Beyond the Classroom

Students regularly produce publications at the Mount for the development office, the Career Center, the communication office, the sports information office and academic departments. Opportunities for practical experience abound, including work in several student-run publications and broadcast media.

• Mountain Echo campus newspaper
• WMTB student radio station
• MSM-TV closed circuit TV station
• Mount yearbook
• Lighted Corners yearly literary and art magazine
• The Angle newsletter
• Communications studies honor society, Lambda Pi Eta
• Writing Center
• IWCA Press (International Writing Centers Association)
• Opportunity to design a PR campaign for a local organization or business
• Opportunity to develop a detailed proposal for improving aspects of the local community

Recent Internships

Students have gained valuable experience at radio and television stations, at nonprofits, in public relations offices, as legal aides, as newspaper reporters, in communications offices, for government agencies … the list goes on.

• NBC-4 News, Washington, D.C.
• CNN
• WFRE radio
• Maryland Magazine
• Carroll County Times
• Infinity Broadcasting
• MSNBC
• Disney World, Orlando
• Golf Channel
• Frederick Magazine
• Baltimore Aquarium
• AOL
• Mount St. Mary’s Office of Communications
• Mount St. Mary’s Office of Sports Information
• Fort Detrick Legal Office
• National Park Service
• U.S. Congress
• Sheraton Waikiki & Royal Hawaiian Hotels