Instructor, Research Methods in Health Communication 

• 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