Teaching is hard. When I first started teaching political science, this fact took me by surprise. I had always found learning to be relatively easy, and it hadn’t occurred to me that teaching would require an “approach,” or a “philosophy.” But, over time, I realized that I needed to focus on specific ways that I can help students connect with and digest the key facts, concepts, and controversies in law, politics, and data analysis. Find my continually-evolving teaching philosophy here. My collection of UNLV syllabi is below:
Older Syllabi
- COLA 100: Law & Societies (First Year Seminar)
- PSC 101: Introduction to American Government
- PSC 330: Constitutional Law: Government Powers
- PSC 332: Judicial Process
- Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Summer 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
- PSC 411A: Constitutional Law: The First Amendment
- PSC 411B: Constitutional Law: Civil Rights & Liberties
- PSC 411D: Constitutional Rights of Women
- PSC 411E: Constitutional Rights of the Accused
- PSC 702: Advanced Quantitative Methodology
Other Courses Taught
- Clark University, Worcester, MA (Visiting Professor, Department of Government: 2006-2008)
- Introduction to American Politics
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Research Methods
- Judicial Politics
- Women in Politics
- Constitutional Law: Government Powers
- Constitutional Law: Rights & Liberties
- Seminar on the Constitutional Law of Presidential-Congressional Relations
- Western Michigan University, Lansing Campus, Lansing, MI (Visiting Instructor: 2006)
- Theoretical and Ideological Bases of Contemporary Politics
- Alma College, Alma, MI (Visiting Instructor: 2005-2006)
- Introduction to International Relations
- Introduction to American Politics
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (Instructor, Department of Political Science: 2002-2005)
- American Judicial Politics
- American Constitutional Law
- Governments and Politics of the World
