CMA Lab
Our state-of-the-art television studio lets you shoot, edit and produce your own original video content.
Future leaders in the field of communications need a variety of skills to compete. Our program offers you the opportunity to learn and practice production, development, design and more.
Writing, researching, interviewing and editing across media platforms remain at the heart of the communication arts program. Courses are taught in computer labs and a new broadcast studio.
Our multidisciplinary program is the perfect springboard for careers in journalism, graphic design, marketing, public relations, and even law and government. Many students complete double majors, combining communication arts with foreign languages, business administration, psychology, history or English.
You will learn alongside faculty who have extensive industry experience in their fields. In addition, their professional backgrounds and connections enable them to provide you with outstanding guidance and advising.
All students are required to complete an internship, giving you the opportunity to expand on your classroom learning with hands-on, real-world experience. Our location near Baltimore and Washington, D.C., gives you a wide array of internship opportunities. Our students have completed internships at National Geographic, the Office of the Governor (Maryland), Sirius XM Radio, WBAL-TV, Frederick Magazine and the Downtown Frederick Partnership.
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Our state-of-the-art television studio lets you shoot, edit and produce your own original video content.
Join Blazer Radio, the Blue & Grey student newspaper, the Hood College Broadcasting team or other student-led organizations on campus.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 14 percent growth for media and communications occupations by 2030, faster than the national average.
Professor of English
High school students with a passion for journalism gain firsthand knowledge from Hood faculty.
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, the Center for Global Studies at Hood College presented a faculty roundtable discussion- “Activism and Dissent” - on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. Roundtable panelists included Elizabeth Atwood, Ph.D., Department of Communication Arts, Corey Campion, Ph.D., Department of History, and Ahmed Salem, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.