The Department of Communication is co-sponsoring, on Thursday, October 24, a presentation by Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris. Dr. Fitzharris (PhD, Oxford University) is a medical historian who authored the book, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine. Lister—for whom Listerine was later named—persisted against a medical establishment wherein washing …
Author Archives: Dr. Sarah Kornfield
Undergraduate Summer Research: Sarah Bessey and the Evangelical Pulpit
Research is the process of generating knowledge: asking a question that has no answer, and then discovering the answer. Throughout the year, and especially in the summer, Hope’s Communication students engage in research—studying how, why, through what media, and with what effects humans communicate. This summer, Ms. Lindsay Hayes and Dr. Sarah Kornfield collaborated to …
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Unpacking the Complexity of Communication
Humans often communicate multiple meanings or messages in a single communicative act. Adding to this complexity, when humans communicate, we do so through various media, symbols, materials, and designs. The faculty in the Communication Department are wholly committed to helping students understand the complexity of communication and thus enabling students to better analyze the communication …
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Collaborating with Trans-Matic for Student Learning
Students in Prof. Anderson’s Organizational Communication (COMM 330) have been taking annual field trips to Trans-Matic, a deep draw and metal stamping company on the south side of Holland, since 2006. The company gives us a tour of the shop floor, tool room, CAD design room, calibration lab, and office spaces, to show us how …
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Communicating to End Sexual Harassment
This post describes the second in a trilogy of events regarding sexual harassment awareness sponsored by the Department of Communication in partnership with the Women’s and Gender Studies and S.T.E.P programs. This week’s event was a panel discussion about the movie Confirmation, which was screened last week. Highlights Isolde Anderson, an organizational communication scholar, discussed …
Confirmation: A Study in Sexual Harassment Communication
The Communication Department kicked off a trilogy of events this week by screening the film Confirmation. Partnering with Hope’s Women’s & Gender Studies council and the STEP program, the Communication Department is focused on processing the communicative dynamics of sexual harassment and the #MeToo movement. The film is a provocative dramatization of the Clarence Thomas …
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Comm @ National Communication Conference
Each November, Communication faculty from across the country gather together to share research, teaching strategies, and commune together at the National Communication Association’s annual conference. This year the conference is hosted in Salt Lake City, UT, and Dr. Marissa Doshi, Dr. Sarah Kornfield, and Comm Major Emily Wolfe are representing Hope College’s Communication Department! Dr. …
Happy Halloween!
The Communication Department meets regularly to plan upcoming curricula, to organize campus events, and to strategize how best to serve our students, college, discipline, and community. And when our meeting falls on Halloween, there’s candy involved too!
Alumni Updates
Hope College celebrated its Homecoming and Alumni Weekend as One Big Weekend, Oct 19-21, 2018. The Communication Department was delighted to see alumni and reflect on the role that Communication and a Hope College education has played in graduates’ lives. Our graduates are working around the world, fulfilling Hope’s mission of serving and leading in …
Advising Season! What you need to know about Majoring in Communication
During the next two weeks or so, Hope College faculty and students meet together for advising. During advising sessions, faculty and students discuss students’ progress toward their degrees, what courses to register for next semester, and how their Hope College education is preparing students for their futures. Dr. Choonghee Han describes his approach to advising, …
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