department of communication

Grant Curtis: UCM alumnus and Hollywood producer

Written by Ryan Sheehan • October 12, 2018

Grant Curtis is a Hollywood producer and filmmaker who was been a part of several major productions. Curtis is a former student, graduating with his Master in Communication degree in 1997. He grew up in...

Upgrades improve UCM broadcast capabilities

Written by Jason Brown • September 27, 2018

Central Missouri’s broadcasting capabilities received a major upgrade this fall in way of a brand new TriCaster, cameras and a 24-foot broadcast trailer. Art Rennels, chair of the school of communication,...

Digital Media Production professors and students work with web series course

Written by Denise Elam • February 15, 2018

A new kind of class is coming to the communication department this fall. COMM 4200, a special topics class, will focus on the creation of a science-fiction anthology web series called “The Computer Lab”...

Busted: Walter Cronkite style

Written by Muleskinner Staff • November 13, 2015

By ANDREA LOPEZ Features Editor (ST. JOSEPH, Mo., digitalBURG) — Another one gets the bust. Leah Wankum, graduate student of mass communications at the University of Central Missouri, was awarded a...