I teach a variety of courses, within the School of Journalism & Mass Communication, as well as in the Environmental Studies Program. My main interests are science writing, environmental reporting, and how environmental science and policy are covered in the news media.

On the graduate level, I teach Science Writing, the introductory course for SJMC students pursuing our environmental journalism emphasis. This course is offered in the fall semester to incoming environmental journalism master's students. It is a prerequisite for students going on to take Reporting on the Environment in the spring. It is also part of the university-wide Graduate Certificate in Environment, Policy & Society.

On the undergraduate level, I teach Science & Environmental Journalism, which is cross-listed with an Environmental Studies course titled Critical Thinking in ENVS. In this class, journalism and environmental studies students typically examine a global environmental issue in depth, with journalistic-style writing assignments based on in-class presentations and field trips.

As part of the Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism, I co-lead a weekly seminar for five working mid-career journalists who spend the academic year with us at the CEJ.

Outside of the environmental area, I teach Reporting 3 & Newsgathering 2 within the SJMC. As part of these courses, students participate in internships at news organizations in Colorado and beyond. And within the graduate program I advise students completing professional projects and master's theses. For students in the newsgathering program, the professional project substitutes for a thesis.

In previous years I have also taught Magazine & Feature Writing and News Editing within the SJMC, and Carbon, Climate and Society as part of an interdisciplinary program of the same name funded by the National Science Foundation.