Teaching

My home department is Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies (ISLS), previously the Liberal Studies Program. I primarily teach in the Integrated Teacher Education Program (ITEP) within the BA in Liberal Studies, that prepares future Elementary School teachers. I also teach for our other (new) BA in Interdisciplinary Studies. I have 50% teaching duties in the Philosophy Department where I teach philosophy of science, scientific reasoning, environmental ethics, introduction to philosophy, and critical thinking.

Courses Taught

Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies, CSUN

• INDS 300: Frameworks in Interdisciplinarity - Philosophy of Science and Interdisciplinarity [Syllabus]
• LRS 200/L: Physical Science: Learning, Thinking, Doing (co-taught with Dr. Matthew d'Alessio) [Syllabus]
• LRS 250/F: Reason, Belief, and Education - Philosophy through Children's Literature (co-taught with Dr. Krystal Howard) [Syllabus]
• LRS 491: Science and Society [Syllabus]

Philosophy Department, CSUN

• PHIL 495: Advanced Philosophy of the Sciences [Syllabus 1][Syllabus 2] 

• PHIL 330: Philosophy of Science [Syllabus]

• PHIL 240: Environmental Ethics [Syllabus]

• PHIL 200: Critical Reasoning [Syllabus]
• PHIL 150: Introduction to Philosophical Thought [Syllabus]
• PHIL 210: Reasoning in the Sciences [Syllabus]

Philosophy Department, UC San Diego

• Phil 14: Introduction to Philosophy – Nature of Reality: Summer 2014 [Syllabus]

Grants and Pedagogy Workshops

• CSU-wide Teaching Climate Change and Resilience Faculty Learning Community – Spring 2024
• CSUN's Equity-Minded Syllabus Workshop – Spring 2024

• CSUN's 'Get Up to Speed with Online Teaching' – Summer 2020
• Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) course on Effective Online Teaching Practices at CSUN – 2020-21
• CSUN Beck Grant for Curriculum Development – Spring 2018
• CSUN Community Engagement Interdisciplinary Grant for Curriculum Development – Fall 2017