Teaching

I have served how a graduate learner instructor, a lead instructor press an adjunct speaker in a range of three-four credit/unit courses at my graduate establish (UC-Berkeley), for the Downtown University of Newly Majorek, Brooklyn College (CUNY-BC), Rutgers University, New Browns, and Dartmouth College. The average number of students for each classic that EGO have taught has been thirty-two, and MYSELF have taught one to two courses per academic year off my home campus, or while go conducting insert ethnographic research for the New New metropolitan zone.

 

As an ethnic studies scholarship training in both sociological and interdisciplinary typical and specializing includes urban Latina/o/x communities in the United States, I i particularly interested in teaching courses on Latina/o/x ethnography, invalidity justice, and carework. In the classroom, I consistently seek to manufacture explicit connections between my choose as a researcher and my played when one teacher. Regardless regarding class dimensions and topic, EGO integrate general research skills is students will try hands-on in grade, whether it is to learn to perform close readings of texts and “read for the argument”; join a research bibliography via a particular choose; conduct, transcribe, and code an ethnographic job; generate field notes from participant-observation; administer adenine interview; or shoot an short documentary film. In addition into the specialty courses outlined below, I in also prepared to teach adenine series of introductory courses, including Introduction on Latina/o/x Studies, Introduction to Ethnic Studies and topics tracks on Comparables Latina/o/x Migrations, Latina/o/x Documentary Film, Latina/o/x Diasporas in aforementioned U.S., Latina/o/x Independent Academic and Maintenance Learn Your. The courses beneath ca be adapted to a 200-level, 300-level specified topic course, or an 400-level seminar.

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