The Ad/PR Workshop (MCA 468) is the capstone course in CCNY’s Advertising & Public Relations Program.
This undergraduate senior class enables pre-professional students to go deep into a single, semester-long assignment in partnership with an actual client – especially those with a public service, community-based project.
Students are split into teams designed to mimic a real advertising agency, where they utilize the marketing communication skills and research techniques developed across their coursework in the Ad/PR program, and apply them in a structured and organized experience to solve actual marketing communications problems for real clients.
By the end of the semester, student teams transform their in-depth analysis into strategic communications plans to create, produce, and implement comprehensive communications campaigns that meet the client’s marketing objectives in service to the community.
Below are some recent clients and campaign-centered work:
CUNY School of Public Health: To encourage undocumented CUNY students to sign up for healthcare
CCNY Zahn Center for Innovation: To inspire students to find their inner entrepreneur
CCNY Office of Student Life: To de-stigmatize the issues of sexual abuse among CCNY students
International Anti-Counterfeit Coalition: Dissuade students from buying counterfeit goods
New York Organ Donor Network: Persuade student to become organ donors
Capital One: Promote financial literacy
WE ACT for Environmental Justice: Promote justice in Harlem for environmental equality
Heritage Heights Foundation: Encourage students to support local businesses
Get Healthy Harlem/Columbia University: Promote healthy habits in the community
New York Blood Center: Encourage year-round donation of blood
Healthy CUNY Initiative: Promote healthy habits that increase academic performance
Memorial Sloan Kettering: Increase awareness of the HPV virus
City College Writing Center: Elevate the status of writing among CCNY students
City College Library: Increase awareness of on-campus services
Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University: Increase the level of dialog at religiously diverse college campuses
The American Heart Association: Encourage Hispanic CCNY student to reduce the salt intake of themselves and family.
Last Updated: 07/20/2024 20:22