Teaching Experience International Security Studies NS5510, Air University eSchool of Graduate PME Fall 2021
The International Security Studies (NS) course provides a foundation for understanding the international security environment and its implications for the United States, as well as how the US government both shapes and responds to this environment. The course also examines the instruments of power (IOPs), and how these are wielded by both state and non-state actors to affect the international environment. In addition, the course examines the US national strategic decision-making process, including how actors and systems translate policy into action through the use of the IOPs in the interagency process. Finally, the NS course examines specific state-based, transnational, and human security issues of concern for the United States. On War POLS 30203, Teaching Assistant for Dr. Sebastian Rosato University of Notre Dame, Spring 2015
This course is about the causes and conduct of war. As regards causes, the focus is on evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the most prominent explanations for the outbreak of major war, including balance of power, regime type (democracy/autocracy), civil/military relations, and the personality traits of individual leaders. As regards conduct, the emphasis is on considering the effect of broad political, social, and economic factors (nationalism, democratization, industrialization, military professionalization) on how wars are and have been fought. Particular historical emphasis is placed on the causes and conduct of great power wars (especially the two World Wars), although other wars will be discussed.
US Foreign Policy POLS 30201, Teaching Assistant for Dr. Michael Desch University of Notre Dame, Fall 2014
The United States is the most powerful state in the world today. Its actions are important not just for US citizens, but they also affect whether others go to war, whether they will win their wars, whether they receive economic aid, whether they will go broke, or whether they will starve. What determines US foreign policy? What is the national interest? When do we go to war? Would you send US soldiers into war? If so, into which wars and for what reasons? How do our economic policies affect others? Does trade help or hurt the US economy and its citizens? We first study several theories about foreign policy. We then examine the US foreign policy process, including the President, Congress, the bureaucracy, the media, and public opinion. To see how this all works, we turn to the history of US foreign policy, from Washington's farewell address through the World Wars and the Cold War to the Gulf War. We then study several major issue areas, including weapons of mass destruction, trade and economics, and the environment. Finally, we develop and debate forecasts and strategies for the future. Introduction to International Relations POLS 10200, Teaching Assistant for Dr. Susan Rosato Included two discussion sections, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2014
This course provides an introduction to the study of international relations and will cover several theoretical approaches to and empirical issues in the field of IR. Readings have been selected to highlight both traditional approaches to and more recent developments in world politics. The first half of the course focuses on contending theories of IR, while the second half of the course deals with more substantive issues. Empirical topics and subjects covered include: international security (nuclear weapons, ethnic conflict, and terrorism); international political economy (trade, international finance, and globalization); and 20th Century History (WWI, WWII, and the Cold War). In addition, we will examine several contemporary topics in international organization and law, including the environment, non-governmental organizations, and human rights. We conclude by discussing the future of international relations in the 21st Century.
Europe at War: 1900-1945 POLS 10202, Teaching Assistant for Dr. Sebastian Rosato and Dr. John Deak Included two discussion sections, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2013
This course, taught by a historian and a political scientist and therefore explicitly interdisciplinary in nature, provides an analytical overview of European domestic and international history from the turn of the twentieth century through the two world wars. Topics include the collapse of the international system before 1914, the causes and conduct of the First World War, the Versailles System, the economic and political crises of the 1920s and 1930s, and the causes and conduct of the Second World War.
Other Relevant Experience Speech and Debate Coach Texas A&M University Speech and Debate Team, 2010-2011.
Striving for Excellence in Teaching Certificate Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Notre Dame, 2016