COURSES

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Undergraduate Courses Taught in the Department of Africana Studies
Fall 2012 - Present

CSUN DEPARTMENT OF PAN AFRICAN STUDIES

  • AFRS/PAS 100: Introduction to Black Studies and Black Culture (spring 2014; fall 2014; fall 2015; spring 2016; fall 2017; fall 2018; spring 2019; fall 2019; spring 2020; fall 2020; spring 2021; fall 2021; and spring 2022)

  • AFRS/PAS 113A: Approaches to University Writing (two sections fall 2012; fall 2013; fall 2014; fall 2015; fall 2016; fall 2017; fall 2018; fall 2019; fall 2020; fall 2021; and fall 2022)

  • AFRS/PAS 113B: Approaches to University Writing (two sections spring 2013; spring 2014; spring 2015; spring 2016; spring 2017; spring 2018; spring 2019; spring 2020; spring 2021; spring 2022; and spring 2023)

  • AFRS/PAS 114A: Approaches to University Writing (fall 2013; fall 2014; fall 2015; and fall 2016)

  • AFRS/PAS 114B: Approaches to University Writing (spring 2014; spring 2015; spring 2016; and spring 2017)

  • AFRS/PAS 204: Race and Critical Thinking (fall 2012; spring 2013; fall 2013; and spring 2016)

  • AFRS 220: Introduction to Black Psychology (formerly the Psychological Environment of the African-American) (fall 2022 and fall 2023)

  • AFRS 272: African American History Since 1865 (fall 2015; two sections spring 2018; fall 2018; spring 2019; fall 2019; spring 2020; and fall 2020)

  • AFRS 311: Black Psychology (spring 2017; spring 2018; spring 2019; spring 2020; spring 2021; and spring 2022)

  • AFRS 352: The Black Novel (spring 2024)

  • AFRS 320: The Black Personality (formerly African-American Personality Development) (spring 2015; fall 2016; fall 2017; fall 2018; fall 2019; fall 2020; fall 2021; fall 2022; fall 2023; fall 2024; and fall 2025)

  • AFRS 351: The Black Aesthetic (spring 2023, fall 2024, and fall 2025)

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Undergraduate Courses Taught in the African American and Diaspora Studies Program

Fall 2009 - Spring 2012

  • AAST 1000: Introduction to African American Studies (two sections fall 2009; spring 2010; fall 2010; summer 2011; and fall 2011)

  • AAST/HST 2360: African American History (spring 2010 and spring 2011)

  • AAST 3010: The African American Aesthetic (spring 2010)

  • AAST/HST 3670: The African Diaspora (spring 2011)

  • AAST/COJO 4190: Dimensions of Racism (summer 2010 and fall 2011)

  • AAST/ WMST4233: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media (fall 2009; summer 2010; fall 2010; summer 2011; and fall 2011)

  • AAST/ ENG 4450: The African American Novel (spring 2011)

  • AAST 4975: Independent Research (fall 2009; spring 2010; fall 2010; spring 2011; summer 2011; and fall 2011)

Graduate Courses Taught in the African American and Diaspora Studies Program

Fall 2009 - Spring 2012

  • AAST/ WMST5233: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media (fall 2010 and summer 2011)

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Undergraduate Courses Taught in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University

Fall 2002 - Spring 2009

  • AAST 1152: Introduction to the African/Black Aesthetic (fall 2007; spring 2008; and spring 2009)

  • AAST 1268: African American History 1900 to Present Day (fall 2002; spring 2003; summer 2003; and fall 2003)

  • AAST 1296: Introduction to African American Studies (fall 2005, spring 2006, summer I 2006, two sections fall 2006, two sections spring 2007, summer I 2007, spring 2008, fall 2008, and spring 2009)

  • AAST 2251: Mass Media and the Black Community (fall 2008)

  • AAST 2934: Literature of American Enslavement (summer 2007 and summer 2008)

  • AAST 4248: Dimensions of Racism (summer 2003; fall 2003; spring 2004; summer I 2004; spring 2005; summer 2005; fall 2005; spring 2006; and summer 2006)

Undergraduate Courses, Teaching Assistant in the Department of African American Studies

Fall 2002 - Spring 2009

  • Teaching Assistant for African American History 1900 to Present Day (AAST 1268) with Dr. Anthony Monteiro (spring 2004 and fall 2004)

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Undergraduate Courses Taught

Fall 2001 - Spring 2002

  • ESS 100: Dance Appreciation (fall 2001 and spring 2002)

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Undergraduate Courses, Teaching Assistant

Fall 2002 - Spring 2009

  • Teaching Assistant for Agitational Communication (Communication Studies 175) with Prof. Paul Von Blum (winter 2001)

K-12

Fall 2001-present

Home of the Hilltopper

  • Taught “Ujamaa: Cooperative Economics (Day 4 of Kwanzaa)” in Mr. Beckstrom’s Economics class at Onalaska High School in Onalaska, WI (April 2014; April 2015; March 2016; March 2017; March 2019; and March 2025)

  • Taught “The Presence of the African Worldview in Black Life and Culture” in Mr. Greschner’s class at Onalaska High School in Onalaska, WI (March 2019)

  • Taught “The Presence of the African Worldview in Black Life and Culture” in Mrs. Nowak’s class at Onalaska High School in Onalaska, WI (March 2019)

  • Taught “The Presence of the African Worldview in Black Life and Culture” in Mr. Shepardson’s class at Onalaska High School in Onalaska, WI (March 2019)

  • Taught “The African Worldview and African American Literature” in Ms. Celine Lamont’s Ethnic Literature class at Onalaska High School in Onalaska, WI (March 2019)

  • Taught K-6 classes at Linford Elementary School in Laramie, WI with lessons on: Jazz Dance and Jazz Musica (Kindergarten); Adinkra Symbols and Mdw Ntr (Hieroglyphics) (1st grade); Let Your Spirit Soar like a Butterfly (2nd grade); Friendship (2nd grade); Kwanzaa (2nd grade); Enslavement (5th grade); Liberia (6th grade); and Marian Anderson (6th grade) (fall 2011-spring 2012)

Certified Substitute Teacher in the Onalaska School District in Onalaska, WI (2001-2002)