New Courses Communication Program Coordinator, Dr. Matt Sharp, taught Media Literacy (COM 180) for the first time during the Spring 2023 semester. This course prepares Communication majors to navigate our media-saturated culture effectively. “Professional communicators produce all kinds of media artifacts and those artifacts can have lasting effects on audiences and our larger society,” Sharp said. “Being a critical media consumer is a vital foundation for becoming an ethical yet effective media producer. That’s why we made COM 180 the foundational course in the COM program.” Research Project in Industrial Mathematics (MA 390) is a new Data Science course that partners students with industry mentors. This project-based course designed by Dr. Mihhail Berezovski, provides students with valuable hands-on learning. Beginning as an experimental course and now offered each spring, MA 390 has been instrumental in preparing students to qualify for internships and jobs.
CTLE Internal Grants Associate Professor Emad Hamdeh and Visiting Instructor Kristen Strickhouser were awarded CTLE Course Design grants for their respective courses, “Arabic in Hybrid: Language Reinforcement Strategies” and “Themes in Humanities with Robots: What Makes Us Human.” In addition, Instructor Matthew Brenneman and Professor Greg Spradlin received grants to improve student learning in mathematics by implementing innovative teaching strategies.
Fall 2022 “Best Course Design” Contest For the second year in a row, COAS faculty dominated the IT Department’s “Best Course Design” contest. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Tess St. John, was crowned the Daytona Beach Fall 2022 contest winner. St. John notes that training during COVID helped her realize that she could improve her Canvas site to make it more accessible and compelling. Her students clearly appreciate those efforts. Engineering Physics sophomore Brooke Zinkes said that she loves the site because she can find everything easily. Zinkes added that the materials were not “all just straight down facts but included fun stuff like memes and jokes.” In addition to the winning St. John, Drs. Tanya Darlington and Dr. Matt Sharp , both from the Humanities and Communication Department, were among five Daytona Beach finalists.
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