Academics

Meet the Faculty

Susan Plumb Salas
Associate Professor of Telecommunications and Director of Broadcasting

Division: Communication Division
Office: Center for Communication and Business (CCB)
Phone: (310) 506-7422
E-mail: susan.salas@pepperdine.edu

• B.A., Theater, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1972
• M.A., Telecommunications, University of Iowa, 1973
• M.F.A., Film Production, American Film Institute, 1997

Courses:

• Advanced Television Production
• Video Production
• Writing for the Mass Media
• Radio Production
• Television Performance
• Narrative Digital Short Production
• Freshman Seminar: Myth and the Movies

Key Awards/Affiliations:

• Nominee for the Alpha Phi Foundation Professor of the year Award
• Service Learning Grant, Pepperdine, 1997, 1997
• Broadcast Education Association
• Women in Film
• Screen Actors Guild
• American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
• Howard A. White Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence, 2004
• Outstanding Teaching Award, Communication Division, Spring 2005
• 5 year Service Mentor Award, Techonolgy Consortium

Academic Interests:

• Family and children's patterns of TV viewing, and how this can be moderated.