Teaching Experience

My teaching philosophy is fairly simple: I aspire to be the kind of teacher from whom I would want to learn. I try to be organized, open-minded, and responsive. I often seek and integrate student feedback into my teaching, which helps me understand my students’ perspectives and enables my growth as an instructor. Ultimately, in my personal view, effective teaching centers on connection: connecting to students, connecting ideas, and connecting material to personal, professional, and community experiences.

I am teaching mostly online these days, which means making these connections can be challenging. In order to make the content in my courses engaging, I recorded interviews with experts on the course content. This way, my students get to know me, and they get to hear from experts. I will continue to find ways to foster such connections, as they make teaching such a worthwhile and rewarding endeavor.

Graduate Courses

1. Relational Communication
2. Interpersonal Communication
3. Relational Health Communication
4. Quantitative Research Methods
5. Health Communication

Undergraduate Courses

1. Family Communication
2. Health Communication
3. Relational Communication
4. Interpersonal Communication
5. Communication Theory
6. Empirical Research Methods
7. Gender and Communication
8. Applied Organizational Communication
9. Small Group Communication
10. Introduction to Communication
11. Writing and Rhetoric: Contemporary Controversies