Caroline Parsons

Associate Professor of Communication

Dr. Caroline S. Parsons is an associate professor in the department of communication studies at The University of Alabama. She serves as the coordinator of internships and field experiences in communication.

With research interests in communication pedagogy and experiential education, her books include Honors Communication (with Jennifer Becker; Lang, 2020) and Critical Decision Making (with Sim Butler; Great River Learning, 2021). Her research has been published in Communication Teacher, Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Journal of Communication in Healthcare, Journal of Learning Spaces, and Syllabus Journal.

Dr. Parsons teaches such courses as introduction to graduate studies, capstone seminar, foundations of communication studies, and relational communication. She has served on more than 160 committees devoted to experiential education, internships and field experiences, undergraduate research, speech and debate (forensics), curriculum, and assessment.