FALL 2023 SEMESTER – I am BACK with UPDATES OF COURSES!

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

UPDATE – COVID-19 IMPACT ON MY ECU CLASSES & BEGINNING AGAIN IN 2022

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

SPRING 2020 – Race and Ethnic Relations: Discovering New Solutions

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

Fall 2019 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY CLASS

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

Honors Seminar Class – Spring 2019 – Improving Race Relations at ECU

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

Fall 2018 Cultural Anthropology and Ethnic Studies Class

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

Summer 2018 New Course – Global Public Health Study Abroad Experience – MPH 6017

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

2018 New Course – Race and Ethnic Relations: Discovering New Solutions

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