The Department of Communication Studies at the University of Cape Coast has received assurance that the Department will soon receive support that will enable it expand equipment they need for practical work.
According to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah, the future of the faculty lies much in the hands of the Department of Communication Studies as the department houses the majority of the students the faculty is made up of.
Meanwhile, he says it is worrying if students of the Department studying journalism and offering media-related courses are not having any equipment to work with.
“If you are a student of Communication studies, you are doing Journalism, you are doing media studies, and you don’t even have any equipment to work with; you don’t have any studio; you don’t have any recording equipment and all that. As a department, then it must be worrying,” he emphasized.
Speaking at the launch of the maiden Newsletter of the Department of Communication, “The Dew.” Professor Sarfo Sarfo-Kantanka thus pledged to aid the leadership of the Department to acquire the needed equipment so the Department can function properly.
“I can assure you that we will do whatever we can for this department to have the necessary equipment so that our students can benefit from the courses they do,” he added.
Prof. Sarfo Sarfo-Kantanka said it is hoped “that by the time I leave office as the Dean of the faculty, we would have acquired at least the basic equipment that will help the department to function.”
He said his office has already begun with the Department of Theatre and Film Studies where they are trying to advance some money to them to start acquiring certain pieces of equipment.
Their next target he noted will be to provide some more pieces of equipment to the Department of Music and Dance.
Prof. Sarfo-Kantanka indicated that as the majority of students are interested in studying at the Department of Communication Studies, they ought to also make the department stronger and having the needed equipment is the way to go.
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