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HEADLINE: TRU Students Produce Digital Media Kit as Learning Assessment

Subheading: Students in Media and Public Relations class at TRU get hands-on experience building a digital media kit that builds their professional portfolio

DATELINE: Kamloops, BC – September 9, 2020

CONTACT: Joceline Andersen, Assistant Teaching Professor, Communication, Journalism, and New Media Studies, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC jandersen@tru.ca

ABOUT THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY

  • a public open-learning postsecondary institution situated on unceded and traditional Secwepemc territory in Kamloops, BC
  • committed to indigenization of the TRU curriculum across 9 faculties
  • the Department of Communication, Journalism, and New Media offers a Bachelor of Arts, Major in Communication and Public Relations

STUDENTS

  • over 20,000 students enrolled online and on-campus at TRU
  • students from over 100 different countries

GETTING EXPERIENCE

  • TRU embraces the digital workplace with online learning assignments that produce real world work product
  • Media and Public Relations is the introductory course in the Public Relations Stream

GOING DIGITAL

  • digital media kits and online media centres are used by companies like Adidas, Patagonia, and Starbucks
  • TRU also uses an online Media Room created by the Marketing and Communications department, where it posts press releases, a facts and figures page, and photos and videos
  • according to Statistics Canada, 26% of graduates with a Bachelors degree spent up more than 20 hours online in 2018, including working hours

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