Social media and social networking have become a common communication tool in contemporary society.  This proposed class will focus on how individuals use social media to establish, maintain, and (possibly) end interpersonal relationships using social media .  I am to teach students ways to create clear and ethical digital messages, use effective self-disclosure, improve their communication privacy management tactics, and understand the benefits and dangers of digital message storage.  These lessons may be used to create trusting relationships with others and learn to manage relational turbulence if/when that trust is violated.  I believe these skills are especially useful for incoming students as they learn to manage relationships with friends, professors, employers, co-workers, and others.  Students will use Porter Henderson Library databases to find contemporary computer-mediated communication, interpersonal communication, and organizational communication research to learn about this topic.  Students will also be required to write brief journal assignments throughout the semester.  The goal of these journal assignments is to correct research with the daily lives and common communication tactics of the students.  

This class, you will learn about yourself and the facilities available to you at ASU.  You will begin to find ways to match your interests to a career and align your studies at ASU to match that career.  The immediate goal of this course is to gain clarity about your choice of major. 

The purpose of this class is to provide tools and experiences to help students make progress in their personal career development. This is a hands on class. Students will be required to complete assessments, attend career development programs and speak to professionals in the career field of the student’s choice. 

This course will introduce students to the recent history of the People’s Republic of China (1949-present) through the discussion of current events, short readings (such as journalistic pieces and short primary sources from the time period under study), and film (such as Wilson Yip’s martial arts film Ip Man and Zhang Yimou’s dramatic film To Live). Topics will include the Chinese Civil War, the early years of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Cultural Revolution, the reforms of the 1970s and 1980s, the Tiananmen Square Massacre, China’s rise to being a world power in the early twenty-first century, and some of the major controversies of recent years. Students will also learn how to utilize important university services such as the library and the Writing Center and will learn strategies for success at college including note-taking, communicating wit h professors, and time management. Assessments will include participation/attendance, a weekly reflection journal (with entries about course content, current events, and college skills), and a short capstone paper (~2 pages) in which students utilize library databases such as Gale Virtual Reference Library.