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Marie C. Haverfield, PhD
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
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