Ragan Glover

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Teaching

I have been teaching more than a decade with experience teaching both undergraduate and graduate students. I most often teach courses about how emerging and early media impact communication. I also teach undergraduate and graduate courses about research.

Approach:

  • Active, Experience-based learning: In my classroom, students are engaged in their learning through activities that ask them to think, discuss, and make.
  • Student Centered. I design my courses with recognition that students’ backgrounds and experiences shape how they encounter the classroom. I continuously evaluate my teaching materials and approach to ensure that students have equitable entry into and possibilities for participation within the space of the classroom.
  • Opportunities for Safe Risks. I scaffold and create low-stakes assignments so students feel safe to experiment with new conceptual frames and engage with new platforms and practices.
  • Experiential Learning. I actively support students in connecting their learning to real world issues and professional contexts.
  • Science Communication board game
    Science Communication board game
  • The MRADS research symposium, in which 115 of my students presented their research
    The MRADS research symposium, in which 115 of my students presented their research
  • A student's zine to explain their research
    A student’s zine to explain their research
  • Students learning about the history of mobile games in COM 477: mobile communication
    Students learning about the history of mobile games in COM 477: mobile communication

Select Courses Taught

  • Intro to Media and Communication (undegraduate)
  • Digital Communication (PhD/Master’s seminar)
  • Mobile Media & Communication (undegraduate)
  • Qualitative Research Methods (Master’s seminar)
  • Introduction to Research (undergraduate)
  • Critical Approaches to Research and Communication (undergraduate)

Curriculum Development: I also have experience with curriculum development. Notably, I led the design of a new major in Communication and Media at Methodist University, a process that consolidated four degrees and eleven low-enrollment minors; revised existing courses to reflect current knowledge in the field; and created new courses to strengthen career and graduate-school readiness.

In my current role at the University of Michigan, I developed a new course, “Critical Approaches to Research and Communication.” Previously, I served as Chair of the Games Studies Degree Exploratory Committee (2023–2024, UTSA) and as Secretary of the Curriculum Committee (2022–2023, Methodist University). In 2016, I received a $2,500 MAESTRO Curriculum Development Grant to develop an online first-year English course at CSU Pueblo.