Greetings Everyone, I want to welcome you to my Course Happenings Blog! This is the place where all of my students, colleagues, staff, and administrators can check out some of the latest activities and events associated with my major courses at ECU. In particular, I will highlight my undergraduate courses in Anthropology and my graduate courses in … Read more
Wow….I cannot believe that it has been over a year since my last Course Happenings entry! Where has the time gone? Since I have another university Blog – my ERHD (Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities), I tend to forget this blog which focuses primarily on my Undergraduate courses in Anthropology. Nonetheless, I am BACK on … Read more
Yes, I am BACK!!! It is the first week of classes in January 2022 and I have returned to my COURSE HAPPENINGS Blog! It has been almost 2 YEARS since my last entry in my Course Happenings Blog. Talk about a devastating impact that COVID-19 pandemic has not only affected our daily lives completely but … Read more
It’s February already! We are fully into the new SPRING 2020 semester and I am very delighted to be teaching my regular spring course – Race and Ethnic Relations: Discovering New Solutions! This is still a relatively new class that I started to teach in 2017 for the Department of Anthropology and it continues to be … Read more
Wow..time flies by fast. The academic year of 2019-2020 is underway and my Cultural Anthropology class has already taken their first fieldwork trip outside with me. I am VERY EXCITED to start another academic year and it looks like my new Cultural Anthropology class has a wide variety of majors and students from the various … Read more
Well, this is my Final seminar course that I am teaching for Honors College. The actual title of this Honors Seminar course was – “ECU Global Explosion: Developing and Organizing a Campus-wide Event.” HRNS 2011. Initially, students in this Honors seminar were supposed to organize and develop a campus wide event for ECU students yet … Read more
Wow, this Spring semester is flying by and this is the first time that I am able to highlight one of my Spring courses — Race and Ethnic Relations: Discovering New Solutions. This is the second time in which I am teaching this new course that I feel needs to be taught in our Anthropology … Read more
Well, here we are again. Another Fall Semester and new academic year (2018 – 2019) has started! I can’t believe how the summer went by so fast and now we are starting a brand new year!! Normally, I would have posted about my fall classes earlier yet we were interrupted by Hurricane Florence during the … Read more
Well, it finally happened! My new study abroad course was approved and I took my first set of graduate public health students to Vienna, Austria and London, England. This course was a new course that I have been working on for the past 3 years. It finally was placed into the ECU system and enough … Read more
It’s a brand new semester and I am teaching a brand new course entitled, “Race and Ethnic Relations: Discovering New Solutions.” Although it took a while for this course to be approved, I felt that it was necessary to establish an undergraduate course like this one simply because there was nothing in our Anthropology department … Read more
Here is the other side of my lecture hall with the rest of my students!