Yasmine Soheim
- Position: Senior Instructor
- Department: Department of Rhetoric and Composition
Yasmine Soheim is a committed educator with a proven ability to teach, motivate and guide students through their learning path by providing a positive and energetic atmosphere. She is a Senior Instructor at the Rhetoric and Composition Department. Soheim has a BA in Business Administration with Honors (2002) and a MA in Applied Linguistics- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages with Highest Honors (2015) from The American University in Cairo (AUC). Her MA thesis is on Teacher Politeness: A Cross-Cultural Comparison in ESL Classrooms. Her study addresses politeness strategies used by American and Egyptian instructors in a university context in Egypt by looking at how Egyptian and American teachers use positive and negative politeness in their ESL classrooms.
In previous lives, Soheim was a Research Assistant at the Applied Linguistics Department and a Teaching Fellow at the Intensive English Program at AUC, where she taught Study Skills and English Grammar to freshmen students. She also worked at Berlitz Language Center for three years, where she taught Business English, French, and General English to students from various backgrounds.
Pragmatics
Discourse Analysis
Business Writing
Assessment
Education
RHET 1020: Research Writing
RHET 3210: Business Communication
RHET 3220: Public Speaking
CORE Seminar 1010 and RHET 1010 Freshmen Writing: Of Heroes and Demons
CORE Seminar 1010 and RHET 1010: Vision Machines
- RHET 1010 Freshmen Writing: Who Am I, Human Quest, and How Do We Know What Is True