Professor Murphy Summary

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Professor Murphy teaches a course entitled Dynamics of Communication in Union County College which focuses on communication as a process and human relationships. He has double major in Speech Communication and Theatre. He is approachable, open-minded, encouraging, helpful, and forthright. He taught the Dynamics of Communication course extraordinarily well and he truly captured the “dynamics” of communication. I have never experienced a professor who entirely maximized the fifty-five minutes of class that involved multiple activities such as conducting interviews, delivering speeches, group and partner discussions, changing of seats, skits, and many more. In addition, the professor showed and explained various PowerPoint presentations, videos,

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