Students from Buriram
Rajabhat University pose for a group picture during their field trip to
Mini Siam.
Warunya Thongrod
Thirty Buriram Rajabhat students learned how symbols
play a part in arts and culture during a field trip to Pattaya.
Three communications professors led the Aug. 15 field
trip to Mini Siam where Pattaya Mail reporter Manoon Makpol, a
university alumnus, talked to the students on the art of communicating
with symbols and how to produce news.
The students also studied news-gathering procedures
in Pattaya and enjoyed a performance at the Alcazar Theatre, where they
studied the transvestite performers facial expressions, costumes and
stage production.
“Using symbols is another very vital part of
communication which is called nonverbal communication,” said Assistant
Professor Saijai Thunkarn. “Therefore, the trip to study art in Mini
Siam is to help students understand the use of nonverbal communication
from the world-class sculptures that can be integrated in communication
studies.”
Student Phutimet Phungprapa said he and his friends
learned lessons they can use in their studies. He thanked his professors
for the trip to Pattaya which he said had many interesting symbols.
