Point Loma Nazarene University
Contact: Heather Michel – TV Channel 3
Department of Communication and Theatre
Advisor: Alan Hueth (619)-849-2358 Date: March 7, 2008
Written by COM425 TV Workshop students
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Point Loma Nazarene University’s Department of Communication and Theatre’s London Summer 2008 Study Program will occur June 16 to July 18, 2008 this coming summer. Eight PLNU students and two faculty will be studying and touring England.
The highlights to this year’s program includes the creation of a new film documentary series for PLNU’s “Channel 3: Your Channel” campus cable TV station. The series is called Journeys, which will feature student’s journeying to London and producing short documentaries on a topic of their choice that illustrates their journey toward learning and understanding something that they did not understand before their trip.
The program will also include the usual field trips, including Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford, Bath, Warwick Castle, Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge, Speaker’s Corner, and others. Students will also be field tripping and meeting with an advertising executive from McCann-Erickson, who will be talking about their famed “Priceless” MasterCard ad campaign, and a behind-the-scenes tour and meeting with the Whip-Speaker of the House of Commons for the Labor Party, Lord Leslie Griffiths. Lord Griffiths will also enabling the students to attend a Parliamentary debate session.
The two professors leading the program this summer are Dr. Alan C. Hueth, Professor of Communication and London Studies 2008 Program Director. He will be team-teaching the mandatory course, The British Experience, with Dr. Skip Rutledge, the director of PLNU’s multi-award-winning speech and debate team. The British Experience course will cover a wide variety of topics about British culture and society. This includes theatre, art, music, journalism, pop culture, public communication, and religious and political customs.
Three elective courses are being offered, and they include Dr. Hueth’s Documentary and Propaganda course, which will include studying documentary and propaganda forms (including advertising, TV and film programs) from the late 1890’s to the present. As a part of the course, students will also be producing short documentaries for the new Journeys documentary film series.
Dr. Rutledge will be teaching the Persuasion and Advanced Persuasion-British Persuasion & Rhetoric courses. The advanced course will include the study of British orators and rhetoric.
The program includes two long weekends in which students will have the opportunity to travel on their own.
It is Dr. Hueth’s hope that students will bring back a heightened understanding of the subjects that they are studying, along with an appreciation for other cultures and a deeper appreciation of living in America.
“The best part of our London study program is how students and faculty that I take are changed in such positive ways—in both their perspective and outlook of the world and other cultures, but also their professional preparation. It’s why I do this,” Hueth said.