COURSES I'VE TAUGHT
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*SALEM 350 Dress Profesh: Dress Codes, Professionalism, and Social Justice (Salem College)
This interdisciplinary course offers an integrative learning experience in which senior students assume an active role in exploring the concept, practice, and enactment of dress codes in professional settings from multiple perspectives. Students will develop and communicate creative responses to professional dress codes while analyzing the power structures that create and reify these codes. Assignments will include thrift store shopping and assembling multiple “looks” for different professional contexts.
*INTG 220 Career Development for Humanities Students (Salem College)
Open to students of all majors, this course is designed to assist students in the humanities prepare for careers outside of academia. Students will learn about the history of the humanities, investigate potential careers and design a timeline and plan to maximize their professional development at Salem College.
*ENGL 344 Digital Writing in Professional Contexts (Salem College)
This course, envisioned as a capstone of the minor, focuses on digital production of texts, including professional uses of social media, blogging, and web design. Students will develop professional writing portfolios.
*WMST 220 Fat Feminisms: A History of the Body Positivity Movement (Salem College)
This women's studies special topics course will define, critique, and trace the history of the current "body positivity" movement through feminist theory and practice. Students will practice reading and mapping out theoretical texts, creating and discussing research questions, and engaging with the body from a position of intersectionality.
*ENGL 305 Professional Writing in Community Contexts (Salem College, service learning)
This service learning course offers experience working with community partners in order to practice professional writing. Students will refine their skills in genres including grants proposals, grant letters, project pitches, memo writing, and social media for professional purposes. Students will be exposed to writing center theory and practice with an emphasis on social justice applications.
*ENGL 291 Visual Rhetoric and Document Design for Professional Writing (Salem College)
This course introduces students to visual rhetoric, focusing on the theories and practices for producing and refining document design for professional purposes. This course will make use of design programs including Photoshop, iMovie, Publisher, and more through the lens of business/professional writing.
*ENGL 335 Freelance Professional Writing, Editing, and Publishing (Salem College)
This course provides students with theoretical and practical knowledge of how to create, promote, and sustain freelance writing work. Focusing on multiple outlets of professional writing including copy-editing, ghost writing, freelance writing, tutoring writing, and self publishing, this course will cover freelance experiences from conception through practice. Students will create a variety of materials including the basics of a personal website, professional social media accounts, business cards, and more.
*ENGL 250 Introduction to Professional Writing (Salem College)
This course familiarizes students with the genres and practices of professional writing in traditional and digital contexts. Students will gain introductory experience writing in a variety of professional genres, including memos, proposals, executive summaries, emails, and letters of intent. Students will also interrogate notions of professionalism and investigate the role of the body in multimodal professional contexts.
SIGN 210 Community Writing (Salem College, service learning)
This course provides sophomores and juniors with a meaningful service experience within the community beyond Salem and enhances skills required for effective citizenship and leadership: critical thinking and problem-solving, communication, and research. Students perform a minimum of 30 hours of community service and develop a collaborative project related to the themes of community, self and leadership.
*SIGN 110 Citizen Consumers: Writing, Pop Culture, and Women in America (Salem College)
In this class we develop our critical thinking, reading, writing, and researching skills while focusing on contemporary American popular culture as a site of textual self-production. Whether we are aware of it or not, popular culture makes meaning for/about us and teaches us what it means to be a citizen consumer in contemporary American culture. We discuss, define, and rhetorically utilize concepts of ideology (systems of beliefs), and epistemology (the way meaning is made) in order to understand ourselves in the context of the popular cultural texts we consume. Major research paper is centered around addressing trolls in public comment sections. You can access the class blogs here and here.
SIGN 112 Academic Writing Seminar (Salem College)
This writing-intensive course provides students with intensive writing practice. In small groups students enhance drafting, revising, and editing skills for a variety of academic purposes. You can access the class blog here.
WRA 395 Writing Center Theory & Practice (Michigan State University, hybrid)
This course is designed to examine the techniques and theories that inform the practice of tutoring writing. In particular, this course trains students to tutor writing in the Writing Center at MSU, as well as other tutoring spaces across campuses, age levels, and wider communities. The course focuses on the practical components of writing center work and how these methods can be applied across settings. Specific topics include service learning, collaborative learning, consultation approaches, consultant roles, grammar instruction discussions, consulting strategies for a variety of clients (on campus and in the community), computer usage in the writing center, composition & learning theories that influence writing center work, and resource development.
*AL 891 Embodied Rhetorics (Michigan State University)
This Studies in Rhetoric course examines the idea of embodiment, how notions of embodiment play out in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, age, size, and other factors and considers how these various ways of viewing, interacting with/through, and thinking about bodies affects/creates rhetorical structures and genres. In particular we consider intersectionality, ways of controlling/policing bodies as well as ways of resisting and subverting such control, bodies in particular circumstances/places/spaces such as classrooms, research, medical establishments, dress, and performance. We also be seek an awareness of our embodied identities and thus what we bring to the places and spaces we inhabit, including our own relationships (with a wide array of people and institutions) and research. I am the teaching intern for this class, led by Dr. Trixie Smith.
WRA 110 Writing: Science & Technology (Michigan State University, hybrid)
The study and practice of varieties of invention, arrangement, revision, style and delivery to help students make successful transitions to writing, reading, and researching in higher education. See my teaching narrative for more information.
WRA 150 Evolution of American Thought (Michigan State University)
The study and practice of varieties of invention, arrangement, revision, style and delivery to help students make successful transitions to writing, reading, and researching in higher education. I taught this course themed around pop culture in America.
ATD 430 Dress, Culture, and Human Behavior (Michigan State University)
This course investigates dress as an expression of self and reflection of society and global cultures and the effect of dress on human behavior at the personal, interpersonal, and social organizational levels. I was the teaching intern for this class, led by Dr. Theresa Winge.
ENGL 311 Professional Writing (Davenport University)
This course develops the written and presentation skills necessary for success in professional, supervisory, or managerial positions. Emphasis on communication in both on-paper and digital media is included. Students also learn to use a variety of formats, styles, and delivery systems to achieve the clear, concise, and professional communication required to communicate in global markets. To stress the importance of workplace communication, students create a major professional document as a team.
COMM 120 Presentation Skills (Davenport University)
This course introduces and applies the theories and principles of effective communication. Students learn to organize and present clear, logical messages to specific audiences. They develop confidence in public speaking and increase their ability to inform and persuade listeners. They also implement critical thinking and listening skills. Finally, students exhibit the skills and tools necessary to construct, organize, and deliver effective speeches.
ENGL 109 Advanced Composition (Davenport University)
This course introduces students to expository and persuasive writing. Employing critical thinking and the writing process, students will compose academic essays utilizing a variety of modes. They will also analyze and respond to a variety of academic and professional readings. Students will evaluate information and audience to improve form and content. Students are also introduced to the research process, including finding, evaluating, and documenting sources, to complete a short research project using the American Psychological Association Style.
ENG 758 Graduate-Level Academic and Disquisitional Writing Across the Disciplines (North Dakota State University)
This course is designed to help students from all departments at NDSU become successful writers in their academic and post-academic careers. While addressing elements that are shared across the disciplines (e.g. abstracts, literature reviews, academic honesty), this course emphasizes learning to write academic and research texts within different disciplines. Students will analyze discourse practices in their own fields and produce written work in their own disciplines. A portion of the course will be dedicated to developing clear, correct, and audience-appropriate documents. I was the teaching intern for this class, led by Enrico Sassi.
ENG 120 College Composition II (North Dakota State University)
Advanced practice in reading and writing of various genres for different situations and audiences. Includes field research, collaboration, and visual communication.
*SALEM 350 Dress Profesh: Dress Codes, Professionalism, and Social Justice (Salem College)
This interdisciplinary course offers an integrative learning experience in which senior students assume an active role in exploring the concept, practice, and enactment of dress codes in professional settings from multiple perspectives. Students will develop and communicate creative responses to professional dress codes while analyzing the power structures that create and reify these codes. Assignments will include thrift store shopping and assembling multiple “looks” for different professional contexts.
*INTG 220 Career Development for Humanities Students (Salem College)
Open to students of all majors, this course is designed to assist students in the humanities prepare for careers outside of academia. Students will learn about the history of the humanities, investigate potential careers and design a timeline and plan to maximize their professional development at Salem College.
*ENGL 344 Digital Writing in Professional Contexts (Salem College)
This course, envisioned as a capstone of the minor, focuses on digital production of texts, including professional uses of social media, blogging, and web design. Students will develop professional writing portfolios.
*WMST 220 Fat Feminisms: A History of the Body Positivity Movement (Salem College)
This women's studies special topics course will define, critique, and trace the history of the current "body positivity" movement through feminist theory and practice. Students will practice reading and mapping out theoretical texts, creating and discussing research questions, and engaging with the body from a position of intersectionality.
*ENGL 305 Professional Writing in Community Contexts (Salem College, service learning)
This service learning course offers experience working with community partners in order to practice professional writing. Students will refine their skills in genres including grants proposals, grant letters, project pitches, memo writing, and social media for professional purposes. Students will be exposed to writing center theory and practice with an emphasis on social justice applications.
*ENGL 291 Visual Rhetoric and Document Design for Professional Writing (Salem College)
This course introduces students to visual rhetoric, focusing on the theories and practices for producing and refining document design for professional purposes. This course will make use of design programs including Photoshop, iMovie, Publisher, and more through the lens of business/professional writing.
*ENGL 335 Freelance Professional Writing, Editing, and Publishing (Salem College)
This course provides students with theoretical and practical knowledge of how to create, promote, and sustain freelance writing work. Focusing on multiple outlets of professional writing including copy-editing, ghost writing, freelance writing, tutoring writing, and self publishing, this course will cover freelance experiences from conception through practice. Students will create a variety of materials including the basics of a personal website, professional social media accounts, business cards, and more.
*ENGL 250 Introduction to Professional Writing (Salem College)
This course familiarizes students with the genres and practices of professional writing in traditional and digital contexts. Students will gain introductory experience writing in a variety of professional genres, including memos, proposals, executive summaries, emails, and letters of intent. Students will also interrogate notions of professionalism and investigate the role of the body in multimodal professional contexts.
SIGN 210 Community Writing (Salem College, service learning)
This course provides sophomores and juniors with a meaningful service experience within the community beyond Salem and enhances skills required for effective citizenship and leadership: critical thinking and problem-solving, communication, and research. Students perform a minimum of 30 hours of community service and develop a collaborative project related to the themes of community, self and leadership.
*SIGN 110 Citizen Consumers: Writing, Pop Culture, and Women in America (Salem College)
In this class we develop our critical thinking, reading, writing, and researching skills while focusing on contemporary American popular culture as a site of textual self-production. Whether we are aware of it or not, popular culture makes meaning for/about us and teaches us what it means to be a citizen consumer in contemporary American culture. We discuss, define, and rhetorically utilize concepts of ideology (systems of beliefs), and epistemology (the way meaning is made) in order to understand ourselves in the context of the popular cultural texts we consume. Major research paper is centered around addressing trolls in public comment sections. You can access the class blogs here and here.
SIGN 112 Academic Writing Seminar (Salem College)
This writing-intensive course provides students with intensive writing practice. In small groups students enhance drafting, revising, and editing skills for a variety of academic purposes. You can access the class blog here.
WRA 395 Writing Center Theory & Practice (Michigan State University, hybrid)
This course is designed to examine the techniques and theories that inform the practice of tutoring writing. In particular, this course trains students to tutor writing in the Writing Center at MSU, as well as other tutoring spaces across campuses, age levels, and wider communities. The course focuses on the practical components of writing center work and how these methods can be applied across settings. Specific topics include service learning, collaborative learning, consultation approaches, consultant roles, grammar instruction discussions, consulting strategies for a variety of clients (on campus and in the community), computer usage in the writing center, composition & learning theories that influence writing center work, and resource development.
*AL 891 Embodied Rhetorics (Michigan State University)
This Studies in Rhetoric course examines the idea of embodiment, how notions of embodiment play out in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, age, size, and other factors and considers how these various ways of viewing, interacting with/through, and thinking about bodies affects/creates rhetorical structures and genres. In particular we consider intersectionality, ways of controlling/policing bodies as well as ways of resisting and subverting such control, bodies in particular circumstances/places/spaces such as classrooms, research, medical establishments, dress, and performance. We also be seek an awareness of our embodied identities and thus what we bring to the places and spaces we inhabit, including our own relationships (with a wide array of people and institutions) and research. I am the teaching intern for this class, led by Dr. Trixie Smith.
WRA 110 Writing: Science & Technology (Michigan State University, hybrid)
The study and practice of varieties of invention, arrangement, revision, style and delivery to help students make successful transitions to writing, reading, and researching in higher education. See my teaching narrative for more information.
WRA 150 Evolution of American Thought (Michigan State University)
The study and practice of varieties of invention, arrangement, revision, style and delivery to help students make successful transitions to writing, reading, and researching in higher education. I taught this course themed around pop culture in America.
ATD 430 Dress, Culture, and Human Behavior (Michigan State University)
This course investigates dress as an expression of self and reflection of society and global cultures and the effect of dress on human behavior at the personal, interpersonal, and social organizational levels. I was the teaching intern for this class, led by Dr. Theresa Winge.
ENGL 311 Professional Writing (Davenport University)
This course develops the written and presentation skills necessary for success in professional, supervisory, or managerial positions. Emphasis on communication in both on-paper and digital media is included. Students also learn to use a variety of formats, styles, and delivery systems to achieve the clear, concise, and professional communication required to communicate in global markets. To stress the importance of workplace communication, students create a major professional document as a team.
COMM 120 Presentation Skills (Davenport University)
This course introduces and applies the theories and principles of effective communication. Students learn to organize and present clear, logical messages to specific audiences. They develop confidence in public speaking and increase their ability to inform and persuade listeners. They also implement critical thinking and listening skills. Finally, students exhibit the skills and tools necessary to construct, organize, and deliver effective speeches.
ENGL 109 Advanced Composition (Davenport University)
This course introduces students to expository and persuasive writing. Employing critical thinking and the writing process, students will compose academic essays utilizing a variety of modes. They will also analyze and respond to a variety of academic and professional readings. Students will evaluate information and audience to improve form and content. Students are also introduced to the research process, including finding, evaluating, and documenting sources, to complete a short research project using the American Psychological Association Style.
ENG 758 Graduate-Level Academic and Disquisitional Writing Across the Disciplines (North Dakota State University)
This course is designed to help students from all departments at NDSU become successful writers in their academic and post-academic careers. While addressing elements that are shared across the disciplines (e.g. abstracts, literature reviews, academic honesty), this course emphasizes learning to write academic and research texts within different disciplines. Students will analyze discourse practices in their own fields and produce written work in their own disciplines. A portion of the course will be dedicated to developing clear, correct, and audience-appropriate documents. I was the teaching intern for this class, led by Enrico Sassi.
ENG 120 College Composition II (North Dakota State University)
Advanced practice in reading and writing of various genres for different situations and audiences. Includes field research, collaboration, and visual communication.
