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Teaching

2024 Fall

Hagerstown Community College, Maryland, USA

Introduction to Philosophy (PHL-103-05), 15 weeks (full-term), 3 credits

Introduction to Philosophy (PHL-103-06), 15 weeks (full-term), 3 credits

World Religions (HUM-214-03), 15 weeks (full-term), 3 credits

World Religions (HUM-214-05), asynchronous online, 15 weeks (full-term), 3 credits [online/distant learning]

 

2024 Summer

Hagerstown Community College, Maryland, USA

Introduction to Philosophy, asynchronous online, 12 weeks (full-term), 3 credits [online/distant learning],

Introduction to Philosophy, asynchronous online, 12 weeks (full-term), 3 credits [online/distant learning]

 

Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA

Philosophy of Love and Sex (Phil-125), online, 5 weeks (full-term), 1 credit [online/distant learning]

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2023/2024 Spring

Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA

Philosophy of Love and Sex (Phil-125), 3hrs, 14 weeks (full-term), 1 credit [on campus]

How should we live? An Introduction to African Philosophical Ethics of the 20th and 21st century (Phil-140), 3hrs, 14 weeks (full-term), 1 credit [on campus]

Existentialism (Phil-225), 3hrs, 14 weeks (full-term), 1 credit

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2023 Fall       

Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA

Introduction to Philosophy (Phil-101), 3hrs, 14 weeks (full-term), 1 credit [on campus]

Ethics of Tragedy and Disaster (Phil-115), 3hrs, 14 weeks (full-term), 1 credit [on campus]

Philosophy of Love and Sex (Phil-125), 3hrs, 14 weeks (full-term), 1 credit [on campus]

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2022/2023 Term 2/3

SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies)/University of London, UK

Comparative Ethics, 158000199-A22/23, 3hrs, 11 weeks (full-term), 15 credits [on campus]

The Margins of Philosophy, 158000116-A22/23, 1hr, 11 weeks (full-term), 30 credits [on campus]

Dissertation in Religion in Global Politics, 15PSRC987-A22/23, 11 weeks (full-term), 60 credits [online/distant learning]

Independent Study Project (22/23), 158000194-A22/23, 2hrs, 11 weeks (full-term), 30 credits [online/distant learning]

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2022 Term 1

SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies)/University of London, UK

Philosophy, Race, and Racism, 158000207-A22/23, 3hrs, 11 weeks (full-term), 15 credits [on campus]

Reading and Writing Philosophy, 158000208 - A22/23, 3hrs, 11 weeks (full-term), 15 credits [on campus]

Independent Study Project (21/22), 158000194-A22/2, 2hrs, 11 weeks (full-term), 30 credits [online/distant learning]

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2022 Term 2/3

SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies)/University of London, UK

Metaphysics in Comparative Perspective, 158000198-A21/22, 3hrs, 11 weeks (full-term), 15 credits [on campus and online/distant learning]

Comparative Ethics, 158000199-A21/22, 3hrs, 11 weeks (full-term), 15 credits [on campus and online/distant learning]

The Margins of Philosophy, 158000116-A21/22, 1hr, 11 weeks (full-term), 30 credits [online/distant learning]

Independent Study Project (21/22), 158000194-A21/22, 2hrs, 11 weeks (full-term), 30 credits [online/distant learning]

 

2021 Summer

University of Paderborn, Germany

Philosophie und Superiorismus/Philosophy and Superiorism [online/distant learning] Full Bachelor Course (15 semester periods per week) given as Guest Lecturer at University of Paderborn, Germany, in cooperation with Ana Rodrigues

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2006-2014

Teaching at Summer Academies for gifted school pupils with the organization Jugendbildung in Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft (Youth Education in Society and Science)

Course topics:

  • On love and morals, individuality and life story, trauma and contingency (2006)

  • Bearing the unbearable. A philosophical analysis of trauma (2007)

  • Principles and problems of zoological biology (2008)

  • The passion of Christ as a historical-philosophical problem (2009)

  • Animal communities in the Serengeti (2010)

  • A philosophical analysis of love (2011)

  • Man destined from birth to die! Existentialism in German Baroque literature (2012)

  • Existentialism in Middle High German epic poetry (2013)

  • What should I do? An introduction to practical moral philosophy (2014)

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