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This page contains links to useful teaching tools, along with syllabi for all courses taught since 1998. For questions and suggestions please send an e-mail message.
Reading Resources
Reading in the Social Sciences
This article is a guide for all students who must read research as part of course assignments. (Download the above as DOC, or click here for PDF).
How to Create a Reading Summary
Step-by-step instructions for building an airtight summary from the bottom up (or click here for PDF).
Undergraduate Reading Summary Form
This form is useful for summarizing books and article on a single sheet. (Download the above as DOC, RTF, or PDF)
Graduate Reading Summary Form
Graduate students use the more-detailed form: Graduate Reading in the Social Sciences (or DOC or PDF).
Writing Resources
Writing Organization (PPT)
Writing Paragraphs (PPT)
Writing Style (PDF)
Department of Communication
University of Illinois, Chicago
Each Semester
COMM 101 Introduction to Communication
Midterm Assessment Survey
ITL Presentation
Assessment with Blackboard CourseInfo
Spring 2012
COMM 580 Qualitative Methods in Communication
Autumn 2011
COMM 500 Philosophy of Communication
Philosophy of Communication Readings
Spring 2011
COMM 460 Visual Communication
Autumn 2010
COMM 500 Introduction to Communication Research
Spring 2010
COMM 494 New Long Journalism
COMM 580 Qualitative Methods in Communication
2009 on Sabbatical Leave
Spring 2008
COMM 580 Qualitative Methods in Communication
Autumn 2007
COMM 502 Seminar in Media Studies Syllabus
Spring 2007
COMM 494 Old, New, or No News?
Autumn 2006
COMM 502 Seminar in Media Studies
Distinguished Fulbright Chair in the History of 20th Century Communications
University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy
III Trimestre 2006
Modulo
M-STO/04. American Media in the XX Century
Modulo
SPS/08. Giornalismo - U.S. Journalism
Department of Communication
University of Illinois, Chicago
Autumn 2005
COMM 502 Seminar in Media Studies
Spring 2005
COMM 580 Qualitative Methods in Communication
Autumn 2004
COMM 502 Seminar in Media Studies
Spring 2004
COMM/GWS 594 LGBT Media Studies
Autumn 2003
COMM 502 Seminar in Media Studies
Spring 2003
COMM 494 Visual Communication
Autumn 2002
COMM 502 Seminar in Media Studies
Spring 2002
COMM 502 Seminar in Media Studies
COMM 494 Critical Analysis of Information Media
Autumn 2000
COMM 502 Seminar in Media Studies
COMM 490 Communication, Culture & Society
Autumn 1999
COMM 502 Seminar in Media Studies
Spring 1999
COMM 594 Images in the Cultural Circuit
COMM 330 Mass Media & Popular Culture
Autumn 1998
COMM 594 Citizens and the Media
Associate Professor of Public Communications
Madrid Center, Syracuse University