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As clearly and cuscintly as possible describe your academic background, future plans and most importantly how this course fits into those things.


My name is LaToya Brooks and I am currently a Junior at Manhattanville College.





In the year 2006, I graduated from Thomas R. Proctor High School (located in Utica, NY) with an Advanced Regents Diploma. I was a member of the National Honor Society throughout my four years at Proctor and graduated within the top 15% of my class.





Going into Manhattanville, I was unsure as to what I wanted to major and minor in. That turned out to be a great thing because then I was able to take a variety of classes and experiment with them. A couple of classes I have taken here at Manhattanville include Asian Religions, Malcolm X, Dance Classes, Italian and Spanish, Communications, Sociology classes and the lists goes on and on. Classes I thought I would hate I ended up loving and it made me discover elements about myself I never knew existed.

My future plans are up in the air at the moment. I am a Communications Major and obviously hope to have a career in this field when I graduate from Manhattanville. I am currently taking several courses within the Communications field like Public Relations and Video Production to see what genre of Communications I am most interested in. I anticipate after this year I will have a better understanding of these courses and have a secure focus on one field.

The course Writing For The Media is a requirement for a Communications Major. Information learned in this class benefits all the other Communication classes I am taking. They all revolve around one another and with the knowledge of the history of Communications it will better prepare me for a career in the field.