Teaching
One of my favorite things about grad school is the opportunity to teach. Courses in reverse chronological order.
2025
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SOC 225 Data and Society (undergraduate)Autumn 2025. Social implications of the digital revolution, including ethical issues associated with algorithmic design and privacy. Discusses data science as a new occupation that uses data to understand or influence people's behavior. Students use a sociological lens to explore how our increasingly digital lifestyle changes institutions and social relations.
2024
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STAT 221 Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences (undergraduate)Fall 2024. Develops statistical literacy. Examines objectives and pitfalls of statistical studies; study designs, data analysis, inference; graphical and numerical summaries of numerical and categorical data; correlation and regression; estimation, confidence intervals, and significance tests. Emphasizes social science examples and cases. -
Math Camp: Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (graduate)Summer 2024. Algebra, functions, matrix algebra, calculus, probability distributions, and an introduction to statistics and maximum likelihood. -
SOC 110 Survey of Sociology (undergraduate)Spring 2024. Human interaction, social institutions, social stratification, socialization, deviance, social control, and social and cultural change. -
STAT 221 Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences (undergraduate)Winter 2024. Develops statistical literacy. Examines objectives and pitfalls of statistical studies; study designs, data analysis, inference; graphical and numerical summaries of numerical and categorical data; correlation and regression; estimation, confidence intervals, and significance tests. Emphasizes social science examples and cases.