Texas A&M University
(Since 2022)
COMM 628: Political Communication
This grad seminar covers classic works, current research, and emerging trends in the field of political communication. It aims to familiarize students with specific sub-areas of political communication, including press-government relations, disinformation, political campaigns, public opinion and policy, and digital activism. It will cover a range of theories and subjects that touch on different processes and players, and span various contexts, levels of analysis, and methodologies.
COMM 612: Computational methods in Communication Research
Introduction to computational approaches to collecting, organizing, and analyzing data; examination of web-scraping techniques; interaction with API; a survey of supervised methods and unsupervised methods for text analysis; and introduction to neural networks and word embeddings.
COMM 303: Communication Data Application
Introduction to computational approaches to collecting, organizing, and analyzing data; examination of web-scraping techniques; interaction with API; a survey of supervised methods and unsupervised methods for text analysis; and introduction to neural networks and word embeddings.
COMM 304: Digital Communication Analytics and Metrics
Digital communication analytics; extraction of useful information and knowledge from digital communication data; application of data-analytics to social media marketing, demographic analyses of web users, optimization and connection of results across digital tactics; applications of special interest to fields of strategic communication, public relations, advertising, integrated marketing communication, social media strategy and journalism.
University of Washington
(2016-2020)
COM 200: Introduction to Communication
Introduces theories and research in communication. Explores the myriad ways scholars approach fundamental issues of contemporary human communication. Focuses on theories and research of communication (e.g. relational, group, political, cultural, and international). Acts as a gateway to knowledge about the communication discipline.
COM 202: Introduction to Communication
Introduces students to four core principles that undergird the study and practice of communication – communication literacy, research inquiry, theories and concepts, and community engagement. Principles discussed and developed in the context of international communication, political communication, and communication technology and society.
COM 382: Social Scientific Approaches to Communication Research
Comprehensive introduction to research methods employed in basic and applied communication research, including sample surveys, content analysis, experiments, statistics, and more advanced "text as data" methods.
COM 300: Key Concepts of New Media
Provides a comprehensive examination of the effects of new, digital media on interpersonal communication, media industries, and media culture. Emphasis on economic, social, political, and aesthetic implications. Provides limited experience with computer-based media. No prior technical computer experience assumed.
CSSCR: Introduction to R
This class will teach you how to get started with R using the free integrated development environment called Rstudio. The course will cover the basic organization of R and RStudio, where to find good help references, and how to begin a basic analysis. This class is ideal for users who have little or no experience with R.
CSSCR: Graphics in R
This course introduces students to ways of producing effect graphs in R using “ggplot”. Topics covered will include basic plotting functions (e.g. histograms, scatter plots), production of multi-panel graphs, and various means of exporting graphs to other presentation packages.
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