The Communication Studies Department is very pleased to announce our Inaugural Speaker Series Event featuring Professor Gerry Philipsen from the University of Washington. Dr. Philipsen’s talk, entitled “Finding One’s Feet in Unfamiliar Cultural Terrain” will address the questions of what is cultural diversity and how do we make sense of the variety of cultures we encounter on a daily basis? The event will take place this Wednesday, March 26th, 5:00-6:30 pm in the Berman Room of Fromm Hall. This event is open to the USF community, and we especially encourage all of our Communication Studies majors to attend.

Professor Gerry Philipsen

Dr. Philipsen is a renowned communication studies scholar who specializes in ethnography and is well-known for developing “speech codes theory” and for his classic “Teamsterville” ethnographic study (an award-winning article read by many of our Communication and Culture students). Dr. Philipsen received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1972 and has been a professor at the University of Washington for over thirty-four years. We are honored to feature him as the inaugural speaker in our Communication Studies Speaker Series.

It’s that time of the semester again, time for our bi-annual Lambda Pi Eta PIE DAY fundraiser! Da da da-ah! Our Lambda Pi Eta  members will be selling slices of pie to benefit our honors society. Lambda Pi Eta hosts many events every semester that benefit all of our Communication Studies majors (Pizza with the Profs, Pizza with the Pros, Career Night, Alumni Speaker Night, I could go on…) so we are hoping that you will come out and support us. The slices of pie are ver-r-y reasonably priced at $2-3 per slice for homemade pie!

Join us this Thursday March 20th, 11:30-12:30 in Gleeson Plaza! You don’t want to be caught without your “I ate pie with Lambda Pi Eta” sticker, do you? Do you?

We’re excited to host the first ever Communication Studies Alumni Happy Hour coming up on Friday February 21st, 5:00-7:00 pm at Palomino Restaurant in San Francisco! Please stop by to catch up with other COMS alums! The faculty will be there to buy you the first round… of appetizers! (There was no way we could get approval to buy you drinks!). Please pass on the word and invite other alums! We are hoping to make this an annual event and a fun way to catch up with all of our wonderful alums!

Check out more information about the event here:

All of you fellow USFers with a sweet tooth (sweet teeth?) rejoice! Why? Tomorrow is PIE DAY, our twice yearly event when Lambda Pi Eta members sell slices of homemade pies as a fundraiser for our club. Tomorrow during deadhour (11:45-12:45) our Lambda Pi Eta members will be in Lo Schiavo Plaza awaiting your sweet teeth!

This year, a portion of our proceeds will be donated to help with the relief efforts for Typhoon Haiyan. As you already know, this was a terrible typhoon that hit the Philippines recently. We have many students with family and friends in the Philippines who need our help, so please come by and buy a slice of pie to help!

Don’t you want to be able to say “I ate a pie with Lambda Pi Eta!”? We hope to see you there!

One of the most frequent questions faculty in our major hear is “What can I do with a Communication Studies major?” Well, that and “Will this be on the exam?” This Wednesday we have eight alums who will be on campus to help answer that very question!  (The first one). We are hosting our 6th Annual Communication Studies Career Night! The event will take place in ED 203 from 6:30-8:30 pm. Our alums will talk about their career paths and how they use their COMS degree in their current positions. Get the inside scoop on what you should be doing while you are here to best position yourself for a job after graduation. It is a great opportunity to network with our alumni and with other majors!

Here is our lineup for Wednesday’s event:

Lindsay Sutherland, ’09

DPEM

Alyssa Micciche, ’13

Clari

Ali Wasserman, ’11

Dome Construction

Nikka Suleymanova, ’13

Mondo

Ryan Lennox, ’12

UNIT9

Daniel Sherman, ’11

Restoration Hardware

Sarah Manning, ’12

ServiceNow

Emma Gallagher, ’11

ClearSlide

The event is open to all Communication Studies majors and is sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies and Lambda Pi Eta. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!