My teaching emphasizes connecting concepts in classrooms and students' daily lives in broad social scenarios, because for me there is no point in dumping theories on students if they can't use them on a daily basis. Such a philosophy is based on my understanding of learning in general, and the specificities of communication and media studies in particular as we are deeply immersed in the media environment.
By far, I have taught three different courses across a range of subjects and levels.
Qualitative Communication Methods
Digital media, Markets, and Policy
Social Aspects of Media
By far, I have taught three different courses across a range of subjects and levels.
Qualitative Communication Methods
- A lower-level compulsory class for undergraduate students majoring in Communications and New Media;
- It covers a wide range of topics and methods germane to qualitative research, for example, what is qualitative research? how does qualitative methodology differ from quantitative methodology? Where does research get started? How to analyze texts? What is visual analysis? How to conduct semi-structured interviews? How to conduct fieldwork? What are ethical challenges in qualitative research?
- I taught lectures for 120-150 students, led a TA team, and taught some tutorial sessions;
- My tutorial class is designed as experiential as students will engage in a variety of fun activities in their methodology journey. For example, we will conduct mini-fieldwork in hawker centers, or we will design slogans for bubble tea shops.
Digital media, Markets, and Policy
- A selective seminar for postgraduate students majoring in Global Communications;
- It covers a wide range of topics relevant to the current political -economic landscape of digital media, for example, digital surveillance, data journalism, tech and work, influencer industry, and biases/values behind AI, etc;
- Also a hands-on class that teaches how to write policy memos;
- Discussion-based seminar that incorporates multiple teaching pedagogies, such as running debates, peer reviews, panel discussions, and research colloquium.
Social Aspects of Media
- A compulsory seminar for upper-level undergraduate students majoring in media studies;
- It covers a wide range of topics and methods relevant to media studies, including media effect, gender&media, youth&media, race&media, journalism, survey, experiment, content analysis, interviews, etc;
- Also a hands-on class that teaches how to write policy recommendations.