{"id":45,"date":"2013-11-01T11:54:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T18:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=45"},"modified":"2024-07-15T16:59:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T23:59:51","slug":"katherine-oleson","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/staff\/katherine-oleson\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Medbery Oleson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been teaching at Bellevue College since 2005. I taught part-time for two quarters and then was hired as a full-time faculty member of the Speech Department. In the summer 2008 quarter, we merged the Speech &amp; the Communication Departments into the Communication Studies Department. I am the current chair of the Communication Studies Department, so feel free to ask me any questions about majoring in this field, transferring, courses to take, etc.<br \/>\nI teach a variety of courses in our department, including Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, and Survey of Speech Communication, Communication in a Diverse Workplace, and Introduction to Mass Media in our department at BC. I am passionate about quality relationships and effective communication.<br \/>\nI attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, where I studied Communication Studies and Scandinavian Studies (yes, I speak some Swedish). I moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington for my M.A. in Communication.<br \/>\nI am often reminded of the incredible impact that a group of professors had on my overall college experience and my growth as a person; they invested in me and I am forever grateful. I draw upon those interactions on a regular basis. I value education and hope to pass this on to my students. The most rewarding element of teaching for me is watching students gain confidence in themselves as life-long learners. Each day I receive affirmation of the many joys I find in teaching!<br \/>\nI love seeing the Northwest waterways and mountains every day, as I grew up on a farm in the Midwest (Minnesota\/South Dakota) and we don\u2019t have any mountains to speak of there. I enjoy music, reading, baking, cooking, being outside, and spending quality time with my husband, our young son, and our golden retriever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":279,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-45","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/45\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}