Instructor of Record
University of Oregon, 2016- 2018
Math Camp Instructor (Summer 2017 (7 students))
- Course Description: The graduate math camp short course is designed to give a basic overview for students who are entering their first year of graduate studies in political science. This course is designed to review the basic components of probability, statistics, linear algebra, calculus, and computational regression software. This course has been divided into four parts starting with a review of mathematical notation so that newly entering graduate students can feel confident in their quantitative methods sequence during their first year.
- Subjects covered: Notation, Probability, Random Variables, Linear Algebra, Matrices, Calculus, Regressions/Model, Confidence Intervals and Sampling
- Designed own course:
- Materials used PPT,
- Prepared syllabus and all course materials
- Instructed incoming graduate students in a tutorial including basic statistics, algebra, and calculus.
- Created a STATA workshop, and how to guide.
Chinese Politics (Spring 2017 (70 students), 2018 (35 students))
- Course Description: China is the second largest economy in the world and a growing global power, but it still faces considerable governance challenges. This course provides an in-depth analysis of the political history, institutions, and governance issues facing China. We will explore both the content of 20th and 21st century Chinese political history with an emphasis on the past thirty years of reform. The first part of the course will focus on political history, which will provide a necessary foundation for subsequent topics. It addresses the collapse of imperial China in social and ideological terms, the republican era and the formation of political parties, revolutionary change, the planned economy, and the reform period. The second part of the course will focus on the current political system, the relationship between the state and society, elections, and control of civil society and the media. The final few weeks of class will analyze crucial issues facing China today: the economic conditions, environment, foreign relations, and the theories on the future of China. The students will learn about the historical and modern politics and culture in China. Addressing how Chinese politics fits in to, or diverges from, political science theory. The class will highlight both western and non-western thought on Chinese politics. The class will also allow students to identify different arguments in the literature about past, current, and future Chinese Politics.
- Subjects covered: Chinese geography and politics, Confucianism, Legalism, political structures (the People’s Liberation Army, the Chinese Communist Party, the state government structure, Nomenklatura system), economics in China, environment in China, Gender and LGBTQ in China, Rise of China
- Designed own course:
- Created syllabus and all course materials.
- Materials used: PPT, handouts, quizzes, news articles
- Reading List: REQUIRED:
- China’s Political System, Edited by Sebastian Heilmann, 2017
- Frank N. Pieke, Knowing China: A Twenty-First Century Guide, 2016
- Roderick MacFarquhar , The Politics of China: Sixty Years of The People’s Republic of China, Edition 3, 2011
- Recommended text on Foreign Policy:
- Thomas J. Christensen, The China Challenge: Shaping the choices of a Rising Power, 2016
- Supervised teaching assistant.
Teaching Assistant
University of Oregon, 2013- 2016
- Power, Politics, and Inequality (Fall 2017)
- Problems in US Politics (Winter 2017)
- Intro to International Relations (Fall 2014, Fall 2016)
- Intro to Political Science (Fall 2015)
- Gods and Governments (Spring 2014)
- Political Ideologies (Winter 2014)
Columbia University, 2012
- Weapons of Mass Destruction (Spring 2012)
