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SJSU Forensics Team Keeps Up Winning Record @ Santa Rosa

photo of SJSU forensics team

The SJSU Forensics Team members and their awards at the October 2012 Santa Rosa Tournament.

The SJSU Forensics Team kept up its winning record yesterday at the tournament in Santa Rosa. Forensics Director Genelle Austin-Lett reported these impressive results:

Katrina Swanson 1st in Open Communication Analysis, 1st in Open Impromptu, and 2nd in Open Extemp

Matt Zweier 2nd Open Impromptu

Chantel Steburg and Katelin Zweifel-Korzuchin  1st in Novice duo

Onofre Galvez 3rd in Novice poetry (first time competing at a speech and debate tournament!)

Ryan Gallagher  4th in Novice prose and 6th in Open extemp

David Jacques  3rd in novice impromptu

Avesta Sabetian  3rd in Open extemp

SJSU Team 2nd place overall sweeps of 4 yr schools

Congratulations to the team and the SJSU Forensics coaches!!

SJSU Forensics Team Debates in Santa Rosa

Genelle Austin-Lett, SJSU Forensics Director, reported that the award-winning SJSU Forensics Team earned multiple trophies yesterday at the Santa Rosa Tournament. Chantel Steburg and Katelin Zweifel-Korzuchin competed in their first debate tournament as novices. Katelin was 4th novice speaker and Chantel was 8th novice speaker.

David Jacques‘ partner couldn’t make it (his professor wouldn’t let him take his mid-term early) so David was paired with a student from City College of San Francisco. The two took a silver medal and David was 2nd place novice speaker.

In open Katrina Swanson was 2nd place speaker

The open team of Matt Zweier and Avesta Sabetian took a silver.  This was their first time as partners and Matt was 1st place speaker and Avesta was 5th.

The entire squad was 2nd place sweeps in debate. Congratulations to our winning debaters!!

Tentative W13 Schedule of Classes

Complete a COMM class in 13 days over winter break, January 2-18!

Below is the tentative Winter 2013  schedule of classes for Communication Studies. SJSU’s International and Extended Studies, which manages Winter session, should have more information about how to register soon.

course days time room instructor
COMM 20 MTWRF 0900-1155 HGH 225 Wood
COMM 20 MTWRF 1000-1255 HGH 223 Terry
COMM 20 MTWRF 1300-1555 HGH 225 Fassett
COMM 40 MTWRF 1000-1255 CL 243 Lim
COMM 41 MTWRF 1000-1255 HGH 219 Sequeira
COMM 144F online online online Coopman, S

COMM Dept Featured at 21st Century Teaching Symposium

The Communication Studies Department’s pilot program for COMM 20, Public Speaking, will be featured during a panel discussion at the upcoming symposium, “21st Century Teaching: Opportunities and Incentives at SJSU,” Monday, Sept 24, MLK Library, 225/7, 8:30 am-1:30 pm. The pilot program, which will start in Spring 2013, incorporates online and in-person components designed to better meet student learning objectives in the public speaking course.

COMM Prof’s Play to Open in Boston

Professor Matthew Spangler’s play, The Kite Runner, opens at the New Repertory Theatre in Boston next week. The play, adapted from Khaled Hosseini’s highly-acclaimed 2003 novel about an Afghan boy and his father who flee Afghanistan first for Pakistan and then to Fremont, California. In a recent article in Boston.com, Professor Spangler had this to say about his play:

“One thing I came to really love about this book as I was writing this play was that it has a wonderful degree of humanity, and it’s very unapologetic about that,” playwright Matthew Spangler says by phone from California. “There’s hardly a cynical beat in the book or in the play, and I thought it was worthwhile to tell that story in a time of deep cynicism.”

The play’s world premiere was at the San Jose Repertory Theatre in 2009.