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Muhammad teaches Television Production, film study
August 23, 2004 | |||||
KOKOMO, Ind.—Drawing from her experiences as a television studio manager and broadcast engineer, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts Fatimah N. Muhammad, Ph.D., looks forward to teaching Television Production at IU Kokomo this fall. “I enjoy seeing students visualize their ideas,” she said. “I also get a charge from the production process. It has its own special energy—a balance between planned, choreographed steps and on-the-spot improvisation.”
Muhammad is also teaching Genre Study in Film and Introduction to Mass Communication. She covered these subjects, as well as screenwriting, film history and mass media’s effects on society and popular culture, while a teaching assistant and instructor at Northwestern University and an adjunct professor at Dominican University in River Forest. Muhammad has also worked as an editor of financial data for Morningstar, Inc. She earned her doctorate and master’s degree in radio/TV/film studies at Northwestern University in 2003 and 1994, respectively. For the past three years, Muhammad served as a program mentor in job training and career counseling for Sullivan House Alternative High School in Chicago. Earlier, she coordinated Sullivan House’s Teen REACH After School program, developing academic, cultural, and recreational activities for middle and secondary students. Muhammad is interested in researching the ways mass media package and market their services to particular audiences. “I see interesting patterns of people grouping or typing, as well as reflections of socio-political, technological and economic contours at historical points,” she said. Muhammad sees a particularly rich field of study in the dynamics between hip-hop musicians, their promoters, and their fans. Her doctoral dissertation reviewed the hip-hop culture’s aesthetics and history, its media products, and black women’s roles in it as cultural subjects and as audience. “It included a focus group study of how all these factors contribute to young black women’s self-identity,” she said. “Students at the alternative high school where I worked were study participants.” The lifelong Chicago resident, Muhammad has a 3-year-old daughter, June, who “teaches me something new about myself and life every day,” Muhammad said. For more information on communications degree programs at IU Kokomo, contact the School of Arts and Sciences at www.iuk.edu/ACADEMICS/artsci or call (765) 455-9381.
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