Janelle Ward, PhD

Assistant Professor

Teaching

During the 2009-2010 academic year, I have taught the following courses at Erasmus University Rotterdam:

• Communication Technologies and their Impacts (course for the minor in Media, Culture & Society)
  
• Cultural Influences on Communication
• Research Design
• MA Thesis Class
  
• Media and Politics
• Communication Technologies and their Impacts (IBCoM course)

During the 2008-2009 academic year, I taught the following courses at Erasmus University Rotterdam:

• Communication Technology and its Impacts
• Cultural Influences on Communication
• Research Workshop: New Media and Politics
• Methods of Research
• Research Seminar Media: South Park

From 2004-2008 I taught a number of classes at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS) at the University of Amsterdam. These courses included Communication & Society, a general communication theory course for undergraduate students and MA-prep students; Introduction to Research Methodology, an intensive summer course for newly-accepted MA students; and New Media, Politics, and Youth, an undergraduate seminar that followed my PhD research interests. In the fall of 2008 I also created and taught a course entitled The Media and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign.