Comm Connection 2005: Character, Calling, & Careers

Monday Feb. 14th

7:00 p.m. Finding Your Mission

Snothers Theatre David Leeson is a photographer for the Dallas Morning News. He has covered both Gulf Wars and won the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism.

Seaver College Distinguished Lecture Series

Wednesday Feb. 16th

11:00 a.m. Your Best Face Forward

CCB 140 Professors Debbie Wideroe and Wynn Allen, outstanding professionals in advertising and organizational consulting, share secrets of making good impressions in interviews and other professional contacts.

12:00 p.m. Answering God's Call

Convo Credit!
CCB 100 Minister Todd Bouldin has taught, written speeches and advised congressmen and a vice president. An undergraduate communication major, he tells his vocation story.

2:00 p.m. Journalism at a Christian College

CCB 100 What's the role of a student newspaper on a Christian campus? Provost Darryl Tippens, Graphic Editor Joann Groff and Journalism Professor Michael Murrie

Thursday Feb. 17th

9:00 a.m. Spiritual Film

CCB 100 Can spiritual film be a genre that inspires? Writer/Director/Editor, Geno Andrews screens his film JillianÕs Vantage, winner of the Best of Show award at the 2004 Damah Film Festival.

10:00 a.m. Negotiation and Mediation

CCB 257 Jim Stott, Assistant Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution

12:00 p.m. Media and Culture Documentary Screening

CCB 140 Graduate Student Tina Worawongs screens her thesis project about how media pass culture to second generation immigrants.

1:00 p.m. Legends of Television

CCB 140 Biographical profiles of well-known television producers David Hill, Marcy Carsey, Don Ohlmeyer and Dick Wolf produced by Pepperdine Telecommunication Students.

2:00 p.m. Faith and Politics

Convo Credit!
CCB 100 Shaun Casey, a professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary writes about presidents and religion. HeÕs been interviewed by national media about the topic and the Iraq war. He also advised John KerryÕs 2004 election campaign.

4:00 p.m. Online Advertising Media Research

CCB 100 Howard Owens, New Media Director for the Ventura County Star newspaper

Friday Feb. 18th

9:00 a.m. Media Literacy

CCB 100 What do we as consumers of media need to learn and teach others? Tessa Jolls, President and CEO of Center for Media Literacy

10:00 a.m. Public Opinion and the Moral Vote

CCB 100 Shaun Casey, religion advisor to the John Kerry 2004 Presidential Campaign, Todd Bouldin, minister and speech writer, and Robert Kaufman, professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, discuss the perception of faith in the 2004 presidential election

Submitted 02-10-2005

MALIBU, CA