Contact

Teaching

I enjoy teaching and having the opportunity to interact with students. While pursuing a PhD, I have taken advantage of multiple opportunities to teach both as a teaching assistant and as the instructor-of record. The BBC World Service Trust invited me to teach structural equation modeling and social network analysis to researchers working on development communication during their 2009 annual workshop. I am currently working with the Marshall School of Business Experiential Learning Center. I facilitate an array of scenarios that give students experience with participatory learning on topics such as cross-cultural and organizational communication.

Through my experiences in the classroom, I have developed an approach to teaching that focuses on encouraging student involvement. I believe in challenging students and using scaffolding techniques to help them achieve more than they realized they could.

Instructor

  • COMM 204 - Public Speaking, Fall 2008

Facilitator

  • USC Marshall School of Business - Experiential Learning Center, Fall 2009

Lab Instructor

  • COMM 301L - Empirical Research in Communication, Spring 2009

Teaching Assistant

  • COMM 200 - Communication as a Social Science, Spring 2008
  • COMM 550 - Research Methods in Communication (Doctoral Level Course), Fall 2007

Guest Lecturer

  • CMGT 573 - Evaluating Communication Needs; Lecture topic: Social network analysis
  • COMM 650 - Survey Construction and Validation; Lecture topics: Factor analysis, Validity and reliability