Teaching Experience

Instructor, Spring 2008-Present
COMM 420: Research Methods in Advertising & Public Relations

Small course of about 20 students which gives them the opportunity to work through a group project from conceptualization to data collection and analysis.
Course Objectives:
1. Understand how research is practiced in mass media
2. Explore research questions through the appropriate research methods
3. Practice research in an ethical manner
4. Analyze qualitative and quantitative research results
5. Critically evaluate research
6. Effectively write about and present research results

Guest Lecture
COMM 118: Introduction to Media Effects

I have been invited a few times now to speak in this class on the subject of gay and lesbian portrayals in the media.

Student Feedback

The instructor makes everyone feel very confortable and is approachable. She offers help and inquires into the level of student understanding constantly. She cares a great deal about her students and is very interested in their progress. She is willing to help you and pre-check your assignments on her free time, even through e-mail. She is creative in making research tools as exciting, fun, and applicable to life as possible.

I really enjoy the range of examples Anne uses in class. She makes it so anyone can understand it... from Americas Next Top Model to the upcoming election.

She is as enthusiastic as anyone could possibly be while teaching this dry material. She jokes around and she used a variety of media tools. She also breaks up class into different segments of quizes, lecture, and activity, which really helps because it is such a long class.

She is very organized and I can always anticipate what we will learn and do in class ahead of time so I can come prepared. I appreciate that she will update the syllabus if she makes any changes day to day to avoid confusion. I like that she follows the same format in class from day to day with a quiz at the beginning, lecture, questions, and an assignment or group time at the end.

The instructor is constantly offering time for questions and ascertaining if everyone is following her explanations. She also acknowledges when she is not an expert and takes student feedback graciously.

She is the most helpful instructor I have had at Penn State so far. She really cares about her students and goes out of her way to help them and make them feel comfortable asking for help.

This is the first semester that I've had graduate student professors and I feel that Anne has done a very good job. I feel that I am learning the best from my graduate student professors. They are more in tune with our workload as full time students and make their classes worth going to. Anne's class is a great course. I have to admit that I hated research but I am starting to have a growing interest. Anne's love for what she does makes the class even better because she can bring first-hand knowledge to the lecture and provide better examples that we may understand.