DrCaroline James-Garrod

Teaching Fellow

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts

  • Teaching Fellow
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING EXPERTISE

My teaching experiences include undergraduate and postgraduate studies of communication, digital and social media, journalism, public relations, philosophy, as well as creative arts internship and employabilty units.

 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT CHAIR
    AWL201 Communication and Persuasive Presentation
    1 Mar 2026 - 30 Jun 2026
    Unit chair, teacher and marker of dynamic second-year Employability Sequence Unit. Lead a team of five teachers and markers, taught three weekly AWL201 seminar classes including the online class group, while overseeing moderation and administration for a cohort of 197 students. Energetic approach to supporting students from myriad disciplinary interest fields, as they discovered a plethora of theories and practices of persuasive presentation and effective communication.
  • UNIT CHAIR
    ALJ716 Writing the News
    1 Nov 2025 - 28 Feb 2026
    Unit chair, teacher and marker of this master's level journalism unit. Focused on teaching and supporting a diverse cohort of domestic and international students as they learn and apply fundamental skills in writing and researching news reports and human interest features.
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    AWL201 Communication and Persuasive Presentation
    29 Jul 2026 - 29 Oct 2026
    Teaching three seminar group each week including two on-campus at Burwood and one online.
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALJ331 Developing a Journalism Portfolio (2)
    1 Jul 2026 - 29 Oct 2026
    Teaching three weekly seminar groups the fundamentals of local journalism reporting, including two on-campus at Burwood and one online.
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALJ330 Developing a Journalism Portfolio (1)
    2 Mar 2026 - 29 Jun 2026
    Taught two weekly Burwood on-campus seminar groups including a diverse cohort of interdisciplinary students, the fundamentals of general news and feature reporting and how to establish a professional digital journalism portfolio.
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ACC700 Communication and Creative Arts Internship
    1 Nov 2025 - 28 Feb 2026
    Unit Chair of postgraduate / undergraduate work-integrated learning unit.
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALM216 Social Media Strategy
    29 Jul 2025 - 29 Oct 2025
    Assisted T2 Unit Chair and teachers of this popular Bachelor of Communication unit by marking 20 students' assessments.
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ACC100 Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Communication in Everyday Life
    29 Mar 2023 - 29 Oct 2023
    Taught weekly seminars and marked assessments spanning T1 and T2 for this first-year undergraduate unit studied by communication, arts, digital marketing, and media students.