Teaching

Below is a list of courses I have taught across the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University and the College of Philosophy and Human Sciences at the University of Minas Gerais.

Texas Tech University (2023-present)

PCOM 4373 Digital Media and Professional Communication Capstone

The senior capstone for the Digital Media and Professional Communication major. Students produce an integrative professional project applying digital media skills and communication knowledge from across the curriculum, with a focus on career-ready portfolio work.

PCOM 3373 Applied Workplace Communication

Course offered at the Rawls College of Business. Covers written, oral, team, and virtual communication in professional contexts, with audience, purpose, and credibility as the central organizing concepts. Students apply these through real-world scenarios, including collaborative projects with external organizations.

PRSC 4351 International and Multicultural Public Relations

An upper-division course on PR practice across cultural and national contexts. Students work through case studies of transnational campaigns, with attention to how political and cultural environments shape strategy.

MCOM 2350 Communicating in a Global Society

An intercultural communication course examining how cultural and national differences shape communication. Students analyze international media and cross-cultural exchange, developing practical frameworks for professional work across cultural contexts.

MCOM 2310 Business and Professional Communication

A core undergraduate course in oral communication for professional settings. Assignments cover presentations, interviews, and workplace meetings. Students work on audience analysis, message design, and the nonverbal dimensions of professional interaction.

MCOM 2330 Media Literacy

Examines how media messages are produced and interpreted across platforms. The course covers the media industry, digital media, and professional fields including journalism, advertising, and public relations. Satisfies TTU’s core Language, Philosophy, and Culture requirement.

University of Minas Gerais (2020-2022)

COM323 Journalism Capstone (Projetos C - Jornalismo)

A required upper-division course in which students critically analyze communication products using theoretical and empirical frameworks. Methodological experimentation is part of the work. Students engage advanced examples across film, television, radio, and print journalism.

COM319 Hands-on Projects in Journalism (Projetos B II - Jornalismo)

A production course covering advanced journalistic processes with a sustained focus on theory-practice integration. Students develop critical observational skills and study communication products across formats (e.g., film, television, radio, newspapers, and magazines) at an intermediate level.

Addresses contemporary threats to democratic politics (e.g., polarization, fake news, reactive activism, and declining civic norms) through empirical research in political communication. Students study methods for analyzing these phenomena in hybrid media environments, working through cases drawn from journalism, advertising, and public relations.

COM055 Political Communication (Comunicação e Política) - teaching assistant to Dr. Camilo Aggio

An elective course on communication, power, and politics. Topics include propaganda and ideology, the relationship between the political and media spheres, social control through communication, and how conditions for political participation have shifted in contemporary media environments.