LIS461: Data and Algorithms: Ethics and Policy (Grader)

Summer 2025

Graded 36 Comm B students.

An introduction to ethical, legal and policy issues related to analytics, "big data" and algorithms to support decision making. Gain familiarity with major debates and controversies in a variety of contexts. Critically analyze course materials and apply moral reasoning and legal concepts to assess case studies and critique arguments made by others.

CA250: Survey of Contemporary Media

Fall 2024 - Spring 2025

Taught approximately 80 students across four sections.

Key concepts for the critical analysis of television, film, radio, and digital media. Focusing primarily on meanings, aesthetics, technology, media industries, representations, and audiences.

CA359: Sports Media

Fall 2025 (Grader)

Spring 2024 (Teaching Assistant)

Taught approximately 80 students across four sections.

Examines sports media using the frameworks of media and cultural studies. The relationship between sports and popular culture provides an important site for understanding and critiquing the media's relationships to social, cultural, economic, and political structures. Topics for discussion will include sports media industries and technologies; representations of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, and other identities; and the intersection of sports media cultures with such issues as activism and social change, ethics and morality, gambling and fantasy sports, celebrity athletes, and fandom.

CA100: Introduction to Speech Composition

Fall 2023

Taught approximately 30 students across two sections.

Learn how to give effective oral presentations in a variety of public speaking situations and to become better consumers of written and oral discourse. Learn basic composition and outlining skills as well as library research techniques.

CA155: Introduction to Digital Media Production

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Taught approximately 30 students across two sections.

Teaches the skills needed to produce, engage with, and understand new and emerging technologies within the context of communication and creative expression. Become a more critical consumer and producer of digital media.