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Education Outside the Classroom

CCI offers multiple and diverse hands-on experiences for students to build an inclusive community fueled by the Volunteer spirit. From joining professional organizations to working at one of our student-run media outlets, there is a home for everyone.

Adam Brown Social Media Command Center

The ABSMCC provides the College of Communication & Information faculty, staff and students free access to Spinklr, the same leading technology that Fortune 100 companies worldwide use to publish, engage and analyze their social media marketing activities.

ABSMCC

Career Development

CCI’s Career Development not only provides students with personalized, industry-relevant Career Development content, programs, tools and coaching to discover and launch a career in communications and information fields, but also connects students with internships and other professional opportunities.

Career Development

Land Grant Films

Land Grant Films provides students with real-world experience in documentary storytelling while providing local non-profit organizations with videos assets that can be used to raise awareness and funds.

Land Grant Films

Message Effects Lab

The Message Effects Lab is an Adaptable lab space to support a wide range of user and behavioral research to enable students and faculty to study the effectiveness of messages.

Message Effects Lab

Scoop Magazine

Students have the opportunity to work on various publication projects at the college, such as Scoop Magazine, which is created by students and faculty, or the student-run Daily Beacon campus newspaper.

Scoop Magazine

Scripps Convergence Lab

Scripps Convergence Lab, 402 Communications Building, provides communication and information students with a transformative facility for creating, writing, and producing a variety of projects to prepare themselves for successful careers as working professionals.

Scripps Convergence Lab

Student

Media

Student Media includes various publications and media work that allows students to get valuable experience in the field. These include The Daily Beacon, Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine, Lumos Media Services and  feminist magazine Ablaze.

Student Media

Student Organizations

Our schools offer organizations and clubs to allow students to network, socialize, and work with other students, alumni, and professionals from the field.

Student Organizations

User eXperience

Lab (UXL)

The UXL supports interdisciplinary research by faculty, graduate students, and other researchers. The lab has tools designed to explore users’ experiences with technology by making accurate, empirical measurements as users perform tasks on a product or system.

UXL

WUTK Volunteer Radio

WUTK-FM 90.3 “The Rock” is an independent, non-commercial college radio station owned by the University of Tennessee (UT) and operated by the School of Journalism and Electronic Media. All music, news, and sports shows are student produced.

WUTK

Student Experience Stories

  • TPA Sponsors Five JEM Students to Attend Annual ConventionMarch 14, 2023
  • Co-President Trio Leads Lambda Pi Eta in its 30th Year at CCIMarch 9, 2023
  • Senior Avery Urquhart’s Internship Took Her to Super Bowl WeekFebruary 22, 2023

College of Communication and Information

302 Communication & Information Building
1345 Circle Park Drive Knoxville, TN 37996-0332

Email: cci@utk.edu

Undergraduate Advising Phone: 865-974-3603
Administration Office Phone: 865-974-3031

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996
865-974-1000

The flagship campus of the University of Tennessee System and partner in the Tennessee Transfer Pathway.

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