I’ve taught a variety of courses during my career, but here are some courses that I’ve taught recently. Click on the links below to see course syllabi.

Undergraduate courses:

• Communication Theory: This course introduces early communication studies majors to foundational social scientific and humanistic communication theories.
• Social Networking Sites & Personal Relationships: This upper-level undergraduate seminar focuses on foundational theories of computer-mediated communication in order to understand contemporary communication technologies.

Graduate courses:

• Social Networking Sites & Personal Relationships: Thematically, this course is much like its undergraduate-level cousin, but implements more original source readings and requires more advanced student projects.
• Quantitative Research Methods: This graduate course covers social science statistics, including correlations, t-tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and regression.

I’ve also worked closely with Em Griffin and Glenn Sparks on the textbook A First Look at Communication Theory, now in its 9th edition. Written in an engaging and conversational style, the book introduces students to metatheoretical traditions and specific communication theories.