Science Communication Courses

Teaching Science Communication Courses: In addition to teaching a host of trainings and workshops , I am on faculty at the University of Wyoming. Below, you can find the syllabus for each scicomm course I have taught.

Fall 2022: Lead instructor, course designer, ZOO 4100+4101: Scientific Communication, Zoology & Physiology Department, University of Wyoming (syllabus will be posted at the end of the semester)

Spring 2022: Lead instructor, course designer, ZOO 5680-13: Applied Principles of Science Communication with ZOO 4100+4101: Scientific Communication, Zoology & Physiology Department, University of Wyoming (syllabus)

Fall 2021: Lead instructor, course designer, ZOO 4100+4101: Scientific Communication, Zoology & Physiology Department, University of Wyoming (syllabus)

Spring 2021: Lead instructor, course designer, ECOL 5620-04/5890-08: Science of Science Communication, Program in Ecology (interdisciplinary doctoral program) and Zoology & Physiology Department, University of Wyoming (syllabus)

Fall 2020: Lead instructor, co-designer, ZOO-5890-07: JEDI in STEM Graduate Seminar, Zoology & Physiology Department, University of Wyoming (syllabus). Course also offered in S21, F21; served as advising instructor while postdocs led in-course facilitation in these subsequent semesters.

Spring 2020: Lead instructor, course designer, ECOL 5620-01: Creative Approaches to Writing About Science, Program in Ecology (interdisciplinary doctoral program), University of Wyoming (syllabus)

Spring 2019: Lead instructor, co-course designer, ZOO 4100-2: Communicating Science, Zoology & Physiology Department, University of Wyoming (syllabus)

Spring 2019: Co-instructor, co-course designer, ZOO 4100: The Art and Science of Field Notes and Metadata, Zoology & Physiology Department, University of Wyoming. Cross-listed with Botany, Ecology, Geology, and Ecosystem Sciences and Management. (course flyer; syllabus)

Fall 2018: Lead Instructor, course designer, ZOO 5890-4: Visualizing Science, Zoology & Physiology Department, University of Wyoming (syllabus; public website featuring student work)

Fall 2017: Lead Instructor, primary course designer, ZOO 5890-4: The Art of Science Communication, Zoology & Physiology Department, University of Wyoming.

University of Wyoming press release about our students’ collaboration with the Laramie Mural Project and the Laramie Public Art Coalition.

Laramie Boomerang feature article about one of the students, which resulted from our course unit on scientists interacting with the media.

Syllabus; public website featuring student work

Spring 2017: Lead Instructor, lead course designer, ERS 2500: Writing Across Topics in Energy; School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming. View a University of Wyoming press release about our students’ collaboration with the University of Wyoming Art Museum. (syllabus; public website featuring student work)

Spring 2016: Lead Instructor, ERS 2500: Writing Across Topics in Energy; School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming (syllabus)

Fall 2015: Instructor of Record, ENGL 1010-30: Composition and Rhetoric; English Department, University of Wyoming (syllabus)