Education

Beijing Language and Culture University (China)

Intensive Mandarin – Upper Intermediate

Date of completion: August 2008

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts, Public Health

Date of completion: May 2006

Bachelor of Arts, Mass Communications

Date of completion: May 2006

Piedmont Hills High School

High School Diploma (San Jose, CA)

Date of completion: June 2002

Coursework

Bachelor of Arts, Public Health

* Health Policy and Management

Introduction to health policy making and health care organizations in the United States. Concepts include public policy, economics organizational behavior, and political science. Historical look at issues in U.S. health policy and present organization of U.S. health care system.

* Epidemiology & Human Diseases

Epidemiological methods and epidemiology of diseases and conditions of current public health important in United States and internationally. Focus on critical reading and interpretation of published studies in humans.

* Probability and Statistics in Public Health

Descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation, and regression with biomedical applications.

* Environmental Health Sciences

Introduction to major human and natural activities that lead to release of hazardous materials into environment. Explored links between chemical, physical, and biological hazards in environment and impact on human health. Covered basic principles of toxicology, including dose-response relationships, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of chemicals.

Topics in Human Sexuality

Evolutionary perspective on basis of human mating behavior. Topics in human sexuality, with examples taken from art, sociology, anatomy, anthropology, physiology, contemporary politics, and history to explore human sexual behavior and reproduction in culture.

City & Regional Planning Internship

Weekly seminars and training sessions that featured guest speakers from local and state agencies. Course taken in tandem with 15-hour per week internship in a local organization.

Anatomy

Concepts, issues, and practical approaches to analysis of design in living and fossil organisms. Covered fundamental questions and techniques of eight approaches to study of structural diversity.

Physiology

Mechanisms by which key physiological priorities are maintained in healthy humans. Covered homeostasis of cellular composition, structure, energy metabolism, neural and endocrine signaling, and major human systems.

Bachelor of Arts, Mass Communications

* Structure of Mass Communications

Analysis of contemporary structures of mass communications, primarily in capitalist societies, with historical background on the popular press, radio, and television. The organization of news and entertainment. Comparison with other societies.

* Effects of Mass Media

Introduction to the study of communication effects, alternative analytic models, the effects of television, and the effects of mass media exposure on attitude change.

* Mass Communications Research & Methods

Review of primary research methods used in field. Quantitative and qualitative methods, including survey research, content analysis, ethnographic and textual approaches. Conducted 5 research project in span of 15 weeks on topic of drug use in film.

* Media Law & Ethics (J-school Graduate-level)

Underpinnings of the First Amendment and media law, including libel and slander, privacy, free press/fair trial conflicts, and litigation arising from controversial reporting methods. Second half of course focuses on ethical dilemmas faced be reporters and editors. Use of case studies and readings to examine murkier conflicts in difficult newsroom decision-making.

Mass Media & Society

Introduction to the study of communication effects, alternative analytic models, the effects of television, and the effects of mass media exposure on attitude change.

International Media

Case studies of foreign mass media. Focus on press and publishing, broadcasting, documentaries, and new media.

Cultural History of Advertising

Introduction to the history of advertising and the roots of consumer culture in the United States. Present contrasting approaches to study of advertising and analysis of advertising themes and images.

Sociolinguistics

Principles and methods of sociolinguistics. Covered linguistic pragmatics, variation theory, social and regional dialectology, and oral styles.

Social and Cultural Change

Focused on meaning of citizenship in global sphere. Western theories of evolutionary and revolutionary change. Considered forms of consciousness and culture generated by colonial encounter, agrarian transition, industrialization, emigration, and impact of cosmopolitan culture on non-Western societies.

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