Teaching

Teaching Awards:

• 2017-2018 Teaching Recognition Award. Office of the Provost. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

• 2012-2013 Teaching Distinction Award. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Areas of Teaching Interest                                                                                                               

• Interpersonal Communication

• Communicative Issues of Death and Dying

• Computer-Mediated Communication

• Communication Theory

• Small Group Communication

• Public Speaking

• Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis

• Dark Side of Communication

Courses Taught at SIUE                                                                                                                             

• HONS 100: On Education (O)

• HONS 121: Rhetoric

• HONS 200: Globalization and Death

• ACS 101: Public Speaking (H; O)

• ACS 103: Interpersonal Communication Skills 

• ACS 200: Advanced Public Speaking

• ACS 201: Small Group Communication (H; O)

• ACS 323: Interpersonal Communication Theory and Applications (O)

• ACS 330: Theories of Communication (Flipped; O)

• IS 342: Death and Dying (interdisciplinary team-taught course)

• ACS 421: Computer-Mediated Communication (H; O)

• ACS 423: Special Topics: Communicative Issues of Death and Dying

• ACS 424: Senior Project in Interpersonal Communication (H; O)

• ACS 425: Communicative Aspects of Death and Dying (H; O)

• ACS 434: Nonverbal Communication (H)

• ACS 461: Strategies for Teaching Speech Communication (H; O)

• ACS 500: Communication Theory and Qualitative Research Methods

• ACS 502: Qualitative Research Methods (H)

• ACS 509: Special Topics: Dark Side of Communication (O)

• ACS 509: Special Topics: Death and Dying (H;O)

• ACS 509: Special Topics: Communication and Emotion

• ACS 509: Special Topics: Romantic Relationships

• ACS 520: Seminar in Interpersonal Communication (H)

• ACS 521: Seminar in Computer-Mediated Communication (H)