Education
Ph.D. in Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A., 2013
M.A. in Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A., 2010
B.A. in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2003
Biography
Dr. Nien-Tsu (Nancy) Chen received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Communication from the University of Southern California in the U.S.A., and her B.A. in Media and Communications from the University of Melbourne in Australia. She joined CSUCI in Fall 2014, and her teaching and research have focused on health communication, strategic communication and cross-cultural communication.
Representative Courses Taught
- COMM 310 Quantitative Research Methods
- COMM 325 Media Campaigns
- COMM 328 Community-based Storytelling
- COMM 350 Strategic Communication
- COMM 355 Cross-cultural Communication in Health
- COMM 441 Health Communication
- COMM 499 Capstone Project
- UNIV 392 International Experience: Western & Eastern Approaches to Communicating Health & Mental Illness
Scholarship
Keywords
health communication, health psychology, pandemic response, institutional trust, community organizing, civic engagement