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Personal Relationships and Communication Technologies. A graduate seminar examining how the internet, telephone, telegraph, and other technologies mediate our personal relationships. The reading list is heavy on recent research.

Communication on the Internet An undergrad course that examines the nature of communication online, its potential consequences offline, and the ways on and offline life are interwoven. Covers issues including identity, relationships, community, access, gender, health, and politics.

Qualitative Methods A graduate methods seminar in the logic of qualitative methods, the research process, and methods including participant-observation, interviewing, discourse analysis, and document analysis.

Internet Studies A graduate seminar team taught with Dr. John Monberg. Issues include methods, ethics, identity, community, relationships, space, the public sphere, and other good stuff. This won't be taught again, but it's still a good resource syllabus.

Introduction to Theories of Interpersonal Communication This is a survey lecture-discussion course in Interpersonal Communication. The course covers models of communication, social cognition, and the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of interpersonal relationships. I've taught this class dozens of times since 1988 and I always enjoy it.

Nonverbal Communication This is a survey lecture-discussion course in Nonverbal Communication for upper leve undergraduates and graduate students. The course covers nonverbal codes, culture, gender and emotional expression along with oodles of other interesting topics.

Ethnography of Communication A graduate methods course that includes the qualitative methods of participant-observation and interviewing used in the service of describing and explaining a cultural whole. I don't know if I'll teach this again as I've been teaching a more general graduate seminar in Qualitative Methods.