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Anita G. Day, Ph.D

Public Relations
Baton Rouge, LA

Dr. Anita Day received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in December 2006. She has worked in the mass communication field for 20 years since receiving her FCC license at the age of 16. She began as a disc jockey before moving to television producing and writing. Dr. Day is the Advertising Sequence Head at the School of Mass Communication at Loyola University New Orleans.

Dr. Day's Professional experience encompasses several fields of mass communication from advertising, promotions, marketing, public relations, broadcasting, political communication and non-profit communications. She is able to apply her real-world experience in the class room. Dr. Day has taught many different courses in the mass communication field.  She has taught public relations priniples, writing and cases studies. She has also taught visual communication and advertising principles.  As the current advertising sequence head she teaches the following courses for advertising majors: advertising principles, advertising copywrighting and advertising campaigns.

Dr. Day encourages her students to think and write critically about mediated messages while emphasizing their cultural, ethical, and technological constraints. Indeed, technology is a key component in her courses with the use of the web to facilitate work in the course with the online system, Blackboard, as well as the use of the latest programs in visual design and communication. Dr. Day encourages students to become critical readers, thinkers, and writers; her goal is always not only to promote students intellectual engagement with cultural texts of all kinds but also to help them become more discerning readers of and forceful writers about the world around them.