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IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Olivia Crozier

February 16, 2015 Director of Communications, Simmons College
(207) 939-3645
croziero@simmons.edu

News Release
New PR/Marketing Communication major offered at Simmons College
BOSTONSimmons College has recently launched their new joint major for the
School of Management and the Communications department. The new
PR/Marketing Communication major allows students interested in both the Public
Relations major in the Communications department and the Marketing major in the
School of Management to have one major that incorporates both.

We wanted to give students the opportunity to major in something that
incorporates both Public Relations and Marketing rather than requiring them to
double major in these two subjects. This new major will expose students to both
communications and management courses while teaching them how the two fields
can be related, said Andrew Porter, Lecturer in Communications at Simmons
College.

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For juniors and seniors at Simmons College it will be hard for them to switch over to
the new major without falling short of the requirements before graduation.
However, the new major is suggested to freshman, sophomores, and all incoming
students interested in Public Relations and Marketing. Professors at Simmons
College are urging students to look into this new major so that students can learn
about how the two subjects are related to one another. Students who choose to
major in PR/Marketing Communication will graduate with a Bachelor of Art degree.

The professors in the Communications Department are excited to begin working
with the professors in the School of Management to provide our students with a
better understanding of how Public Relations and Marketing go hand in hand, said
Judy Richland, Lecturer in Communications at Simmons College.

For more information about the new major, please contact (617) 521-2000 or
andrew.porter@simmons.edu. For more information, visit
https://www.simmons.edu.

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