Public Relations Minor

The public relations minor may be completed by students from any program. This minor will help you to develop a general understanding of the concepts and practices involved with being a public relations practitioner or someone who is responsible for creating and maintaining relationships between an organization and its publics. The minor emphasizes keys skills such as research, writing, project planning, and oral presentations. The minor culminates with a required practicum experience or internship. The minor is especially appropriate for you if you are interested in public relations, community relations, event management, marketing, fundraising, and much more.

Learn more about the Communication Department at Parkside.

PROGRAM CONTACT INFO

Dr. Adrienne Viramontes | viramont@uwp.edu

Jacquelyn Arcy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Jacquelyn Arcy is an Associate Professor of New Media and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication. She has her Ph.D. in Critical Media Studies from the University of Minnesota, and her MA in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati. Her areas of specialization are television studies, digital media and culture, media industries, and feminist media studies.

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Anjuli Brekke, PH.D.

Assistant Professor

Anjuli Joshi Brekke is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Department. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Washington. Her scholarship focuses on the potential and politics of listening and interweaves research from several traditions including rhetorical studies, cultural studies, and sound studies. Her work explores the power and limitations of sharing personal narratives, both online and offline, to facilitate listening across difference. She is currently working on a book project based on an oral history and digital storytelling project she proposed and led to record and share stories of racial discrimination and resistance from the larger Seattle area. She has published multiple works on podcasting, radical listening and race and teaches courses in community-based podcasting and digital storytelling.

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Theresa Castor, PhD

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs; Professor - Communication

Theresa Castor conducts research on organizational decision-making, focusing on crisis and problem situations in meetings and governance groups. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1999 with a PhD in Speech Communication.

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Hilary Rasmussen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Hilary Rasmussen is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication. She has her Ph.D. in Communication with certifications in Rhetorical Leadership and Women's and Gender Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and her MA in Communication with an emphasis in Women’s Historical Rhetoric from Northern Illinois University. Her areas of specialization are argumentation, pedagogy, public relations, social movement and legal discourses, and LGBTQIA+ studies.

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Adrienne Viramontes, Ph.D.

Professor and Department Chair

Adrienne Viramontes is an Associate Professor in the Communication Department and serves as Graduate Director for the Professional Communication Master's program. She holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Purdue University Calumet, and a Ph.D. in Speech Communication from Southern Illinois University. She specializes in identity, intersectionality, qualitative research methods, and Chicana/o history and identities.

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