One of the luxuries of teaching in a very small liberal arts college was that I was able to offer lots of individual studies to help students explore their interests. Sometimes that meant adapting a course I had previously taught elsewhere to the needs of a student (“The Pursuit of Happiness,” for instance, was an intellectual and cultural history course I had developed as a lecture course at the University of Adelaide; a Quest student persuaded me to work with her to do it as a tutorial). Most of the time, that meant working with a student (or sometimes a group of five or six students) to create a course that filled a gap in our curriculum. These courses were intense, demanding, and hugely rewarding for me; I hope my students got as much out of these courses as I did.
Malls and Consumer Culture, History. 2013-2014.
Origins of War Crimes Legislation, History. 2011-2012.
Politics, Proxies, and National Identities in the Cold War, History. 2017-2018.
Post-Conflict Resolution: Women & Narrative, Gender Studies, History, and Literature. 2013-2014.
Reading America, History. 2016-2017.
Reason and Freedom (Independent Study), Art, History, Interdisciplinary, Literature, and Philosophy. 2012-2013.
Responsibility for War: Borders and Nations, History. 2019-2020.
Rhetoric, Rhetoric. 2012-2013.
Rhetoric (IS), Rhetoric. 2012-2013.
Social Technology, History and Technology. 2017-2018.
Sports Biography, History. 2012-2013.
Sports, Science, & Culture, History. 2011-2012.
Squamish Local History, History. 2011-2012.
Technological Turning Points, History and Technology. 2017-2018.
Touchstone Readings, History. 2014-2015.