Instructor, Research Methods in Health Communication
Instructor, Graduate Level Course, Advanced Family Communication
Instructor, Qualitative Research Methods
Instructor, Graduate Level Course, Research Methodologies
Instructor, Family Communication
Instructor, Introduction to Communication and Information Processes
Teaching Assistant, Communication Research
Instructor, Communication in Relationships
Instructor, Living Learning Community (RUtv & WeatherWatchers)
Instructor, Communication Skills for Career Growth
Instructor, Process of Communication
Instructor, Language & Communication Behavior
Instructor, Introduction to Public Speaking
- Review the range of methodologies and methods used in health communication research
- Engage in various health communication methods
- Conduct a campus health need assessment applying one or more health communication methods
Instructor, Graduate Level Course, Advanced Family Communication
- Review family communication according to various definitions and theoretical perspectives
- Conduct both qualitative and quantitative analysis of family communication data
- Assess how family forms, conflict, and stress have implications for family communication
Instructor, Qualitative Research Methods
- Facilitate student understanding of the philosophical foundations of research
- Discuss various qualitative research method including participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and ethnography
- Engage in developing research questions, research design, data collection, analysis and interpretation
Instructor, Graduate Level Course, Research Methodologies
- Create all course material
- Introduce graduate students to research paradigms, theories, methodologies, and methods
- Engage graduate students in the practice of textual, interpretive, and scientific methods
Instructor, Family Communication
- Develop all course materials for the 400 level course
- Educate students on the theoretical frameworks of family communication
- Conduct research on family communication and explore patterns in family dynamics
Instructor, Introduction to Communication and Information Processes
- Develop syllabus, exams, and assignments and lecture to approximately 450 students
- Introduce students to the field of communication, important theoretical frameworks, and research
- Supervise a staff of teaching assistants
Teaching Assistant, Communication Research
- Facilitate instruction set up
- Manage all course materials and grading
- Guest lecture on qualitative methods
Instructor, Communication in Relationships
- Develop course material and assignments including syllabus and exams
- Review the foundations of human communicative behavior
- Explain the different contexts of interpersonal relationships, and how each context impacts the nature and quality of those relationships
- Discuss how our own behavior affects our interpersonal relationships
- Identify how different theories can be used to explain relational behavior
- Describe the impacts of one’s own communicative actions and the consequent effects messages send to others both directly and indirectly
- Apply concepts, definitions, and ideas discussed in class to student’s own individual relationships in hopes of explaining and identifying healthy and unhealthy behavior
- Advance critical thinking of scholarly material and be able to discuss academic concepts with others
- Require students to produce an academically sound research paper highlighting an area of interpersonal communication
Instructor, Living Learning Community (RUtv & WeatherWatchers)
- Create course syllabus and assignments
- Facilitate student learning through applied exercises in script writing and public speaking
- Encourage critical thinking through rhetorical critique exercises on media artifacts
- Advise students on various jobs within the broadcast communications and meteorology fields
- Develop student writing abilities through weekly reflection papers
- Teach students what to expect in their careers and best ways to attain professional goals
Instructor, Communication Skills for Career Growth
- Facilitate all class discussions in hybrid online and on campus forums
- Monitor students abilities and application of material
- Set example of proper communication skills and how they can be used
- Identify the importance of effective communication skills in the Information Age
Instructor, Process of Communication
- Create all lecture and class material including syllabus and tests
- Diagram the various models within communication
- Discuss the perception process and apply to personal experience or previous knowledge
- Examine both verbal and nonverbal communication
- Deliver three types of public speeches
- Evaluate strengths and limitations in small group communication
- Dissect and explain the impact of communication on interpersonal relationships
Instructor, Language & Communication Behavior
- Create lectures, syllabus, tests and assign all class material
- Assist students in transcribing a recorded conversation
- Lead discussions on the power of language and the importance of context behind an utterance
- Instruct ethnographic research and guide students to recognize conversational phenomena
- Teach students how to recognize variables regarding identity, gender and other forms of member categorization sequentially appearing in social interactions
Instructor, Introduction to Public Speaking
- Develop all course material and assignments including syllabus and exams
- Teach 30+ students quarterly, with lectures on required course material throughout
- Devise effective strategies to reduce students’ communication apprehension and build confidence
- Manage online course functions and operations
- Assist students in understanding of the conceptual basis for oral communication
- Advise students on how to properly research, reason, practice and deliver their speeches
- Emphasize the importance of critical thinking and analyzing through written assignments
- Incorporate the importance of cultural influences to the construction, delivery and analysis of communication
- Speech and debate tournament judge for departmental forensic team