Teaching

Spring 2010-present, Rutgers-New Brunswick
04:567:330, Exploring New Media (online course)

• Examination of the nature and impact of emerging media technology, including how media professionals do their work, nature of media content, relationships between and among media and relevant publics, and structure, culture and management of media organizations and systems.

Spring 2011, Farleigh Dickinson University
04:567:330, Advertising Principles

• Examination of the nature and impact of emerging media technology, including how media professionals do their work, nature of media content, relationships between and among media and relevant publics, and structure, culture and management of media organizations and systems.

Fall 2010, Rutgers-New Brunswick
04:567:274, Consumer Media Culture

• Provides a critical understanding of advertising's role in society via history of advertising, commercial and social aspects of ad messages, and ad industry's influence on social relations and institutions.
  
  

Fall 2008-present, Rutgers- New Brunswick
04:189:196/197, SC&I Learning Community Academic Course I and II: Television Studies

• Theoretical foundation of television studies to supplement the hands-on television experience gained from production in the RU-tv Living Learning Community
  
  

Fall 2009-present,  Rutgers- New Brunswick
04:189:396/397, SC&I Learning Community Academic Course III: Television Writing

• Continuation of Academic Course I and II; application of television studies theory to writing for television. Students will draft a television script, which will be produced in the Spring 2010 course.
  

Fall 2009-preset, Rutgers- New Brunswick
11:670:111/112, WeatherWatcher Learning Community Academic Course: Weather, Climate and Television

• Foundation of history and practice of television and news broadcasting to supplement the hands-on television meteorology experience gained from production in the WeatherWatcher Living Learning Community.
  
  

Summer 2009 & 2010,  Rutgers- Newark
21:965:203, Introduction to Mass Media

• Introductory course in communications media; covering the history, evolution, economics, and social consequences of book publishing, newspapers, magazines, radio, broadcast and cable television, as well as the Internet and new media.
  
  

Summer 2009 & 2010, Rutgers- Newark
21:965:203, Television and Society

• Political, sociological, psychological, and ethical impact of television; explores examples from the history of the medium and contemporary popular culture and examines the vast social transformation created by television through readings from the social sciences, philosophy, literature, and the arts.
  

Fall 2008, Spring & Fall 2009, Rutgers- New Brunswick
04:567:334, Gender, Race, and Class in the Media

• Content, treatment, and effects of women and minority group coverage in television, newspapers, magazines, popular music and film.
  
  

Fall 2007, Summer 2008, Fall & Summer 2009, Rutgers- New Brunswick
04:189:102, Introduction to Media Systems and Processes

• Introductory course exploring the historical development of mass media institutions and the role of media in society. Particular attention to news, government regulation, effects, economics, emerging technologies, and audience dynamics.
  

Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Rutgers- New Brunswick
Teaching Assistant: 189:102, Introduction to Media Systems and Processes. Instructor- Steven Miller.

• Presented guest lecture on media effects and theory in Spring 2007 and 2008.