Public speaking is a crucial skill for any professional, and Penn State Scranton’s Corporate Communication 405: Strategic Speaking course is helping students hone this essential skill. This unique class emphasizes large-group communication in a professional setting and is designed to make students comfortable speaking in front of an unfamiliar audience.
Students from Penn State Scranton’s medieval literature class recently traveled to The Cloisters, a museum dedicated to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages, for an immersive learning experience that helped connect the class’ studies with real-world experiences through art and history.
Penn State Scranton’s science department is hosting a special welcome event on Tuesday, Oct. 4 that will include a scavenger hunt on the third floor of the Dawson Building.
Every summer, Penn State Scranton offers the Pathway to Success: Summer Start (PaSSS) program, which is specifically for Commonwealth Campuses and designed to support students to make an early transition to Penn State University. Students get the tools and resources needed to increase the likelihood that they will graduate and earn their Penn State degree on time, or even early in some cases, with less loan debt.
Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging Robert Torres visited Penn State Scranton Friday to announce the expansion of the department’s Intergenerational University Connections Program, which aims to benefit seniors, as well as the students enrolled in the campus' Human Development and Family Studies and Psychology programs. While there, he met with faculty and students already involved in the program, which was established by the PA Department of Aging to connect college students with senior citizens at risk for the deleterious impact of social isolation on their health and well-being, with the goal of reducing the negative impact of social isolation and improving daily life of the participants. Penn State Scranton is the first university in northeast Pennsylvania to participate.
Penn State Scranton has partnered with Leadership Lackawanna to offer a new program for high school juniors and seniors in Lackawanna County called Leadership U, which offers a general education, three-credit college course — CAS 100A: Effective Speech.
Thanks to a generous gift from the Keystone Sanitary Landfill and the DeNaples family, Penn State Scranton’s Center for Business Development and Community Outreach will be coordinating a course for high school juniors and seniors that is part of a program focusing on environmental studies at the campus, as well as offering a youth summer camp program for younger children.
A new bachelor of science degree in information technology will be offered beginning in the fall 2021 semester. The degree will replace the existing bachelor of science degree in information sciences and technology, which will be phased out over the next four years.
Penn State Scranton Associate Professor of English Kelley Wagers set out to create an innovative course that gives students across the academic spectrum the opportunity to explore and practice compassionate communication during a health crisis. During the fall semester, Wagers taught Communicating Care, an integrative general education course she designed with input from a medical ethics expert at Penn State College of Medicine and some campus colleagues.
Following his trip last summer to Kazakhstan, Professor of Information Sciences and Technology Alan Peslak and a contingent of University representatives traveled to New Zealand this past winter to engage in a development workshop with faculty members from the University of Auckland.
