Teaching
Instructor
Department of Sociology, Umeå University
“Online Learning, Expansion, and Inequality in Higher Education” a component of the course:
Complex IT Environments and Critical Digital Sociology
This component surveys how distance education reshapes higher education. Students consider the ways these changes can exacerbate—or mitigate—existing social and economic inequalities. By analyzing contemporary research, policy developments, and diverse student experiences, students identify both the opportunities and challenges posed by online education’s rapid expansion.
AUT 2017, AUT 2018, AUT 2019, AUT 2020
Instructor
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington
Seminar on Teaching in Sociology (SOC 502)
Techniques of lecturing, leading discussion, evaluating student performance, and other pedagogical skills ancillary to successful teaching. Students develop a course and obtain videotaped feedback of presentations.
WIN 2012
Introduction to Social Sciences (SOCSCI 150)
Small, faculty/staff-mentored learning community designed to emphasize variation in disciplinary thinking across the social sciences and connections to career and life after graduation.
SPR 2010, AUT 2010
How to Think Like a Scholar (ARTSCI 101)
An introduction to the university as a learning environment, basic theories of learning, what scholarship is, and how it happens.
SUM 2012
Instructor
General Education, Pacific Lutheran University
Study Skills (PSYC 110)
Effective techniques for college study. Note-taking, study methods, examination skills, time management, educational planning.
AUT 2005, AUT 2006, AUT 2007, AUT 2008
Career and Educational Planning (PSYC 113)
Personal decision-making process applied to career and educational choices, self-assessment, exploration of the world of work, educational planning, reality testing, and building career-related experiences.
WIN 2006, WIN 2007, WIN 2008
Instructor
Woodring College of Education, Western Washington University
Gender & Communication (SEM 101)
Seminar for first-year interest group course cluster, providing a learning community and enabling students to build an intellectual framework into integrate first-year students into the academic culture of the university.
AUT 2003
Foundations for Academic Success (AHE 340)
Introduction to the university community, effective techniques for college study skills and educational planning for first-generation, low-income students.
AUT 2002, SPR 2003
Other Teaching Experience
Guest Lecturer, International and Comparative Education, Stockholm University
"The Expansion of Online Education and the Myth of Democratizing Undergraduate Access"
September 2014
Teaching Assistant, Philosophy Department, Gustavus Adolphus College
Introduction to Philosophy: Racism and Sexism (PHI 102)
Spring Semester 2001