Emmy J. Min

In the MAT@USC program, Emmy J. Min teaches a number of courses including Human Differences both online and on campus. Previously, Dr. Min taught a course on Education and a Diverse Society at UC Riverside. For two years, she also worked as a faculty member in the General Studies Department at Kyunghee University in South Korea. During this period, she taught courses, coordinated the English writing program and co-developed the content for the new on-line English as Foreign Language program. Prior to her career in higher education, she also worked as a high school teacher at Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies (HAFS). Dr. Min earned a Bachelors degree from the University of California, Irvine with major in Social Science and holds a Masters degree in Communication Management from the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Dr. Min received her Ph.D in Education from the University of California, Riverside.

Dr. Min’s research interests include the issues of social and cultural capital, gender, language and online learning as they relate to the education of English language learning and ethnic minority students. She is also interested in educational issues of Asian-American students and educational issues in different regions of the world. She recently completed a research project that examined how culture, language and gender influence the teacher-student relationships in one high school in South Korea. Dr. Min has given presentations in many academic conferences including Association for the Advancement in Computing in Education (AACE).