Activities

Activities

Student Communication Club

The Communication Club is a student run organization promoting the Communication department and the student interests in the department. The specific activities of COMM Club vary from year to year depending on who is involved, but it gives you a chance to initiate and carry out projects in which you're interested. In addition to the organization's officers, the COMM Club also elects student representatives to the department's Executive Committee. Those representatives attend the weekly faculty meetings and each has a vote equal to that of any other member of the committee. Active membership in the COMM Club helps you establish a record of initiative and achievement and gives you the chance to influence what is done in the department.

All Communication majors and minors are eligible for membership in the Communication Club. All you have to do is start showing up to the meetings. The faculty advisor for COMM Club is Maxwell Schnurer.

Communication Club Officers Fall 2016

President:
Tania Mejia
tmm608@humboldt.edu

Vice-President:
Jacob Morrison
jkm432@humboldt.edu

Executive Committee Member:
Elizabeth Phillips
ep66@humboldt.edu

Executive Committee Member:
Kyra Vollger
kav279@humboldt.edu

Morale Chair
Open

Treasurer
Open

Secretary
Open

Social Media Coordinator
Open

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Intercollegiate Speech & Debate

Intercollegiate Speech & Debate is an activity intended to help you improve your public communication skills through competition in intercollegiate speech tournaments or through the presentation of speeches in public settings. With the help of coaches you will create and revise presentations so you can successfully participate and improve. Most members of the Intercollegiate Speech & Debate team travel to other schools to compete in three types of events: public speaking events, oral interpretation events, and debate. more on Intercollegiate Speech & Debate »

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Lambda Pi Eta

Lambda Pi Eta is a national honorary society for Communication majors. Its purpose is "(a) to recognize, foster and reward outstanding scholastic achievement in communication studies; (b) to stimulate interest in the field of communication, (c) to promote and encourage professional development among communication majors; (d) to provide an opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas in the field of communication; (e) to establish and maintain closer relationships and mutual understanding between speech communication studies faculty and students; and (f) to explore options for graduate education in communication studies." Cal Poly Humboldt is home to the Delta Pi chapter.

Candidates for membership in Lambda Pi Eta are nominated by Communication faculty. To be eligible for membership in Lambda Pi Eta a student must have completed 60 units, have a minimum cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 for all courses taken, be in the upper 35% of his or her academic class, have a GPA for all Speech Communication courses of at least 3.25, have completed 12 units of Speech Communication courses, and currently be enrolled as a full-time student. In addition, students should display commitment to the field of Communication, and exhibit high standards of personal and professional character.

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Undergraduate Instructional Assistants

Undergraduate Instructional Assistants are advanced students who assist in the instruction of a Communication course under the supervision of the course instructor. Depending on who their supervising instructor is UIAs may help design the course, deliver lectures, and grade assignments. Being a UIA helps you demonstrate your ability to act in a leadership role while you learn to supervise others.

The experience of being a UIA is very helpful for students who want to get a teaching assistantship when they go to graduate school, as well as for students who anticipate being in professional situations where they will instruct others. To become a UIA you must find a professor who is willing to be your supervising instructor. Then contact the department chair to get the application information needed to receive department approval to be a UIA. If you receive such approval you must also enroll in SC 495: Field Experience, under the supervising instructor's name.

Download the Undergraduate Instructional Assistant Contract (doc)

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Tutoring

Basic course tutoring is done by students who have successfully completed Fundamentals of Speech Communication, Critical Thinking and Small Groups, Introduction to Argumentation, or Critical Listening and Thinking. Tutors work one-on-one with students from those classes who want help learning the concepts, studying for exams, or preparing speaking assignments. more on tutoring »

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Field Experience

Field experience involves working off campus in an organization, putting your knowledge of communication to work. You might work in a local nonprofit organization, a public relations firm, in the public relations department of larger organization, in a volunteer organization, in a government agency, or some other organization. Field experience gives you the opportunity to both put your knowledge to work and to learn more about the way communication works in the real world.

To do a field experience you need to find a professor who will supervise your experience and a place that will accept you as a full-time or part-time intern. You will negotiate with the organization what your duties and responsibilities will be and you will negotiate with the instructor what you will need to do to receive credit. You will also need to sign up for SC 495: Field Experience.

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Academic Conferences

Academic conferences allow you the opportunity to extend the work you do in class and present it to other students and professors from other universities. Since only outstanding research is selected for the conferences, presenting at the conferences demonstrates your work is significantly better than that done by most undergraduate students.

Each year there are two conferences Humboldt students might attend. CSU-Fresno is the host for a conference emphasizing undergraduate social scientific research in the discipline and CSU-Hayward is the host for a conference emphasizing rhetorical criticism. In addition, when the National Communication Association or the regional Western Speech Communication Association conventions are nearby you could attend them. There are also student research conferences sponsored by the California State University system and by colleges and universities in other states.

If you're interested in attending any of the conferences discuss the possibility with a faculty member willing to supervise your research.

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