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Syllabi from my courses

In addition to facilitating a host of trainings and workshops, I teach on the faculty at the University of Wyoming. On this page, you can connect with examples of student work and syllabi for my courses. 

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And, a note: many of my courses involve contributors or co-instructors. This is a deliberate, labor-intensive-yet-educationally-powerful pedagogical move. Using this approach, I've been able to provide student co-instructors with vital, rare experience developing and co-teaching a course (not just doing grading or lab prep). I've also been able to provide students enrolled in my courses with robust, transdisciplinary expertise that is deeply synergistic with my own and thereby enhances their learning and career preparation. Co-teaching is more work, not half the work, and the results are more than one course's worth of learning gains. Given the benefits to students and extra labor required, co-teaching should be fostered, including appropriate compensation, calibration of job descriptions/teaching loads.

Public website featuring student work

Visit Engage Laramie Science to view almost a decade's worth of student work, including collaborations with the university art museum and public art projects, social critiques, scicomm project reflections, infographics, and more.

Scicomm Syllabi

Scholarly Writing Practices grad student programs
(every fall & spring)

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Campus-wide programs in collaboration with the UW SciComm Initiative, UW Communication Across the Curriculum, & UW Writing Center. Course co-developed and co-led with research collaborator.

Applied Principles of Science Communication (every spring)
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Has variously been listed as ZOO 4200, ZOO 5290, and ZOO 5890: Zoology & Physiology Department, UW

Science Career Next Steps
(Spring 2023)

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ZOO 5890-07: Zoology & Physiology Department, UW

I co-developed and co-led the course, providing teaching experience for a PhD student.

Exploring the Ecological Culture of Panama
(J-term 2023)

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HP 4152: Honors College and Zoology & Physiology Department, UW

I co-developed and co-led this course; I led scicomm and cultural elements, along with background instructional logistics, feedback, grading, etc.

Scientific Communication
(Fall 2021)

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ZOO 4100 + 4101: Zoology & Physiology Department, UW

I fully redesigned this iteration of the course.

Science of Science Communication
(Spring 2021)

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ECOL 5620-04/ZOO 5890-08: Program in Ecology & Zoology & Physiology Department, UW

Creative Approaches to Writing About Science 
(Spring 2020)
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ECOL 5620-01: Program in Ecology (interdisciplinary doctoral program), UW

Scientific Communication
(Fall 2019)

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ZOO 4100 & 4101: Zoology & Physiology Department, UW

I led a redesign and teaching of this course, with support from two colleagues.

Art & Science of Field Notes and Metadata
(Spring 2019)

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ZOO 5890: Zoology & Physiology Department,  UW. Cross-listed with Botany, Ecology, Geology, and Ecosystem Sciences and Management

I co-developed and co-led the course, providing teaching experience for a PhD student.

Visualizing Science
(Fall 2018)

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ZOO 5890-04: Zoology & Physiology Department, UW

Art of Science Communication
(Fall 2017)

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ZOO 5890-04: Zoology & Physiology Department, UW

I led teaching and course design; a colleague contributed to some class sessions and one project.

View:

Writing Across Topics in Energy
overhauled (Spring 2017)

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ERS 2500: School of Energy Resources, UW. 

My version of the course, led the next spring with "understudy" instructor taking over following year. View:

Writing Across Topics in Energy
(Spring 2016)

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ERS 2500: School of Energy Resources, UW

Syllabus co-developed with previous instructor; I led teaching.

Composition & Rhetoric
(Fall 2015)

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ENGL 1010-30: English Department, UW

My iteration of the common curriculum taught across ~40 sections. I received a student-nominated, campus-wide teaching award for this course.

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