Educator and Mentor
I love teaching and mentoring students.
I teach first-year writing, advanced writing, and STEM-specific writing classes.
First-Year Writing (Theme: Human Connection in the Digital Age) helps students make the transition from high school writing to (5 paragraph essays and timed 40-minute essays) to college, professional, and real-life writing. We look at various genres. We talk about ethos as not only credibility but also relatablilty. We practice key skills like brainstoming on paper and in community, revision processes, and even iterative AI prompting. It's never been a more interesting time to prepare students to express their ideas clearly and effectively.
Artifical Intelligence and Writing is a new course I developed at Santa Clara University, supported by a grant. This course takes a deep dive into AI's role in changing writing processes in education, in industry, and in everyday life. Students design and conduct an original primary research project examining an application of AI for writing in a particular context.
Internet Culture and Information Society explores how Web 2.0 (the social internet) began with high hopes. We read and discuss the scholarly and popular articles explosing the problems of algorithmic control, influencers, and bitter arguments online, and how these changed internet culture for the worse. Students develop researched arguments in their specific interests related to internet culure.
Engineering Communications addresses the need for enginnering students to learn clear speaking and writing techniques as well as related issues in social justice and ethics. Students engage in a group and individual oral presentation to really hone their speaking and collaboration skills.
Introduction to Rhetoric focuses on different approaches to defining and explaining rhetoric. Taking a theory + practice integrated approach, we focus on how various rhetorical theories tie into current issues and areas of interest to students. The rhetoric of mental health, rhetoric of sports, and rhetoric of artistic expression all make cameo appearences.
Peer Educators help teach most of my classes. They have taken my classes before and serve as a peer educator to aid the new batch of students in learning the material. This set-up also offers a great context for further mentoring and for the peer educators to speak into my course design as well.