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9 DEPARTMENTS Art and Art History Communication Studies Interactive Multimedia Journalism and Professional Writing Music MAJORS Art Education Art History Communication Studies Interactive Multimedia Journalism and Professional Writing Music Music Education Music Performance Visual Arts STUDENT ENROLLMENT 795 CLASS OF 2015 AVERAGE STARTING SALARY $ 41,143 TOP EMPLOYERS CBS Comedy Central Major League Baseball McCann Health NBC TerraCycle Trenton Thunder YES Network A NEW HOME FOR JOURNALISM Journalism and Professional Writing, which was approved as a freestanding major in March, has found a new home in the School of Arts and Communication. While the program will continue to maintain close ties with English, the move will offer enhancements, such as open labs and digital resources offered by the interactive multimedia major. JPW students will also have access to the radio/TV/film track in communication studies as well as the TV studio, which is slated to get $80,000 in new camera equipment. A SONG OF SURVIVAL On March 29, TCNJ choir students performed at Lincoln Center's Rose Theatre alongside five high school choirs from Japan who came from the region most affected by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster. The 200+ singers performed Mahler's Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" with the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York. The event was facilitated by Project Hand in Hand, an organization dedicated to supporting the recovery of East Japan through cultural exchange and education. This was the fourth time in five years that TCNJ has partnered with the organization. CARVING OUT THE FUTURE Last year, Chicago tech company Inventables pledged to donate a 3D carving machine to a school in every state in the nation. Through a competitive process, it selected TCNJ as its New Jersey recipient. "The X-Carve is an open source carving machine that is capable of carving objects out of wood, foam, or plastic," said Associate Professor of Interactive Multimedia John Kuiphoff. "Students will be able to fabricate circuit boards, interactive art, guitars, game controllers, sculptural objects, museum kiosks, skateboards—their imagination is the limit." This machine is installed in the school's newly created digital fabrication studio, which will get plenty of use in Kuiphoff 's upcoming "Digital Fabrication" course. Debuting in the fall, students will learn how to design 3D objects on the computer and then transform them into physical objects. DRUMMING UP AN OSCAR "When you reach the 90th 'no,' that voice in your head returns, telling you this isn't right … the one that tells you, 'Maybe I should have listened to my parents and went to law school,'" joked Damien Chazelle, the writer/ director of Academy Award-winning film Whiplash. Yet when Chazelle visited the college in March to conduct a master class for communication studies students, he counseled them to be patient and hold fast to their creative visions. "Be persistent," Chazelle said. "Withstand the 'no's,'" and an Oscar-winning film might just be the result.

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