Teaching

Welcome to my teaching page. This is where I will keep resources related to courses I am actively teaching, or ones that I have taught in the recent past. I also maintain a set of resources broadly related to pedagogy.

Current courses

• PS140: Congress (TA) [winter '23]

Archived courses taught recently

• PS40: Intro to American Politics (TA) [fall '23]

• PS40: Intro to American Politics (instructor of record) [summer session A '23]. This course will be taught to high school students as part of UCLA's Summer Institute. [syllabus]

• Cluster 60: Social Science in the 1960s: Learning by Doing (Teaching Fellow; instructor of record) [spring '23] [syllabus]

• Cluster 60B: America in the Sixties: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1954 to 1974 (Teaching Fellow) [winter '23]

• Cluster 60A: America in the Sixties: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1954 to 1974 (Teaching Fellow, or TF) [fall '22]

• Undergraduate Research Experience (URE) Seminar (full primary instructor/instructor of record) [fall'22]

• PS149: Local Politics and Policy (TA) [spring '22]

• PS6: Intro to Data Analysis (TA) [winter '22]

• PS40: Intro to American Politics (TA) [fall '21]

My General Resources for Students

1. How to read an academic paper? Link to my notes here.

2. Worksheet on coming up with a good research question here.

Good Resources Written by Others

Here is a set of resources related either to learning particular skills or more broadly to the science and craft of learning overall. Some have benefited me personally. 

• Arthur Spirling's tips on how to be a grad student: https://github.com/ArthurSpirling/BeingAGradStudent

• Nick HK's videos on learning R, more or less from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcTBLulJV_AIuXCxr__V8XAzWZosMQIfW. Pitched for economists, but remains super useful for folks interested in social science applicants generally--and even those that are interested in learning R specifically.

Do you need a letter of recommendation for a class, grant, or something else? I'm happy to write one, but a few things to keep in mind: (1) try to approach me during the class I'm TAing, (2) give me at least 3 weeks to work on the letter, and (3) try to come to an office hours or two so we can chat.

I'm also happy to chat with anyone interested in grad school about what that's like (research interests, application process, etc.). Or to chat about what it's like to work in the private sector/in industry, and how to weigh that against a graduate degree.

Below are links to forms that will take you to archived versions of courses I've taught in the past. If you're unsure of the password, send me an email.

Resources