A course which aims to build a multidisciplinary -- psychological, sociological, technological, religious, and political -- framework for understanding belief in conspiracy theories. How does conspiratorial thinking shape the American psyche, and what does this mean for politics and democracy?

A robust exploration of the varied social and political movements which have made significant changes to American democracy. Using social movement theory and an intersectional framework, the course covers Civil Rights, Black Power, the American Indian Movement, Stonewall, the waves of Feminism, the Moral Majority, the Tea Party Movement, Christian Nationalism, and more.

An introduction to the major texts of political theory, beginning with canonical thinkers and pushing those thinkers beyond the limits of their arguments. The course concludes with key critics and asks how the ideals of Western political thinking resulted in enslavement, colonial violence, totalitarianism, and genocide.

A hands-on, experiential course on American political parties, campaigns, and elections. How can students help get out the vote through registration drives, education campaigns around policy, candidate platforms, and relevant issues, and empower citizens to participate in American democracy?

A critical service-learning course organized around critical pedagogy and radical empathy that creates space for students to address inequality, injustice, and anti-democratic structures alongside their communities. What constitutes meaningful, effective, and justice-oriented community service?

A political methodology course that relies on the premise that we must first be good consumers of information before we can be good producers of any genre of writing. How can democratic citizens critically interpret all the media which bombards us on a daily basis?

My interpretation of the concepts of "modernity" and "rationality" in modern Western thinking. How was modernity constructed through Western political thought? Why does the articulation of modernity depend upon an antagonistic non-Western ‘Other’?

A first-year seminar designed to orient incoming students for a successful and empowering university experience. How can college students navigate large educational institutions already embedded in complex economic, social, and political structures?