I taught this course in several iterations both at Georgia State University and Kennesaw State University. At GSU, I taught the course as a Graduate Student Instructor – only one graduate student per year is selected to be the sole instructor on record teaching this course during a shortened 6-week summer semester. I was chosen to teach the Summer 2010 course.

I taught this course again during the full 12-week fall and spring 2015-2016 academic year at Kennesaw State University.

I have included the syllabi, lecture schedules, and special in-class activity below.

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Georgia State University, Summer 2010

This was a challenging but fun course to plan and teach. I had been a successful teaching assistant for the Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 Intro to Anthropology courses, and was honored and excited to be chosen to teach the course as the sole instructor on record without my professor’s supervision (all the professors were off doing their own research and field classes, which was why the department selected graduate students to teach the summer course). Shortening an already packed 12-week course about the entirety of human cultural, biological, and linguistic history from our origins to the present to a 6-week summer course for all non-anthropology majors was certainly a challenge, but one I was excited to undertake.

To keep the students engaged during this three-hour-long class, I split the classtime into two halves. During the first hour and a half I lectured on the days’s topic. During the second half ehich followed a 15-minute break, we had in-class discussion based on readings from the supplemental reading – an anthology titled Applying Anthropology, where anthropologists have written articles applying the concepts in real-world scenarios. These readings and the “Participation Assignments” to be done prior to coming to class, helped not only engage the students during a long class day, but facilitated student-led discussions where they considered the real-world applications of the anthropological topics we were currently learning. I viewed this as also keeping a sense of relevance to my class of non-anthropology majors.

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Kennesaw State University, Fall 2015 – Spring 2016

This was my first time as a full professor of anthropology after acquiring my masters degrees. I was given the opportunity to teach two modules of Intro to Anthropology at KSU in the Fall of 2015, and one in the Spring of 2016 alongside a senior-level course, the Anthropology of Death.

Being able to take advantage of the longer Fall and Spring semesters allowed me to delve more deeply into each sub-field of anthropology. I’ve included here my syllabus, lecture schedule, the in-class Ethics Bowl debate activity which was a huge hit with the students, as well as a professional evaluation I received for this class.

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