The following are courses I teach currently at College of the Atlantic in philosophy, peace studies and language learning — some past courses are also archived below.
Philosophy:
Ethics: History of a Problematic – Ethics2015syllabusrev
Plato and the “Footnotes” through Foucault — Platosyllabus2015
Environmental Ethics — Environmental Ethics syllabus
Philosophies of Love — Syllabus Love 2017 share
Philosophies of Liberation — Liberation Syllabus 2016rev
Wittgenstein and Heidegger (under development for Winter of 2018 to be team taught with John Visvader)
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Political Philosophy of the Future (under development for Spring of 2018)
Peace Studies and Social Change:
Conflict Resolution Across Cultures — Conflict Resolution Syllabus 2016 revised
Contemporary Social Movement Strategies — CSMS2017syllabusrevised
This Changes Everything: Cases in Futures Studies — This Changes Everything Cases in Futures Studies
Language learning:
Learning a Language on Your Own — Learning Languages 2017 syllabus
Linguistics, Language and Culture: A Human Ecological Approach — Linguistics 2016 syllabus rev
I also help Karla Peña, our Spanish teacher and the Director of the PICY School in Yucatan, to coordinate the innovative annual Immersion Program in Spanish Language and Culture in Merida, Mexico which is described in brief here: 2017COA Spanish Immersion Programdescription and more fully here at the website for Karla Peña’s extraordinary school: http://www.picy.org.mx/index.php
ARCHIVE OF SOME PAST COURSES
The Arab Spring: A Camden Conference – syllabus2012camdenconferencerevised
Comrade, Worker, Parent, Mensch: Education and the State (with Bonnie Tai) — compedsylrev
Doing Human Ecology in Cross-Cultural Contexts; France — French Term at Cavilam
French Literature and Philosophy & Program in Vichy (with Karen Waldron) — French Lit and Phil Vichy program2012
Doing Human Ecology in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Yucatan (with Suzanne Morse) – programdeschandout07
Human Ecology Core Course 2008 (with team) — HumanEcologyCoreSyll 08
U. S. History: Establishing Community and Disestablishing Oppression (wiht Karen Waldron) —USHsyllS03
War and Terrorism: Advanced Seminar in Peace Studies —warandterrorsylrev
Rights: Who or What Should Have Them and Why? — rights2013Syllabusrev
Contemporary Continental Philosophy — contemp cont phil writing focus
Existentialism & Post-Modernism from Nietzsche to Irigary: Freedom and Love — Freedom and Lovedescription
“Self and Other: Continental Philosophy from Kant to Foucault” — 12syllabusconphil
Contemporary Social Movements: Bolivia (with Juan Tellez) — Boliviasyllabus140912
Numbers, Names and Narratives: Epistemology for Human Studies in Human Ecology — nnnrevsyllabus11rev
“Advanced Tutorial in Interdisciplinary Research Methods” — atsyllabus
Games and the Social Construction of Reality — Games and Social Construction of Reality
Acadia Senior College Courses taught with Ed Snyder and Ron Beard:
- The Moral Arc of the Universe: Moral/Social Evolution? — 130208OUTLINE OF PROPOSED COURSE ON SOCIAL EVOLUTION
- Artificial Intelligence: Promise or Peril? —Acadia Senior College AI and Robots