Neil Goldstein
Coordinator, Communication Program
Montgomery County Community College

e@mail: ngoldste@mc3.edu
Phone: 215/641-6463
Office: PE 215

 Office Hours

Classes (This Term): With Link to Generic Syllabi
      COM 101:     Introduction to Mass Media 
                                (Assignment Guide) (Assignment One)
    COM 120:     Scriptwriting
    COM 205:     Introduction to Video Production
    COM 230:     The Movies
    COM 285:     Communication Portfolio Workshop
    COM 199/299: Independent Study

Other Classes (Taught in the Past):
    COM 103:     Introduction to Video Production Equipment
    SPC 110:     Introduction to Human Communication

Club Advisor:
    Communicating Arts Production Group (CAPG): The student club
         devoted to the production of video programs.
    The student club that manages and runs the
           college radio station.

Personal Summary: During over twenty-five years in the
     communication industry, Mr. Goldstein has produced and
     directed close to one hundred television, radio and
     theatrical dramas, documentaries, training films and
     entertainment specials.  Mr. Goldstein is a member the
     National and Hollywood academies of Television Arts and
     Sciences, the Society of Motion Picture and Television
     Engineers and the Director’s Guild of America and is
     currently on the faculty and serves as Coordinator for the
     Communication Program at Montgomery County Community College
     in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. He holds a Master's degree in a
     communication related field, along with a Bachelor's in
     English from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri,
     and has taken additional courses at The American Film
     Institute, University of Southern California and UCLA. 

      Mr. Goldstein was creator and executive producer of
      Superfest, a television special produced for public
     television with KCET-TV Los Angeles. Superfest was honored
     with a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for Best Host. Breaking
     Ground, and Amnesty: The Dream Fulfilled?, are
     information specials made for KTLA, Tribune Television in
     Los Angeles, and produced and directed by Mr. Goldstein.
     Breaking Ground received two Los Angeles Area EMMY
     nominations, was honored with the Media Access Award for
     Best Documentary along with a Presidential Commendation.  

       With New Jersey Network (NJN) Mr. Goldstein produced,
     directed and wrote the documentary Lyme Disease: In Our
     Own Backyards. He also developed and managed a research
     project at the University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School
     of Communications concerned with the image of persons with
     disabilities in the media.

     For Thomas Jefferson University, Mr. Goldstein developed a
     school age child care project to integrate children with
     disabilities into the mainstream of existing day care
     facilities and completed a series of five training tapes and
     a documentary about traumatic brain injury. He recently
     finished A Chance To Hear, about children learning to
     hear for the first time after receiving a cochlear implant
     for Children's Hospital in Oakland California and is
     currently working on a piece about the integration of
     persons with disabilities into elementary school for Thomas
     Jefferson University College of Health Professions.

       From 1982 until 1985 Mr. Goldstein developed and then sold
     a television station on California’s Central Coast and from
     1975 until 1982 was Director of Instructional Technology at
     Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles. Mr. Goldstein is an
     active member of his Pennsylvania community and has served
     on county-wide and township committees. In addition to his
     current position at Montgomery County Community College, Mr.
     Goldstein also consults and teaches at various local
     educational institutions including Drexel University, Thomas
     Jefferson University and Chestnut Hill College.