Teaching Experience

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Adjunct Instructor, Buena Vista University — Graduate & Professional Studies, March 2009–Present

  • Online Courses Taught:
    • PSCN115: Introduction to Politics
    • PSCN110: Introduction to American Government
    • BVU300: BVU Seminar (Globalism)
    • PSPA320: State and Local Politics
  • Online Courses Developed:
    • PSCN115: Introduction to Politics (focusing on political ideologies, and utilizing Google+ and Google Docs for assignments)
    • PSCN110: Introduction to American Government

Graduate Instructor, Louisiana State University

  • Courses Taught:
    • Fall 2006–Spring 2007: Introduction to Political Theory (Correspondence Course)
    • Spring/Fall 2005: Introduction to Political Theory
  • Courses Developed:
    • Introduction to Political Theory

Graduate Assistant, Louisiana State University — Political Science Dept., Fall 2002–Spring 2006

  • Duties included preparing and/or grading quizzes, exams, and papers, holding review sessions, occasionally lecturing, and assisting in research.
  • Courses TA’ed:
    • Political Theory from Plato to Fortescue
    • Political Theory from Machiavelli to Nietzsche
    • Introduction to International Relations (4X)
    • International Conflict and Cooperation
    • American Government
    • Honors American Government (2X)
    • American Constitutional Law
    • American Presidency (5X)
    • Bureaucracy, Politics, and Public Policy (2X)

Syllabi

Louisiana State University, Department of Political Science