From 2018-2023 I am seconded 100% as the Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at UBC Vancouver, and I have not taught very much during that time as a result.
In the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia Vancouver I frequently teach an Introduction to Philosophy course focused on value theory (mainly ethics and social/political philosophy). The course usually starts with some readings from Ancient Greece, then includes works on utilitarianism and deontology, and then some 20th & 21st century works on ethical or political topics. You can see a few examples of my web sites from this course:
- PHIL 102: Introduction to Philosophy (2019)
- PHIL 102: Introduction to Philosophy (2018)
- PHIL 102: Introduction to Philosophy (2017)
I have also taught a second year course in moral theory (PHIL 230) and a fourth year course in Continental Philosophy (usually focused on Foucault, also sometimes on Nietzsche). Here are the websites I used for the last times I taught those courses:
I also taught for about ten years in the Arts One program at UBC Vancouver: a team-taught, interdisciplinary, year-long course that provides students with first year credits in English, History and Philosophy.
Blog on Teaching & Learning
I have a blog called You’re the Teacher, in which I write about teaching & learning in philosophy as well as research I am doing in the scholarship of teaching and learning and open education. I also post many of the slides from my presentations on that site.
History of Courses Taught
2004-present (UBC)
ARTS 001: Arts One – a first year multidisciplinary, team-taught course
PHIL 102: Introduction to Philosophy (Value Theory)
PHIL 230: Introduction to Moral Theory
PHIL 330: Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 334: Sex, Gender and Philosophy
PHIL 335: Power and Oppression
PHIL 449: Continental Philosophy (Nietzsche and Foucault on Genealogy)
WMST 100: Introduction to Women’s Studies
2000-2004 (University of Wisconsin-Rock County, Janesville, WI, USA)
Introduction to Philosophy
Ethics (Theoretical and Applied)
Logic (introductory-level informal and symbolic)
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy of the Arts (interdisciplinary course)
Human Nature, Religion and Society
First-Year Seminar
1999-2000 (St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, USA)
Ethical Analysis (Ethical Theory)
Business Ethics
1997-2000 (University of Texas at Austin)
Introduction to Philosophy
Contemporary Moral Problems
Business Ethics
Introduction to the Philosophy of the Arts
