Courses Taught

Plymouth State University: Communication & Media Studies

CM 4655 Communication Research Methods, Sole Instructor, Fall 2014 – Present
Introduces students to qualitative research methods and quantitative research methods used regularly by communication scholars. This course is designed to enable students to design, implement, and analyze their own methodologically sound research studies and to effectively critique the completed research of others.

CM 4905 Senior Seminar, Sole Instructor, Spring 2020
Provides students with the opportunity to reflect upon their major coursework in order to connect theory and application in preparation for their entry into the workforce. Focuses on applying ethical frameworks to a variety of case studies related to interpersonal, group and organizational communication, and to personal and professional consumption and production of media.

CM 3945 Social Media: Technology & Culture, Sole Instructor, Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Students will critically analyze the role of social media in everyday life. We will work to better understand how social media inform contemporary media culture through examination of the history, creation, control, and impact of social media technologies, including social network websites, smartphone apps, online games, etc. We will explore issues of identity, privacy, community, and access inherent to social media engagement. Further, this course will analyze various media industries relationships with social media technologies via theoretical and practical applications.

CM 2991 Social Media: Audience Engagement, Sole Instructor, Spring 2017, Spring 2018
Students critically examine the ways in which audiences interact online with organizations, brands, and media texts, as well as the strategies that digital content creators use to engage their audiences. Emphasis is placed upon the creative, analytical, and critical thinking needed to develop social media tactics that support dynamic online participation and address the shifting capabilities and practices of digital consumption.

CM 2915 Communication and Leadership, Sole Instructor, Fall 2019
Previously presented as Human Communication & Conflict, Communication and Leadership examines conflict and leadership in personal and professional settings with a focus on the role communication plays in creating, negotiating, and transforming conflict situations. Students explore the role of communication competence and professional civility in interpersonal and small group environments to develop skills in mediating conflict into constructive opportunities in personal, professional, and social settings.

CM 2910 Human Communication & Conflict, Sole Instructor, Fall 2015 – Spring 2018
Human Communication & Conflict examines conflict and leadership in personal and professional settings with a focus on the role communication plays in creating, negotiating, and transforming conflict situations. Students explore the role of communication competence and professional civility in interpersonal and small group environments to develop skills in mediating conflict into constructive opportunities in personal, professional, and social settings.

CM 2000 Studies in Communication & Media, Sole Instructor, Spring 2019
​Required of all Communication and Media Studies majors, ideally in their first semester as a major. Acquaints students with fundamental concepts in communication and media studies such as various communication and media theories, types of communication and media research, and how to apply these theories and research methods as a communication and media studies scholar.

CM 4910 Independent Study: Hypermediated Marketplace of Sports, Sole Instructor, Summer 2018
Student will interrogate the “hyper mediated market place of sports” through a close reading of Robert Kerr’s The Sociology of Sports Talk Radio. During this one credit Independent Study the student will examine how mass media interact with digital innovation in the realm of sports talk radio to better understand digital meaning making in the sports talk radio sphere.

CM 3640 Communication Theory, Sole Instructor, Fall 2014 – Spring 2016
Reading, discussion, and application of current theories of communication are integral to this writing intensive course. This course surveys diverse communication theories, which are the important tools for describing, explaining, and understanding our everyday communication process.

Plymouth State University: Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

IS 3470 Women in Contemporary American Culture, Sole Instructor, Fall 2019
Students explore the attitudes that shape the professional and social opportunities for American women today. Reading for the course includes historical background but focuses on contemporary issues. Students learn to examine the attitudes and beliefs that women hold and the decisions that women make in society in general and in the work place. Some questions we consider include: What makes a woman a woman? How does one ‘become’ a woman? How does society affect our ideas about what women ‘are like’ and what women ‘do’? In what ways do class, race, sexual orientation, geography, ability affect what it means to be a woman? Through interdisciplinary study, we examine what it means to be a ‘woman’ in our current culture and time period.

CMDI 2025 Sex and Cinema in the 20th Century (and Beyond), Sole Instructor, Spring 2018, Spring 2020
Explores the evolution and social construction of sex, gender and sexual orientation in narrative cinema during the 20th century (and beyond). Students will gain a general understanding of significant historical events/origins that influenced the representations of gender on film over time. Students will examine fundamental theoretical and historical knowledge about cinematic constructions of gender and sexual orientation from the earliest representations to those of the 21st century. Finally, students will develop critical thinking skills about stereotypes, both past and present, in relation to how such stereotypes influenced various perspectives about cultural constructs (gender, sexual orientation, and race) over time.

WS 4000 Internship: Title IX, Sole Instructor, Fall 2019 – Spring 2020
A culminating educational experience to apply the knowledge and skills gained from course work. Placements are in an institution, business, or agency delivering services to women. Repeatable for a maximum of 15 credits. Only 3 credits may be used to complete the Women’s Studies minor.

WS 4000 Internship: Office of Community Impact, Sole Instructor, Spring 2020
A culminating educational experience to apply the knowledge and skills gained from course work. Placements are in an institution, business, or agency delivering services to women. Repeatable for a maximum of 15 credits. Only 3 credits may be used to complete the Women’s Studies minor.

WS 4000 Internship: PSU President’s Commission, Sole Instructor, Fall 2019
A culminating educational experience to apply the knowledge and skills gained from course work. Placements are in an institution, business, or agency delivering services to women. Repeatable for a maximum of 15 credits. Only 3 credits may be used to complete the Women’s Studies minor.

WS 4910 Independent Study: Advocacy Marketing, Sole Instructor, Spring 2020
Women’s Studies (WS) Independent Study focused on Title IX advocacy marketing – focused on spreading awareness of sexual misconduct on college campuses, public speaking in classes, organizations, sport teams, and PSU clubs, and incorporating new knowledge in this area of policy. Additionally, student will be networking with local constituents and stakeholders, to further learn law, policy, and language surrounding Title IX topics and issues. Student will engage with teaching and learning on common drug/alcohol abuses and solutions in the PSU community. Finally, student will create and develop social media marketing posts to document work with Title IX Advocacy.

WS 4910 Independent Study: Women in Rock Music, Sole Instructor, Spring 2020
Women’s Studies (WS) Independent Study focused on Women in Rock Music. This Independent Study will focus on the specific Riot Grrrl movement of the 1990s through reading Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
By Sara Marcus (HarperCollins, 2010). Students may elect to undertake a self-directed program of study in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the scholarship on women through reading and research.

Temple University: Klein College of Media & Communication

ADV 1101 Introduction to Media & Society, Sole Instructor, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014
This course introduces students to the history, organization, creation, economics, control and effects of mass communications in the United States, including the relationships of media to one another and to the community at large with emphasis on the roles and responsibilities of advertising, advertisers and agencies.

ADV 2010 Special Topics: Social Media & Society, Sole Instructor, Fall 2010, Spring 2011
In order to better understand the contemporary media environment, this course addresses the history, creation, control and influence of digital communication technologies that inform participatory media culture. This course analyzes various media industries’ relationships with emerging technologies through theoretical and practical applications in order to synthesize key debates in the field.

ADV 1102 Introduction to Advertising, Sole Instructor, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2012
This course introduces students to the function of advertising in the economy, to the strategic identification of markets and targets, to the creation and placement of advertising and to the relationship of advertising agencies to advertisers and the media.

JOU 1111 Journalism & Society, Teaching Assistant, Philadelphia, PA, Fall 2007
This course introduces students to the concepts and functions of journalism and the related industries of advertising and public relations in American society by examining the history, economics and industry structure of these industries, focusing on how mass media content is determined and disseminated.

Holy Family University: School of Arts and Sciences 

COMM 314 Editing in the Age of Convergence, Sole Instructor, Fall 2012, Fall 2013
Editing is a foundational course that focuses on editing skills with an emphasis on print and online media. Editing for fairness, accuracy, and inclusiveness; style, language, grammar and conciseness is emphasized. The course trains students to see the editor’s role in considering ethics in the written word and in photographs.

ENGL 115 Public Speaking, Sole Instructor, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013
This course develops the communication skills necessary for effective oral communication in both academic and professional settings. Emphasis is placed upon building self-confidence, organizing messages and making presentations, oral and written self- and peer- critiquing; individual attention as needed. Students will learn the principles of public speaking and critical thinking: those concerned with the discovery and evaluation of arguments and evidence, organization, style, audience analysis and adaptation, speech composition, and presentation skills.

Syracuse University: Newhouse School
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GRA 218 Introduction to the Graphic Arts Laboratory, Sole Instructor, Fall 2004,
Spring 2005
Instructed graphic design lab in conjunction with GRA 217 lecture. This course introduces students to the programs Adobe Illustrator, Quark Express, and Adobe Photoshop.

GRA 217 Introduction to the Graphic Arts, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2005
This course introduces students to the principles of digital design, composition, computerized layout, typography and imaging applied to advertising, public relations, and publication design.