Courses

Below, I provide the most updated syllabi for my courses I have taught.

PSY-101: Introduction to Psychology

  • Fall 2024 Syllabus

    • Also taught as a single semester course Fall 2023; Summer 2018 (see PSY-101 & PSY-102 for additional times where PSY-101 was taught but as a two-semester sequence).

I went with a completely different format for the course this semester after being frustrated with grading and having read a few different pedagogical books on alternative grading practices. This course applies a pseudo-Specifications grading policy.

To help students, I designed two different Google Sheets to help both track their progress in the course as well as help them predict the grade they would like to receive based on the amount of effort they put into the course. You can see them below:

In Introduction to Psychology and Social Psychology, I generally have classes vote on basic format of exams: whether they are take home or not, the types of questions to be asked (how many MC, how many short answer, how many essay, how many matching). In PSY-101, this tends to work via averages and polling because there are multiple sections.

PSY-332: Psychology of Public Policy (PSY-393 at W&J)

Spring 2024 Syllabus

Also taught Fall 2021; Fall 2022, and pending Spring 2025.

This course is my upper-level seminar course. Since it is a 300 level class, mainly with juniors and seniors, students organize on the first class to bargain assignments weights and class policies. The goal of the course is to lobby Congressional staff on an issue that they select backed with psychological science.

This course received the 2022 Action Teaching Award from SPSSI.

PSY-209: Social Psychology

  • Spring 2024 Syllabus

    • Also taught Fall 2023, and pending Spring 2025.

PSY-215: Experimental Psychology

Fall 2022 Syllabus

BIO/MTH-245: Applied Statistics in the Life Sciences

Spring 2023: Syllabus: (Hosted on Google Docs)

Also taught Spring 2022.

Self-designed R Labs include:

Blocking and Factorial ANOVA

Repeated Measures

PSY-495/447: Advanced Lab in Political and Social Psychology

PSY-102: Introduction to Psychology II

At W&J, we taught Intro in a 2 part sequence. This is part two.

PSY-113: Coding in R for Beginners

PSY-101: Introduction to Psychology I

This course is the first in a two-part sequence of Introduction to Psychology at W&J. Facing COVID-19, I turned this course into an activity-heavy course. This covers the first 8 chapters in Myers & DeWall, from Brain and Neurons to Memory.

PSY-347: Psychology of Human Rights

This course was my first seminar course designed in graduate school, and I brought it with me to W&J. The goal was an interdisciplinary course where we applied psychological research to small pieces of literature and media about human rights. Students were tasked with writing a research paper that examined a piece of media or literature of their own choice and how they can apply and see psychology within that.

  • Spring 2021

    • Also taught in Spring 2018 in graduate school.

Psychological Statistics You Can Handle

Github

  • Pre-print of paper

  • This project received the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science’s Grants In Aid To Improving Psychological Science in Spring 2023.

This class is hosted in the swirl() package. This is an interactive learning class in R. The class is designed to be a supplement to Research Methods, teaching students how to code in R. Students are given chances to choose from multiple choice questions, input command line answers, and even edit R Scripts. Students are taught how to use packages such as ggplot2, the tidyverse, stats, and psych. Students are able to rate each lesson and provide feedback to the instructor so I can better improve the class.