Loyola University School of Mass Communication

Welcome to the College of Social Sciences

Recognized for excellence

By choosing the College of Social Sciences, you’ll not only choose from a diverse group of programs such as Mass Communication, Nursing, and Pastoral Studies, and disciplines such as Counseling, Criminal Justice, Liberal StudiesPolitical Science, and Sociology, but you’ll also be choosing a college touted as a leader, singled out for excellence as one of the Great Schools for Communications Majors and Great Schools for Journalism Majors by the Princeton Review in 2008.

In addition, the College of Social Sciences is home to several centers and institutes that serve as important resources as Loyola teaches students to think critically and act justly: Center for Environmental Communication, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Shawn M. Donnelley Center for Nonprofit Communication, and the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice.

Student Successes

Political Science student honored for outstanding academic achievement

College of Social Sciences Department of Political Science

Amye Green was honored by the Department of Political Science with the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award for a student majoring in Political Science on May 10, 2009 in the College of Social Sciences annual awards ceremony.

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Faculty Successes

Dr. Angel Parham has had an article in the journal Diaspora.

Dr. Angel Parham has had an article entitled "Internet, Place, and Public Sphere in Diaspora Communities" published in the journal Diaspora, 14[2/3]: 349-380.

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Alumni Successes

Political Science graduate practices healthcare law

College of Social Sciences Department of Political Science

James Kovota, A'91, L'94, is an attorney with Sullivan, Stolier & Resor in New Orleans, where he practices healthcare law. Kovota has worked for the firm since 1994.

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