAE 2200.
Notes
COM majors with Senior Standing; Prereqs CDAE 1240, CDAE 1150, and CDAE 2210 or CDAE 2200
Section Description
Public Communication seniors have taken many courses to learn how to create messages that help communities, both domestic and international, identify real-world problems, develop innovative solutions, and support positive social change. By successfully completing service-learning projects and real-world internships, PCOM seniors have gained real-world experience and materials for their professional portfolio.
The CDAE faculty believe that our PCOM graduates have the communication skills and sensibilities needed to be relevant, responsible, and creative communicators in their communities. This PCOM Capstone is the CDAE faculty’s way of supporting seniors as they launch their PCOM careers.
The Public Communication Capstone is a service-learning course that pairs groups of students (Communication Action Teams- "CATs") with non-profit and municipal community partners to develop professional-level integrated communication strategies and materials. Using the skills developed throughout their tenure at UVM, students use the real-world projects to demonstrate their competencies in leadership and teamwork, research, evaluation, written and visual communication, technology, event planning, fundraising, social marketing, and media literacy. This course provides authentic communication experiences and prepares students for future careers in public communication, all while meeting the needs of the community partners.
Learning Objectives:
1. To prepare students for careers in public communication through authentic, integrated real-world communication experience.
• Use project management skills by taking a project from concept through planning to implementation.
• Demonstrate professionalism, compassion, creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, planning, informed decision-making, teamwork, and presentation skills.
• Tailor a communication strategy to meet a partner’s needs.
• Create professional-level communication deliverables.
2. To build collaboration and communication skills for a successful transition to the work force.
• Interact professionally with community partners.
• Identify and overcome barriers to project development.
• Identify and work with personal and professional strengths and weaknesses.
• Work productively in a group setting.
• To provide a forum for students to demonstrate their public communication competencies.
• Create portfolio items through the service-learning project.
• Develop a unique mission- or personality-based professional brand.
• Communicate their unique professional brand in resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile.
Section Expectation
+Weekly Attendance Required - Graded
+Some meetings with team & client outside of class required - times and dates to be determined with teammates and client
Evaluation
+Intensive Semester-long, Group Service Learning Project
+Personal Job Application Materials
+Weekly Attendance Required - Graded
+Professionalism, Teammate & with Client - Graded
+Some meetings with team & client outside of class required - times and dates to be determined with teammates and client
Important Dates
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