{"id":19315,"date":"2026-07-27T14:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/?page_id=19315"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:06:18","slug":"tammy-swenson-lepper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/colleges\/liberal-arts\/communication-media-department\/communication-media-faculty-staff\/tammy-swenson-lepper\/","title":{"rendered":"Tammy Swenson Lepper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">View Tammy\u2019s&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/winona.academia.edu\/TammySwensonLepper\" target=\"_blank\">full academic profile<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tammy-swenson-lepper-5371651a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tammy serves as Internship Director in Communication &amp; Media and as a faculty liaison for the Individualized Studies program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PhD: Speech Communication | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MA: Speech Communication | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BA: Speech Communication and English | Concordia College, Moorhead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal Statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I joined the faculty at Winona State University in&nbsp;Fall 2004. Prior to teaching at WSU, I taught at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida, for several years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are probably wondering how I got from Florida to Minnesota. I grew up on a small potato and grain farm in northwestern Minnesota (30 miles from Canada and 20 miles from North Dakota) and went to college at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. I pursued my master\u2019s degree and PhD at the University of Minnesota, where I met my husband, who was in the Navy ROTC program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his 11 years of active duty as a Navy helicopter pilot, we lived in the Twin Cities, San Diego, CA, and Pensacola, FL. He is currently a pilot and the Aviation Training Manager for Mayo One in Rochester. We have two daughters, Hannah and Rachel, and a dog named Aggie.<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At WSU, I teach a variety of courses including Health Communication, Organizational Communication, Small Group Communication, Communication Ethics and Diversity, Communication Ethics in a Networked World, Research Methods, Intro to Speech Communication, and a bunch of others. I most enjoy teaching courses where students can actively engage with the material we are studying.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I particularly enjoy serving as the Internship Director for the Communication &amp; Media Department. In that role, I have supervised over 120 student internships in a wide variety of workplaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a scholar, I am most interested in communication ethics. I want to know how we can be effective communicators, while also considering the effects of our communication on others. Most of my published work is about ethical sensitivity (the ability to perceive ethical issues) in communication situations, with other publications about the use of service-learning in communication studies courses.<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses Taught<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CMST 192: Introduction to Effective Communication&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CMST 195: Nonverbal Communication: Communicating without Words&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CMST 366: Communicating in Organizations&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CMST 371: Creating Effective Groups &amp; Teams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CMST 399: Internship&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CMST 425: Health Communication: Unpacking the Complexities of Care&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CMST 451: Topics in Communication Studies&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CMST 499: Independent Study&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LAS 101: University Scholars Topics Seminar:&nbsp;Talking about TikTok<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"panel panel--white\">\n        <div class=\"panel__container\">\n            <div class=\"panel__intro\">\n                        <\/div>\n            \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Tammy Swenson Lepper<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-block contact-card mb-1\">\n   <div class=\"contact-card__content\">\n       <div class=\"contact-card__title h4\">\n           Tammy Swenson Lepper\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__subtitle h4\">\n           Professor, Internship Director\n       <\/div>\n       <div class=\"contact-card__description\">\n           <p>DuFresne PAC 210<\/p>\n<p>507.457.5246<\/p>\n\n       <\/div>\n       <a class=\"wsu-link contact-card__link\" href=\"mailto:tswensonlepper@winona.edu\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Email Tammy Swenson Lepper<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Tammy Swenson Lepper, a professor in Winona State&#8217;s Communication &amp; Media Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":19303,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[732],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19315","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-communication-and-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19346,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19315\/revisions\/19346"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winona.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}