Rich DeRouen

I began teaching at Collin College as an associate faculty member in the fall of 1997, with two (and eventually three) class sections of Humanities 1301. In the spring of 2001, I started teaching an online version of the course. My experiences teaching this course and the students at Collin College were so rewarding, I decided that I wanted to do it permanently. I became a full-time professor for the college in the fall of 2006, and I hope to continue in that capacity for many years in the future.

In addition to Collin College, I've taught for the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), local art and technical colleges, and a community college in Florida. Courses taught at those institutions included rhetoric and composition, advanced composition, literary analysis, humanities, written communications, and an introduction to computers.

My graduate degree is in Humanities with an emphasis in the History of Ideas. My studies at UTD encompassed history, philosophy, rhetoric, literature, and the arts. My undergraduate degree, however, is in Computer Science, and I also spent a year of graduate studies in that field.

In addition to my teaching experience, I spent three years as a computer software analyst, two years as a technical writer in the computer industry, and four years as a copy editor and supervisor of copy editors for a large marketing services agency. Immediately before coming to Collin College on a permanent basis, I worked for two years as a research specialist in the Center for Translation Studies at UTD.