{"id":137,"date":"2014-02-14T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T22:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=137"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:05:00","slug":"katherine-oleson","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/staff\/katherine-oleson\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Medbery-Oleson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings! I\u2019m Katherine Medbery-Oleson. I have been teaching at Bellevue College since 2005. I primarily teach Public Speaking and Survey of Speech Communication in 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.<\/p>\n<p>I attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, where I studied Communication Studies and Scandinavian Studies. I moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington for my M.A. in Communication. I am particularly interested in rhetorical studies and argumentation in print advertisements. I am also fascinated by political rhetoric and the media coverage of elections and politics in general.<\/p>\n<p>My husband &amp; I live in Des Moines, a few blocks up from the Puget Sound. I love seeing the Northwest waterways and mountains every day, as I grew up in the Midwest (MN\/SD) and we don\u2019t have any mountains to speak of. We have two golden retrievers, Cosmo and Seven, who are both named after \u201cSeinfeld\u201d references. I enjoy being outdoors with them (even in the rain).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":124,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-137","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/137\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/ids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}