Completed Work

Community/Organizational Change Project

This paper was written in May of 2021 for my Social Work Practice: Organizational and Community class. The learning objective was to focus on a macro-level change. We had to select a target population within a community and research the problems and needs of this group. I had to analyze services available for this target population within the community. We had to identify gaps in services and develop a proposal to address the needs and problems facing this population I then proposed a development of the D.A.R.E. program in the education systems. This paper was targeted toward Dr. Kaczmarowski and the rest of my SOCI241 class.

Tetrad’s Essay

This paper was written in March of 2022 for my Communication Technology Social Change class. The learning objective was to use the work of Marshall McLuhan to write an essay that seeks to better understand a new communication technology. I chose to focus on the Apple Watch. The target audience for this paper was Dr. Glantz and the rest of my COME384 class.

Black Mirror Essay

This paper was written in April of 2022 for my Communication Technology Social Change class. The learning objective was that popular culture texts offer plenty of evidence that our society has some anxiety about technology. We watched and analyzed an episode of Black Mirror for its messages about technology. The specific episode I analyzed was communicating the problem in society of parents using tracking apps to constantly monitor their children and censoring children from real life as well through internet, television and social media. The target audience for this paper was Dr. Glantz and the rest of my COME384 class.

Learning Outcome 1: Answer communication questions using appropriate research methods.

• Interdisciplinary Research Participant Pool Assignment
• TV Market Research Paper
• Mass Communication Final Research
• Tetrad’s Essay

Learning Outcome 2: Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context.

• Portfolio Poster: New Girl Means New Sex Role Perspective? Or Not…
• Translational Final Project
• TV Market Research Paper
• News Release for your Client Paper

Learning Outcome 3: Critically analyze messages.

• Press Conference
• Mass Communication Final Research
• Tetrad Analyze
• Portfolio Poster: New Girl Means New Sex Role Perspective? Or Not…