Arielle Emmett, Ph.D., Accepts Post to teach for University of Colorado Denver at the International College of Beijing, China.
Beijing, China, August 2011. After graduating from University of Maryland in May 2011 with her doctorate in Journalism & Public Communication, Arielle Emmett has accepted a teaching position in Communications and Culture at the International College of Beijing (ICB), China. She will commence her teaching duties in September 2011. Her courses will include Fundamentals of Mass Communication, Technical Communication, Science & Health Writing, and Visual Communications /Interactive Story Telling. Dr. Emmett will also teach film and TV production in the Spring Semester and mentor students through internships.
ICB is a joint education program between the University of Colorado Denver (UC Denver) in Denver, Colorado, USA, and China Agricultural University (CAU) in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. The partnership, formed in 1994, was one of the first of its kind approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education. ICB is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and enjoys reputation as a robust undergraduate academic program. At ICB, students earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Denver with a major in either economics or communication. Courses are taught in English by UC Denver faculty on the China Agricultural University campus in Beijing, now recognized as one among the top twenty research universities in the People’s Republic of China. Beijing students have an opportunity to study both in China and in the downtown Denver campus and U.S. students may chose to study in Beijing as well, fostering a global classroom experience.
Dr. Emmett, who lived in Taiwan and worked for Newsweek International following her undergraduate years at University of Michigan, is joining a distinguished U-C Denver international faculty. She plans to continue her visual communication research in China along with free lance journalism and pursuit of even better Mandarin Chinese language.
“Returning to China after all these years is truly the culmination of years of hoping and wishing,” Emmett said. “In China I get to live a dream in a historic and government capital that will surely become the center of the Pacific Century. I hope to give back now to young international students just the way so many Chinese family and friends gave to me in my student years in Taiwan.”
Last October, 2010, Emmett gave photojournalism lectures and observed classes taught at China’s Shantou University, which has an excellent international journalism program.
Beginning fall, 2011, Dr. Emmett will be headquartered at International College of Beijing, one of 18 institutions at China Agricultural University located in the Haidian district north of downtown Beijing. ICB is a thirty-minute ride from downtown Beijing, Beijing International Airport and major cultural centers such as Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Summer Palace.
Emmett welcomes all family, friends, and colleagues to correspond and visit. She can be reached via email at aemmettphd@gmail.com.
