This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through
your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor
for this course will be
Laurel Bragstad.
Laurel Bragstad combines her understanding of communication theory and practical experience in shaping courses that appeal to students of all ages. With a Master of Arts degree in interpersonal communication and rhetoric, she enjoys teaching undergraduate courses in interpersonal communication, public speaking, journalism, public speaking, persuasion, and theory and research. She also helped design and taught a course in instructional design for graduate students. Her real-life examples help students of all ages grasp any course content and feel confident about using what they have learned. Laurel has written several articles for "ETC: The Journal for the International Society of General Semantics" and had one of those reprinted in "Classroom Exercises for General Semantics," a book published by the Society. She has designed summer seminars in interpersonal, gender and intercultural communication including a study trip to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. She's managed the writing and production of a college magazine and newspaper, and has just begun assembling the memoirs of her elderly cousin.