The Annual Public Relations Management’s First Year Orientation

By Grazy Doriane Mengue M’assoughe

To welcome the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s Public Relations Management (PRM) 1^st Year students, the department has annually organised an orientation day for the new elite in the field.   The 2013 orientation day happened on the 20 January 2013 and took place on the Roeland Street campus. 

The purpose of the Orientation Day is to welcome and give the future PR practitioner a direction of what the course will entail, what is expected of them and to help them build relationships with their peers and lecturers. The event was well received by the students who were really excited about the day and also about the goodie bag they received, which included sponsored items from Eskom. 

“I really appreciated this Orientation Day, it helped me get to know my fellow classmates better and  also gave me rules and guidelines to follow during my academic career.“, said  1^st year PR student.

Along with the PRM staff members, Kim Webster from Gecko Connect, a communications agency, and Raiel Le Roux, a member of the Media industry, also presented and welcomed the 1^st years. Other speakers crucial to student life at CPUT included the HIV unit and Student Counseling.