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Department Programs

FORENSICS YOUTH PROGRAMS
The California State University, Northridge Communication for Youth Institute (CYI)
Speech and Debate team is a full-service The Communication for Youth program is a
intercollegiate forensics program. The team community outreach, service-learning course
offers competition in the following events: that enables graduate and undergraduate
Cross-examination, team policy debate, students to offer public speaking training to
NPDA Parliamentary team debate, Platform students in grades 5 through 12. Graduates
speaking, including informative, persuasive, and undergraduates receive coaching in:
and communication analysis. Limited Public Speaking, Course Development, Lesson
preparation speaking, including impromptu Planning, Effective Teaching Practices,
and extemporaneous. Oral interpretations, Assessing Student Learning, and Peer
including prose, poetry, duo, and program Evaluations. Communication Studies students
of oral interpretation. Participants receive receive more experience through community PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE (PE)
coaching for competitions from an outreach. Instruction is provided through a Performance Ensemble works in collaboration
extremely talented and well-trained combination of discussion, lecture, activities, to generate, stage, and present original
coaching staff. and workshop formats. This Community performances for a variety of audiences. These
Service Program is facilitated by current part- performances may include original scripts,
time Professor Jennifer Marshall. poetry, prose fiction, nonfiction, and oral
histories. This work is dedicated to cultivating
SYNC LAPD Cadet Program social justice and to creating a safe, inclusive,
More than 500 high school-age youth have and creative space for developing and
been introduced to lifelong public-speaking showcasing student talents. This program is
skills with the help of our students. The SYNC designed as a workshop. Each week students
(Strengthen Youth, Nourishing Communities) work with/around a theme, a performative
Cadet Program – is a service-learning mode or context, and/or a specific
performance project.
partnership between Communication Studies
and the Los Angeles Police Department Cadet
In 2019, the team had 40 students Leadership Academy. The Community Service
compete in 26 tournaments, placing in the Program is facilitated by current part-time
elimination rounds or receiving top-10 Professor Jessica Baty.
speaking honors at 24 of the tournaments.
This included a return to the National Team Building for Youth
Individual Events Tournament — the NCAA Communication Studies 323 Institute – Team
March Madness of public speaking — by Building for Youth is a Community
qualifying two students in four different Engagement Opportunity partnership between
events. This achievement continues the California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
department's streak of qualifying multiple and the Los Angeles Unified School District
students to the tournament for the last (LAUSD). The Community Service program is
seven years. facilitated by current part-time Professor
Joseph Ayala (B.A. Loyola Marymont
University, Communication Studies 1997, M.A.
CSUN, Communication Studies 2010).

Viewers from across the globe joined us digitally on April 23, 24, and 25th as CSUN
Performance Ensemble presented our Spring 2020 show, AMERICA in Three Acts!

In a spectacular performance, CSUN PE students brought together original performances
featuring graphics, poetry, prose, movement and more produced in personal and unique
performative spaces. In "Three Acts," the performers explored the struggle, history,
Read more highlights here: trauma, personal and collective experiences that connect and disconnect us as
https://csun.edu/communicationstudies Americans in the past, present, and future.

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