Teaching
My main discipline of expertise is Communication. As a Communication-Studies generalist, I take great pride in my capability and experience vis-a-vis teaching a variety of communication classes.
I particularly enjoy teaching courses with substantive amounts of theory and research-methodology practice, including both quantitative (statistics) and qualitative research-methods courses. I have also enjoyed teaching English and Sociology, thanks to my interdisciplinary education and training-background (with a B.A. in English-Writing, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication, Culture, and Media, with a social-scientific emphasis).
Courses Of Particular Interest In The Future:
- Statistics for Communication and/or Social-Science
- General theory courses for communication & social-science
- Introduction to software-development and analytics for online communication
Teaching Experience:
Please Note: I believe the emphasized [Italicized & Underlined] courses demonstrate the variety of my experience. If you’re interested, please get in touch with me for course-material samples.
Fort Hays State University (FHSU), Hays, KS; Role: Assistant Professor (NTT)
- SP ’20: Communication and Conflict Management/Resolution
- FA ’19 to SP ’20: Fundamentals of Oral Communication (Communication Basic Course)
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ; Role: Adjunct Professor
- SP ’19: Intercultural Communication
Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, P. R. China; Role: Lecturer (NTT)
- FA ’17: Speech Communication as Critical Citizenship (Communication Basic Course)
- FA ’17: Business and Professional Communication
Middlesex County College, Edison NJ; Role: Adjunct Professor
- SP ’16: Introduction to Public Speaking
Kean University, Union NJ; Role: Adjunct Professor
- FA ’10 to SP ’17 (Intermittently): Speech Communication as Critical Citizenship (Basic Course)
- SP ’16: Business and Professional Communication (For Both Speech-Presentation- & Writing- Emphases)
- FA ’16: Listening (Communication Special Topics Course)
- FA ’16: English Composition
- FA ’15: Senior Capstone Course / Quantitative (Statistics) & Qualitative Communication-Research Methods
- FA ’11: Communication and Conflict Resolution
Gwynedd Mercy University, Gwynedd Valley, PA; Role: Adjunct Professor
- FA ’16: Media Technology—Online Course
Drexel University, Philadelphia PA; Role: PhD Student and Adjunct Professor
- WI ’13 to FA ’13: Principles of Communication
- WI ’13 to SP ’14: Intercultural Communication
- SP ’14 to WI ’15: Introduction to Sociology
Temple University, Philadelphia PA; Role: Adjunct Professor
- FA ’12: Intercultural Communication
Sample Student-Evaluation;
FA 2022; Grand Valley State U.; Class: Introductory Psychology (PSY-101)
Current Research
Cognitive-Science-Related Book June 2022:
Link (On Publisher’s Website):
https://www.igi-global.com/book/social-scientific-examination-intra-inter/264268
Other Past & Ongoing Research
General sub-discipline trajectory:
>> Circa 2009 & Masters to 2012:
> Organizational & strategic communication, intercultural comm.–i.e. refugees’ discourses, instructional communication, other related.
>> Ph.D. & Post-Ph.D, 2012 to 2020:
> Health comm.–e.g. illness survivors’ narratives and discourses; interpersonal comm. between healthcare workers and patients and caretakers; other,
> Mass media–e.g. the concept and practice of truth in politics, journalism and journalism studies,
> Other: interpersonal, mass media.
>> Current; 2020 to ___:
> Wrap up of health-comm. project–i.e.interpersonal comm. between healthcare workers and patients and caretakers.
Transition from above topics, to a combined agenda uniting:
> Cognitive science,
> Organizational-communication and PR,
> Computer-mediated communication,
> Mass media (including production) and social-/new-media, and
> Peace and conflict communication at the micro- and meso-levels, i.e. in the contexts of interpersonal communication in group dynamics and in organizations.
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