TV Channel 3, Point Loma Nazarene University
Department of Communication and Theatre
Contact: Sherene Ebrahimi, Marketing & Promotions Manager
Cell Phone: 760-580-5953
Email: sebrahimi100@pointloma.edu
Advisor: Alan Hueth (619) 849-2358
Date: October 13, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PLNU Students Study in London
PLNU students and faculty received a world of knowledge while studying in London this past summer.
Point Loma Nazarene University’s Department of Communication and Theatre’s London Summer 2008 Study Program occurred June 16 to July 18, 2008. Seven PLNU students and two faculty studied and toured England.
The program included field trips to Stratford-upon Avon, Oxford, Bath, Warwick Castle, Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge, and Speaker’s Corner. Students also had two long weekends where they could take trips of their own to nearby countries. The group also met with an advertising executive from McCann-Erickson, who discussed the company’s famous “Priceless” MasterCard advertising campaign and its tactics in advertising in different countries.
The PLNU group also had a once in a lifetime chance to go on a behind the scenes tour of the House of Parliament.
The highlights from this year’s program included the creation of a new documentary program series called Journeys. The series features each individual student’s journey in London, and includes short documentaries on topics ranging from the Holocaust to spiritual apathy. Each documentary illustrates the students’ journey toward learning and understanding something that they did not understand before their trip. The series is currently in post production and will soon air on PLNU’s Channel 3: You Channel campus television station.
Professors of Communication, Dr. Alan Hueth and Dr. Skip Rutledge, taught the courses such as the British Experience, Documentary and Propaganda, and Persuasion among others. This was Dr. Hueth’s second time leading the program with PLNU and his sixth trip with a college group. Dr. Hueth said that his greatest joy is watching the students encounter a different culture and how they learn and struggle with that.
“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,” said Hueth.
The London Summer Study Program occurs every two years in the Communication Department, but is open to all students across campus. For more information about the program, visit http://www.pointloma.edu/CommunicationTheatre/London.htm.