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
