Department Faculty
Full-time faculty include:
Dan Fox: dfox@mpc.edu
Instructor for all Speech courses; currently serving as the Speech department chair; teaches five sections, including 3 to 4 different courses; M.S. and Ph.D. in Speech Communication.
Diane Boynton: dboynton@mpc.edu
Instructor for all Speech courses; currently serving as Humanities Division Chair; past Speech Department chair; M.A. in Speech Communication; currently teaching one section of Public Speaking.
Part-time faculty include:
Molly May: mmay@mpc.edu
Instructor for Public Speaking; currently teaching one section of Public Speaking; full-time ESL instructor at MPC; M.A. in Teaching English as Second or Other Language; widely traveled; currently teaching one section of Public Speaking.
Karen Schmidt: schmidt.karen@earthlink.net
Instructor for all Speech courses; Ph.D. and MA in Communication; currently teaching two sections of Small Group communication and one section of public speaking.
Ron Triplett: rontriplett@yahoo.com
Instructor for Interpersonal Communication; MA Clinical Psychology, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; currently teaching one section of Interpersonal Communication.
Pat Roberts: proberts@redshift.com
Instructor for Public Speaking and Argumentation; Speech teacher and Forensics coach at Seaside High School; BA in Social Science and California Secondary Teaching Credential; currently teaching one section of Public Speaking and one section of Argumentation.
Allston James: ajames@mpc.edu
Instructor for Mass Media Communication; full-time English Instructor at MPC; MA in Communications; his writing has appeared in numerous national and regional publications; currently teaching one section of Media Mass Communication.
Additional summer faculty include:
Kathy Oxendine: kathox@cpros.com
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Speech Communication at MPC
The Speech department has decided that a change of name is in order, for professional and practical reasons. The Speech department will be known as Speech Communication. Current trends in the development of our discipline, such as the study of human communication in a breadth of areas beyond public speaking, the confusion of “speech†with “speech pathology,†and the unique differences between mass communications and human communication studies, point to a need for greater specificity in the title of our department. |