Teaching
Finnegan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical criticism, rhetorical theory, American public address, and visual politics. For a decade she served as Director of Oral and Written Communication (CMN 111-112), a general education composition/public speaking course that serves more than 650 first-year students per year. In 2006, she was awarded the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Campus Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from the University of Illinois. Most recently, she was the 2017 recipient of the Faculty Mentoring Award given by the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association.
Graduate Courses
Concepts in Visual Rhetoric (to be taught in Spring 2021)
The Problem of the Public
Visual Politics of U.S. Public Culture
Writing Rhetorical Histories (taught in Spring 2020)
Visual Rhetoric: Extended Case Study of Farm Security Administration Photography
Rhetoric in Context
Rhetorics of Sight, Sound, and Sense
Writing in Graduate School
Picturing Health (developing for Spring 2021 for HCOM program)
The Problem of the Public
Visual Politics of U.S. Public Culture
Writing Rhetorical Histories (taught in Spring 2020)
Visual Rhetoric: Extended Case Study of Farm Security Administration Photography
Rhetoric in Context
Rhetorics of Sight, Sound, and Sense
Writing in Graduate School
Picturing Health (developing for Spring 2021 for HCOM program)
Undergraduate Courses
Visual Politics
Photography and Public Life (taught in Fall 2019)
Rhetorical Criticism
Gender & Rhetoric
History of Photography
Photography and Public Life (taught in Fall 2019)
Rhetorical Criticism
Gender & Rhetoric
History of Photography
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