First-Year Seminar (294-DL-20)

Instructors

Jennifer Lindsy Baker
Jen Baker has been teaching communication studies courses for 10 years, specifically relational communication, group communication, and business communication. She has degrees in Advertising, English, and Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. While living in Austin, Jen worked at a marketing company, was a technical writer for an engineering company, produced a radio show on relational communication, "Love, Sex, and Why we Bother," and founded an inner-city high school speech/debate team. She also taught classes for the University of Texas, before moving into a position lecturing and advising at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Currently, she is an adjunct lecturer for the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University. On a final note, teaching is Jen's first love, as evidenced by being called the happiest professor that a student has ever known.

Meeting Info

Online: TBA

Overview of class

This course examines aspects of all of our relationships - personal, professional, and everything in between, and how what we say and do are reflections of ourselves. We will explore self-concept and identity; self-disclosure; talking with strangers; authenticity; relationship maintenance; virtual relationships, among other issues to see how we change and evolve into our (hopefully) true selves over our lifetime. This course will include regular, short writing assignments that will culminate in a written final project.

The course is conducted completely online. A technology fee will be added to tuition.

Class Attributes

Asynchronous:Remote class-no scheduled mtg time