Freelance Writing For Publication (2024): Tish Hamilton; this allowed me to focus on magazine writing. We learned how to make proposals and how to make engaging but timely content.

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Exploring The Narrative (2024): Dani Chuatico; this was a Sequential Art class focused on scriptwriting. It taught me a lot about framing narrative for other sources of media and what the most essential details of scene-setting were.

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Writing For Digital Communication (2023): Tish Hamilton; the class focused on digital storytelling and how to be successful with SEO practices and creating aesthetically pleasing material.

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Professional Writing For Business Applications (2022): Andrea Goto; the class focused on business writing and composition. Including emails, social media, white papers, and business proposals. 

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The Publishing Process (2022): Andrea Goto; An intensive look at how to create a proposal for publishing. Included how to make a CV, building relevant experience, and marketing the author as the person to write the book.

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History of Rhetoric (2022): Paige Hall; Studied the components of English rhetoric, including how it is used in mass culture. Specifically how it is used to send messages and the kind of rhetoric that surrounds the mass media.

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Visitor Experience Design in Museums (2020): Dawn Scher Thomae; the components of visitor experience in museums including the production, design, and development of exhibits, evaluation, the development of education and public programs, interpretive strategies, visitor studies, marketing strategies, and social media engagement. Incorporated projects for creating and developing an exhibit, collaborative team evaluation, visitor journey mapping, exhibition review, and creating a virtual portfolio.

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Colloquium: Originals and Copies (2020): Derek Counts; the study and problems of Roman copies of Greek originals, and the theories behind studying Roman and Greek sculpture from ancient source texts to modern theory. Included a sculpture brief on a Greek original and a project on a piece believed to be a Roman copy. 

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Museum Collections Management and Curation (2019): Jackie Schweitzer; learned how to manage and curate collections including evaluating collections, the process of creating and the importance of collections management ethics, policies, and procedures, writing object descriptions and condition reports, creating object labels, collection safety, object handling, environmental monitoring, pest monitoring, the process of acquiring, accessioning/deaccessioning, and loaning collections, risk management, and disaster planning. Also incorporated an object project to research, document, and present findings on an object from the collection. 

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Who Owns the Past? (2019): Bettina Arnold; the social and political ramifications of the interpretation, presentation, conservation, and study of the archaeological past and the institutions involved in these pursuits. The course was broken into five main topics including Fantastic Archaeology, The Politics of the Past, Bones of Contention: Repatriation and Reburial, Looting, Collection & Legislation, and Presenting the Past. Incorporated an academic paper and presentation on one of the aspects of these five topics.

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Administration and Organization of Museums (2019): Sara Pfannkuche; governance and management of museums. Created a structure for a new museum as well as researched and created a strategic plan for a historical site belonging to a current museum. 

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History and Theory of Museums (2018): Dawn Scher Thomae; Basic foundation in all aspects of museums including history, governance, ethics, collections, exhibits, education, technology, and marketing. Also gained basic skills in visitor observation and assessment, as well as the basics of writing a grant proposal.

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Advanced Creative Writing: The Graphic Novel (2018): Ashley McWaters; broad survey of graphic novels as an exploration of the way that the visual and the verbal has a dynamic relationship, learning how to use techniques in graphic novels to construct projects including these elements and how color, image, design, and word interact. Included a project to construct a ten page graphic comic.

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Roman Religion (2017): Kirk Summers; the study of Roman religion through art and iconography. Involved a project to study an art piece from a museum from an art history perspective and presenting the findings to the class. 

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Anthropology and Cemeteries (2017): Ian Brown; study of cemeteries and mortuary practices. Incorporated visits to cemeteries and a study of the patterns visible in a local cemetery. Also incorporated a paper on an aspect of mortuary practices based on individual interests. 

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Greek and Roman Mythology (2015): Kirk Summers; broad survey of Greek and Roman Myths. Incorporated learning how to identify figures and stories from iconography.