Amy Petersen Jensen
From College of Fine Arts and Communications
Jensen is an Assistant Professor in the College of Fine Arts and Communications at Brigham Young University, where she coordinates the undergraduate Theatre and Media Education Program as well as the Media Education Masters Degree. In addition to teaching and research, Jensen directs the Theatre and Media Arts Department's Hands on a Camera service-learning project, in which theatre and media education university students work with in-service public school educators to train young people in media literacy and production skills.
Jensen has received numerous grants for Media in Education projects including Hands on a Camera; The Daylight Media Project, a curriculum database for film studies teachers in the public school system; and the Film and Culture Series, a media literacy project that brought high school teachers and their students to Brigham Young University to study cultural theory as it related to contemporary film texts.
In 2009, Jensen, was awarded the Young Scholar Award at BYU University Conference. This award encourages and acknowledges outstanding promise and contributions by faculty in the early stages of their academic careers.
