Courses Taught • Primary Instructor
Public Speaking for Business
BUSD 2360 • NorQuest College
Winter 2025, Spring 2025
This course will explore basic techniques of oral communication and public speaking with an emphasis on speech construction and delivery. Through this course, students will learn to develop presentations and deliver them to different audiences. Students will also learn to deliver business proposal presentations and pitches, and apply public speaking skills for communication with stakeholders.
Intercultural Communication Skills
PCOM 0105 • MacEwan University
Winter 2025
Intercultural Communication Skills delves into the richness of multiculturalism, highlighting how diverse backgrounds, experiences , and cultures intersect daily, broadening our perspectives. Diversity is woven into the fabric of our communities and daily lives.
By studying culture, learners are encouraged to embrace their own cultural identities and acquire the skills needed to communicate effectively, utilizing strategies and tools that promote inclusivity and equity.
Business Writing II
PCOM 0102 • MacEwan University
Winter 2025
The Business Writing II course builds learners’ practical skills for writing effective business documents for the Canadian workplace to ensure successful composition of letters, emails, and reports.
In this course, learners will develop skills in writing positive, negative, and persuasive messages. They will also reinforce the skills acquired from PCOM 0101 (prerequisite) in planning, creating, and revising stages in writing. This course further enhances their use of formal English.
Race and Racism in the Modern World
ANTH 103 • Portage College
Fall 2022
This course gives an anthropological perspective on how the concept of race has been used to understand biological and cultural variation among humans. Issues and topics discussed will include multiculturalism, ethnic identity, prejudice, ethnocentrism, racism, eugenics and the persistence of ethnic identity in the face of globalization. Case studies from different parts of the world will be used to illustrate these concepts, including current issues of interest in Canada.
Gender, Age, and Culture
ANTHR 110 • MacEwan University
Winter 2022, Summer 2022
This course examines sex, gender, and age distinctions from a biological and cross-cultural perspective. It examines how societies organize sexual differences and what it means to be a man or a woman in different cultures. The course considers the impact of sex, gender and age differences as crucial aspects of social organization and structure in the daily life of the human species.
Human Evolution
ANTHRO 104 • University of the Philippines Baguio
AY 2020 - 2021
This course provides an introduction to biological anthropology through an overview of human evolution, adaptation, and physical variation. Human evolution will be approached through the current evidence from studies of fossil and modern primates. Human adaptation will be treated by looking at biological and behavioural responses to environmental stresses in living and archaeological populations. Other topics of discussion will include the history and principles of evolutionary theory, the techniques used to reconstruct the appearance and behaviour of past populations from excavated remains, and human skeletal anatomy.
General Anthropology
ANTHRO 100 • University of the Philippines Baguio
AY 2021 - 2022
Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 1000 • NorQuest College
Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
This general introduction course to anthropology presents central concepts and key issues in the four main subfields—archaeology and biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology. Topics include evolutionary theory, human evolution and diversity, culture change, social organization, and symbolic systems. Students will explore broadly the question of what it means to be human.
Scientific & Technical Writing
BUSD 2360 • NorQuest College
Fall 2024, Winter 2025
This technical writing course prepares students with the skills required for writing in a professional setting. Students will learn to produce documents reflecting different styles of technical communication such as technical descriptions, proposals, reports, web pages, and instructional manuals. Students will also learn how to organize information effectively, write in a clear, concise style, rigorously edit their writing, and format and cite sources using APA style. Effective document design and use of graphic elements are also examined. Students will be required to deliver oral presentations.
Communication in the Digital Workplace & Technology Career Development
XBUS 1515 • NorQuest College
Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Winter 2025
*This course is part of the Upskilling for Data Analytics and Business Intelligence for Autistic Individuals
This course focuses on employability and interpersonal skills for success in gaining and retaining employment in the digital workplace. Topics include transferable professional skills, work-life balance, communication skills, business writing, teamwork and collaboration, and receiving feedback in the workplace. Students will develop strategies for effective workplace communication, developing workplace self-advocacy tools to ensure communication with their employer focused on equity, productivity, and accommodation.
Courses Taught • Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
ANTHR 207 • University of Alberta
Fall 2017
Comparative study of human society and culture, particularly non-Western communities, with special attention to the family, social structure, economics and political institutions, and religion; processes of change.
Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
ANTHR 208 • University of Alberta
Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
The anthropological study of language and communication. A brief survey of field and analytical methods and theory of linguistic anthropology.
Health and Healing
ANTHR 393 • University of Alberta
Winter 2020
A cross-cultural study through time of the beliefs and social activities associate with health, illness, and healing.