Rate My Professor Christy Seifert

Christine Seifert is a Professor of Communication at Westminster College of Salt Lake City, where she has served as full-time faculty since joining the communication department in the summer of 2005 following the completion of her PhD dissertation. She earned her PhD in English with an emphasis in rhetoric and composition and professional writing from Oklahoma State University in 2005, her MA in English from North Dakota State University in 2000, and her BS in political science from North Dakota State University in 1997. Prior to her appointment at Westminster, Seifert taught at Salt Lake Community College while pursuing her doctorate, which focused on a rhetorical analysis of countermovements such as creationism and global-warming denial. Since 2013, she has taught in the competency-based Master of Strategic Communication program, which she directs, advocating for mentored teaching, competency-based education, and collaborative learning to foster students' independent problem-solving skills. Her teaching areas include rhetoric and persuasion, professional writing and communication, and self-directed and online learning.