First-Year Seminar (294-DL-20)

Topic

Your Relationships, Your Self

Instructors

Jen Baker
Jennifer (Jen) Baker’s expertise is in the interdependence of communication theory and practice, where she strives to help others find true confidence in their communication and interaction with others. She is an experienced writer with a background in marketing, corporate communication, and technical writing and has been teaching communication courses for almost 20 years at the University of Texas Austin, University of North Carolina Greensboro, and Northwestern. She founded an inner-city high school speech/debate team, assisted with photography and animation in independent films, and produced a radio show on communication. Baker lives in Evanston IL and is raising two young children, along with her elderly canine. She has been awarded the SPS Distinguished Teaching Award and called the happiest professor that a student has ever known. Baker received her MA in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

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 Materials (Required)

All course materials are available in Canvas.

Class Attributes

Asynchronous:Remote class-no scheduled mtg time