I am committed to pedagogical training and have undertaken the following courses and workshops at the UC Irvine Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation as well as in my department:
- TA Professional Development Program
- Encouraging Ownership and Agency in Flipped and Online Classrooms
- Step Forward to Inclusive Teaching
- Being Mindful of Teaching Accessibility when using Classroom Technologies to Engage Students
- Kent Johnson Memorial Teaching Workshop: Syllabus Design
- Kent Johnson Memorial Teaching Workshop: Teaching Reflections
- TA Professional Development Program
- Encouraging Ownership and Agency in Flipped and Online Classrooms
- Step Forward to Inclusive Teaching
- Being Mindful of Teaching Accessibility when using Classroom Technologies to Engage Students
- Kent Johnson Memorial Teaching Workshop: Syllabus Design
- Kent Johnson Memorial Teaching Workshop: Teaching Reflections
I have been a teaching assistant for:
- Introduction to Symbolic Logic
- Introduction to Critical Reasoning
- Introduction to Inductive Logic
- Introduction to Biological Anthropology
- Introduction to Psychology
- Psychology Fundamentals
I have also developed syllabi for three courses I intend to be a primary instructor for (drafts available upon request). These are:
- Introduction to Symbolic Logic
- Introduction to Critical Reasoning
- Introduction to Inductive Logic
- Introduction to Biological Anthropology
- Introduction to Psychology
- Psychology Fundamentals
I have also developed syllabi for three courses I intend to be a primary instructor for (drafts available upon request). These are:
Introduction to Reasoning
On propositional and first-order logic, this course offers a more exciting take on a classic logic course by connecting logic to social and political issues. The primary text is Wilhelm’s forthcoming book, Logic for Justice. Later weeks will cover topics such as racial segregation, women’s suffrage, same-sex marriage and climate change and will require students to apply their logical reasoning skills to arguments in these areas.
Transformative Decisions
Covering L. A. Paul’s seminal work, Transformative Experience, this course deals with how we can rationally and authentically make decisions which are life-changing, such as choosing to have a child or change career. The course covers objections, responses, and potential solutions to the challenge of transformative experiences for decision theory.
Becoming Moral: The Evolution of Human Morality
This course addresses how we evolved morality. It covers issues in the evolution of altruism, naturalised ethics and meta-ethics, the neurobiological basis of empathy, as well as comparative studies between humans and other great apes. This is intended to be a course for more advanced undergraduate students interested in the philosophy of biology.
