St. Paul University opens successful Media Communications program to anglophones

Published by on April 5, 2012 | 0 Comment

Dr. Martin Blais, Director of the Social Communications Program at St. Paul University. Photo: Diane Sciaff

Have you ever wanted to work full time and study full time? If you work in the field of communications, you might want to check out the social communications degree at St. Paul University. The program provides education in many of the tools a journalist might use, but is not a journalism program.  It is aimed at people working in communications who need to be able to not only draft press releases, but also put together a brief video or handle a company Facebook site.
Many of the students both work and study full time, using one to support the other. Nearly half of the classes are given in the evenings.

For the past decade the program has only been available in French but this September, the English version will begin.  Dr. Martin Blais, Director of the Social Communication degree, mused that the francophone program has developed its own dynamic over the past decade, partly through the mix of students from Ontario, Quebec, Africa and Haiti and partly from the intimate classes of 10 to 20 students.

It is his hope that the new English program will create its own dynamic.

“I want them to develop their own blend, their own stuff,” Blais said. “I want the students on the English side not to feel that it is a pale copy of the other side.”

Two professors have been hired to teach the English program.

 

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