You can find an up-to-date copy of my teaching portfolio here. In it, you will find my teaching statement, diversity statement, teaching résumé, sample course material, syllabi, and student evaluations. So that you can smoothly navigate my teaching portfolio using the hyperlinks contained in it, I recommend downloading it and viewing it in a pdf reader (e.g., Adobe Acrobat).
Below, you’ll find brief descriptions of the courses that I have taught.
Courses Taught as Primary Instructor
AI Ethics: Data Privacy, Exploitation, and Colonialism (Yerevan Academy of Linguistics & Philosophy, Summer 2026)
This one-week summer course introduced students to machine learning and related normative questions concerning data privacy, exploitation, and colonialism. Undergraduate students were mostly from Armenia, Iran, Russia, or Turkey.
Introduction to Political Philosophy (FSU, Spring 2026)
This introductory course surveyed major topics within political philosophy including legitimate authority, distributive justice, free speech, democratic theory, and multiculturalism.
Philosophy of Human Rights (FSU, Spring 2026)
This advanced, upper-division course covered major topics in the philosophy of human rights, such as the issue of what normatively grounds the existence of human rights in general.
Introduction to Philosophy (FSU, Fall 2025)
This introductory course surveyed major topics within ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, and epistemology.
Philosophy of Law (FSU, Fall 2025)
This advanced, upper-division course covered major topics in analytic jurisprudence, normative jurisprudence, and international jurisprudence (e.g., the relations between international law and colonialism).
Reasoning and Argument (USC, Spring 2024)
This introductory course covered classical logic. Students learned how to create truth tables and natural deductions in the setting of truth-functional (i.e., propositional) logic. Students also learned how to create (counter-)models and natural deductions in the setting of first-order logic. Throughout the course, emphasis was placed on the these formal tools’ practical applications—e.g., to evaluate whether an English argument was valid.
Ethics in the 21st Century: Business, Politics & Technology (USC Summer Programs, Summers 2023 and 2025)
This introductory course surveyed major topics in normative ethics, political philosophy, and applied ethics—with a special emphasis on business ethics and the ethics of technology. Although all students were high student students, this course was taught as an introductory college-level course.
Feminist Views on Agency and Autonomy (Yerevan Academy of Linguistics & Philosophy, Summer 2023)
This one-week summer course introduced students to adaptive preferences, oppressive double binds, and relational autonomy. Undergraduate students were mostly from Armenia, Iran, Russia, or Turkey.
Ethics (USC, Spring 2023)
This advanced, upper-division course covered major topics in normative ethics, especially those concerning ethical theories. I taught this course as part of USC’s Mentored Teaching Fellowship.
Philosophy (Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Summer 2022)
This introductory course surveyed some major topics in ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of religion. All students were gifted middle- or high-school students.
Mathematical Proofs (Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Summer 2021)
This introductory course covered some formal logic as well as simple set-theoretic proofs. This course was taught online synchronously. All students were gifted middle- or high-school students.
Logic for Philosophy (Yerevan Academy of Linguistics & Philosophy, Summer 2019)
This one-week summer course introduced students to key concepts in propositional logic, first-order logic, and modal logic. Special emphasis was placed on these formal tools’ philosophical applications—e.g., to formulate descriptivism, understood as a thesis on the semantics of proper names. Undergraduate students were mostly from Armenia, Iran, Russia, or Turkey.
