Instructor, Department of Communication, University of Tampa, Summer 1998-Spring 1999. Instructor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, Fall 1993-Fall 1998. Learning to use both rhetorical and interpersonal theories, students explore how communication practices in institutions such as the family, education, the workplace, and the media create, reinforce, challenge, and alter gendered identities, roles, and rules. By emphasizing the interconnectedness of communication and mass communications, this class elucidates how media help construct and transform personal identity, the meanings of romance and interpersonal relationships, and conceptions of gender, culture, class, and sexuality. They examine their own and others' families as complex sites for making and remaking identity, relationships, and meaning.
Students learn how to research, construct, and perform various kinds of speeches.
To help them enter a global marketplace, listening, audience analysis, communication ethics, and cultural diversity also are emphasized.