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My teaching interests span the biological sciences. I can teach courses ranging from introductory biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, ornithology and physiology. My wide interests in biology (and beyond) facilitate teaching collaborations with my colleagues. |
Experience During my Ph.D. studies at Cornell I actively pursued the opportunity to teach and to involve undergraduates in my research. I have thirteen semesters of teaching experience at Cornell, including three courses of my own design. I received the �Outstanding Teaching Assistant� award from the Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell. One of my most challenging teaching experiences was designing and teaching two of our department�s Knight Institute's �Writing in the Majors� courses. These classes are five credit courses which adopt a writing-intensive approach to mastering course material. The first of these courses was a second-year introductory course on animal behavior (BioNB 420). Students attended a three-credit faculty lecture course and my two credit course that involved discussions, additional lectures, field trips, and laboratory work. I designed and taught the two credit course. Students were exempt from the lecture course exams: instead they completed a rigorous set of writing assignments including maintenance of a lecture journal, peer review of other students� writing, a primary research paper on mate choice in humans, a literature review, a take-home exam, and several short essays. The second of the �Writing in the Majors� courses I taught was an advanced senior/grad class: �animal social behavior� (BioNB 427) lectured by Stephen T. Emlen. Here my responsibilities included guiding students through writing essays, take-home exams, scientific papers and practice grant applications. I also gave a number of guest lectures to the class on subjects ranging from sexual selection to sex-ratio theory to techniques for genetic parentage testing. After finishing my PhD, I lectured Cornell�s first offering of �introduction to animal behavior� in the summer semester. I took on all responsibilities for this undergraduate class: designing the entire course, teaching five 75-minute lectures each week, writing and grading exams, and instructing students through various writing and lab assignments. |
Courses Taught |
| Position | Course | Title | Lecturer | Date | Info |
| Sessional Professor | BioNB 221 | Introduction to Behavior (Cornell) | J. Dale | Jun'01-Aug'01 | syllabus |
| Laboratory TA | Bio G 103-104 | Biological Sciences (Cornell) | C. Hopkins | Sep'98-May'99 | . |
| Lecture TA | BioNB 427 | Animal Social Behavior (Cornell) | S.T. Emlen | Sep'97-Dec'97 | . |
| Instructor* | BioNB 420 | Animal Behavior (Cornell) | P.W. Sherman | Sep'97-Dec'97 | . |
| Head TA | BioNB 221 | Introduction to Behavior (Cornell) | H.K. Reeve | Sep'96-Dec'96 | . |
| Instructor* | BioNB 420 | Animal Behavior (Cornell) | H.K. Reeve | Sep'96-Dec'96 | . |
| Head TA | BioNB 221 | Introduction to Behavior (Cornell) | T. Seeley | Sep'95-Dec'95 | . |
| Lecture TA (double) | BioNB 221 | Introduction to Behavior (Cornell) | S.T. Emlen | Sep'94-Dec'94 | . |
| Laboratory TA | Bio G 103 | Biological Sciences (Cornell) | A. Blackler | Sep'93-Dec'93 | . |
| Field Leader | Ornithology | Spring Field Ornithology - Cornell Lab of Ornithology | S. Kress | Mar'93-May'93 | flyer |
| Laboratory TA | Bio G 103-104 | Biological Sciences (Cornell) | A. Blackler | Sep'92-May'93 | . |
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TA = teaching assistantship which is part-time work (20 hours per week per TAship) * I developed and taught this advanced course (comprised of lectures, discussions and student research projects) |