Teaching

My teaching emphasizes oral and written communication, collaborative learning through group deliberation, and accessibility to students from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and learning needs. I do this by crafting more inclusive syllabi and consciously seeking to provide alternative ways by which students can demonstrate their proficiency of the course material, such as oral exams and group writing assignments.

I have designed and taught these courses as primary instructor:

• History of Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy. An upper-division undergraduate thematic survey of ancient Greek and Roman epistemology, metaphysics, or ethics, reading both primary and secondary sources.

• Moral Philosophy. An upper-division undergraduate course on contemporary ethics, focusing on topics like blame, aggregation, constitutivism, and misogyny

• Philosophical Ideas: Reality, Knowledge, and the Good Life. An introduction to theoretical and practical philosophy through historical and contemporary texts

• Honors Foundational Sequence 1: Beginnings of the Christian Tradition. A great-books style, introductory survey on Greek, Roman, and early Christian primary sources in literature, history, politics, philosophy, and religion

• Digital Privacy and Ethics. An application of ethical and political perspectives to the issue of privacy, especially applied to recent and emerging digital technologies

• Love in Moral Philosophy. A look at the debate about the problem partiality poses for contemporary ethical theories, for students who have taken the introductory ethics class

• Why College? Your Education and the Good Life. First-year liberal arts requirement on the purpose of education reading diverse perspectives, from Seneca to DuBois

Please contact me if you would like to see a syllabus for, teaching resources from, or more information about each course.