The usual path undergraduates took in the communication department was to dabble in radio for a few years – maybe just one, and maybe just a semester to get it over with – and then get involved in the television side of things for the rest of their time on campus. Because, I guess, the faculty thought everyone wanted to be
on television. This was hardly true but it was hard to win an argument against the set-in-stone curriculum.
To drive this home was the senior-level advanced television production class where students had to not just come up with their own episodic television program but script it, record it, and – again, because faculty thought everyone wanted to be
on television – host it.
