Teaching

Courses Taught

Below are a list of courses I have taught or co-taught since 2012. I've included syllabi for most of my recent courses, and I can provide syllabi upon request for other courses!

Political Science

• GOVT 2305: Federal Government (Taught 2017-2019 at Tyler Junior College)
• GOVT 2306: Texas Government (Taught 2018-2019 at Tyler Junior College)
• POL 407: International Law (Taught in 2017 at Saint Joseph's College)
• POL 415A: State and Local Politics (Taught in 2017 at Saint Joseph's College)
• POL 406: Human Rights (Taught in 2016 at Saint Joseph's College)
• POL 209: US Foreign Policy (Taught in 2016 at Saint Joseph's College)
• POL 103: Introduction to International Relations (Taught in 2016 at Saint Joseph's College)
• POL 102: Introduction to Comparative Politics (Taught in 2015 and 2016 at Saint Joseph's College)
• POL 101: Introduction to American Government (Taught in 2015 at Saint Joseph's College)
• PS 101: Introduction to American Politics (Taught in 2014 at University of Kentucky)
• PS 240: Introduction to Political Theory (Taught in 2013 at University of Kentucky)
• PS 391: Urban Sustainability in North America (Co-taught with Dr. Ernest Yanarella in 2013 at University of Kentucky)
• PS 372: Introduction to Political Analysis (Taught in 2012 at University of Kentucky)

SJC's Core Curriculum

Saint Joseph's College's Core Curriculum was a general education sequence of 10 courses students take over their four years alongside their major courses. It emphasized an interdisciplinary approach to education that placed often disparate subjects (e.g. history, literature, science, theology, politics, etc.) into a curriculum that focused on helping students form their own worldview based in reason, their own beliefs and views, and a historical framework. As an instructor in the curriculum, I liked to think about it in the way that Dr. Michael Nichols would talk about Core: Your major was there to help you make a good living, Core was there to help you live a good life. Read more about the Core Curriculum in this write-up from 2008 in Commonweal Magazine: "The Saga of Saint Joseph's".

• Core 1: The Contemporary Situation (Taught in 2016 at Saint Joseph's College)
• Core 2: The Modern World (Taught in 2016 and 2017 at Saint Joseph's College)
• Core 5: Humanity in the Universe I (Taught in 2015 at Saint Joseph's College)
• Core 9: Toward a Christian Humanism (Taught in 2016 at Saint Joseph's College)

Other Courses

• PSY 454: Social Science Seminar (Co-Taught with Dr. Mark Seely and Dr. Michael Steinhour in 2016, Saint Joseph's College)
• AEC 300: Agricultural and Food Policy (Taught in 2015 for the Agricultural Economics Department, College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, University of Kentucky)