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Speech Department

Welcome the TCC Speech Department Home Page.

You can find out more about the following courses here:

Course Descriptions
Sample Syllabus for Speech 100
Sample Syllabus for Speech 101
Sample Syllabus for Speech 110
Sample Syllabus for Speech 120
Our Speech Department Chair, Nikki Poppen, is traveling with a group a students to 
Florence, Italy, this Fall 2000 quarter.  Find out more about their travels here.
 

Full-Time Faculty

Nikki Poppen
Speech 
and Foreign Language Department Chair		 npoppen@tcc.tacoma.ctc.edu
Office:  Building 20, Room 10
Phone:  253-566-5252
 

 
Nikki has been a full-time instructor at TCC since 1995.  She is particularly dedicated to the ways in which culture affects the communication process.  She has studied at TCC’s sister campus of Volny in Pskov, Russian, and will be teaching abroad in Florence, Italy, during Fall 2000.

Nikki enjoys using films and food in class to demonstrate different aspects of communication theory.  She feels that the study of communication is full of practical knowledge anyone and everyone can use the minute they step outside the classroom door.
Debbie Sonandre
Speech		 dsonandr@tcc.tacoma.ctc.edu
Office:  Building 9, Room 34
Phone:  253-566-5241
Debbie received her Bachelor’s degree (Communication and Business) from Washington State University (WAZZU) in May of 1990.  She continued her academic career at Wazzu and received her Master of Arts in Communication in December of 1991.  She started teaching at Whatcom Community College and Tacoma Community College (TCC) in September of 1992.  Since that time she has taught at Bellevue Community College, Clover Park Technical College and South Puget Sound Community College.  Currently she has a tenure-track, full-time position at TCC and is the State Assessment Faculty Liaison for the college. 

Debbie’s current interests are assessment and online learning.  She is working on coordinated studies classes but enjoys spending time revising and updating her current classes.  She created an Interpersonal Communication course for TCC and will be offering the course Spring quarter of 2001.
 Debbie has lived overseas for one year and has visited more than 4 foreign countries and over 18 states during her travels.  She enjoys gardening, fishing, hiking and reading but most of all spending time with her family. 

 Part-Time Faculty

Harjit Dosanjh Office:  Building 12, Room  23
Phone:  253-566-5310
Wes Eagleson Office:  Building 12, Room 23
Phone:  253-566-5310
Mike Venuto Office:  Building 12, Room 23
Phone:  253-566-5310

To contact an instructor who does not have email, you may email the appropriate building secretary:
 

Building 9  dlewis@tcc.tacoma.ctc.edu
Building 12  tmcclain@tcc.tacoma.ctc.edu
Building 20  lthorson@tcc.tacoma.ctc.edu

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