Courses

My Teaching Philosophy

Each student is unique and has special strengths. I strive to know each of my students well to facilitate their learning, boost their performance, and provide advice that may solve their individual challenges. I find ways of creating a conducive, motivating, and friendly environment for students to get intrigued, to feel related, and to desire more knowledge and know-how. My hope is that they will thrive on grasping great ideas, obtaining new knowledge, and mastering critical skills to excel in the professional world as well as their personal lives. I enjoy tremendously working with students — either in regular classes or on their projects and theses. Teaching truly prompts me to learn vastly and adjust constantly. Teaching has proved a significant source of reward and satisfaction in my academic career!

Courses Offered at BU

CM 321/722 — Communication Research

Undergraduate / Graduate

CM 380 — Theory and Process of Communication

Undergraduate

CM 409 — Persuasion and Public Opinion

Undergraduate

EM 797 — Connecting Humans: Networks, History and Social Media

Graduate

CM 561 — Media and Well-being

New course

Media and Well-being Course Flyer
Dissertation/thesis committees chaired
  • Influenced and unfulfilled? A study on the effects of Instagram use on materialistic values and well-being by Chawannuch Chaikulngamdee 2025
  • The effects of discrete emotion in presidential discourse on public opinion: Iran, Iraq, and United States foreign policy by Katherine Seaton 2017
  • Immigrant song: Reviewing and researching framing in British and French media by Eliza Osmani 2014
  • An investigation of the climate change debate in the context of climategate in American news media by Eva Lillquist 2013
  • Analyzing the role of U.S. media and the activation of public opinion on presidential approval: The case of Obama’s intervention in Libya by Casey Smith 2012
  • Enhancing Americans’ views of Germany: An examination of German-American relations, Americans’ perceptions toward Germany and Germans, and Germany’s public diplomacy in the United States by Miki Yokoyama 2011