Classroom Materials

Syracuse University (Teaching Assistant)

Objective: This course is an introduction to modern United States history that considers the people, events, and trends shaping American life since the end of the Civil War. Through readings, lectures, and discussion, students will see how the past influences their world. They will learn to construct persuasive arguments and acquire information allowing them to participate in a democracy. Students will also gain writing and presentation skills.
Syllabus History 102
Reconstruction Week Three (ppt)
The Great War Week Six (ppt)
Week Fourteen — The Most Dangerous Man In The World (ppt)

Objective: This course will examine gender, race and class through a chronological investigation of American history from colonization to the end of the Civil War. You will learn how each of these topics relates to the political, social and economic circumstances of specific chronological periods. You will be reading primary source material as well as secondary literature (the textbook, American Horizons) that relate to the topics under discussion. The goals for this course are three-fold: you will gain information about the United States’ history, you will acquire an understanding of how historians go about their work, and you will use the primary sources we read to begin formulating your own historical interpretations.
Syllabus History 101 – Fall 2022
Week Eight Discussion (ppt)
Week Thirteen Discussion (ppt)
Week Fifteen Discussion (ppt)

Objective: Introduction to Indigenous Studies and Colonialism designed to introduce students to the discipline’s theories, methodologies, historical trends, and current scholarship. History 350 will empower students to not only better understand indigenous studies, but to think critically about past, current, and future trends.
Syllabus History 350 (pdf)
History 350 Teaching Outline (pdf)

Objective: Before every essay, I use one discussion to create a space for review and preparation. This technique, which students have embraced, offers them the opportunity to refresh their writing skills and take advantage of an interactive forum so they begin the research and writing process well prepared, familiar with the sources and histography, and assignment requirements and expectations.
Writing workshop (ppt)

Objective: To prepare you for the volume, diversity, pace, and expectations of a professional communications environment. You will write everything from traditional press releases to tweets, discuss the logic of your assignments as a group and individual, and you will learn how the same ideas and projects can be positioned for a wide variety of audiences. You are required to select a company or organization that will be the basis of your writing assignments in this class. It’s best to choose a company or organization that you know reasonably well, or one that has a large public presence so that you can research it thoroughly enough to complete your assignments. Writing in this professional environment is both individual and collaborative, so you’ll be writing individual assignments and working together to edit them.
Syllabus History 307 (pdf)
092517 Lecture — Spokespeople, Internal and External Comm (ppt)
100417 Lecture — Media and Messaging Training Part 2 (ppt)