Part-Time Faculty: SMC 500: Performance for Sports Media (Fall 2026)

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University is seeking an individual to teach SMC 500 Performance for Sports Media on Tuesdays/Thursdays 2:00pm-3:20pm in the Fall 2026 semester. (3 credits)

This class focuses on critical voice and on-camera performance skills. Emphasis is on developing and improving an authoritative and conversational delivery for sports reporting on set, in packages, interviews, and live in remote locations. Students will engage in oral and written exercises to strengthen the foundation for developing a relaxed, natural, conversational, and professional-sounding delivery. This course will present the theory and practice of effective sports announcing and performance procedures that must be used when the medium of radio and television broadcasting is used to communicate with mass audiences. Students will develop sports broadcast copy analysis skills that will enable them to communicate at various presentational levels as required b...