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
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!
Amazing!!! Our Fall 2017 Cultural Anthropology & Intro to Ethnic Studies class has completed! This is the very FIRST time that I combined an Introductory Cultural Anthropology class with a brand new Introductory to Ethnic Studies class this semester! The primary reason for combining both classes was that we covered similar content material and that … Read more
WE ARE BACK!! It’s the beginning of another academic year here at East Carolina University and I am delighted to get the semester started. One of the classes that I teach during the fall semester is an undergraduate course – Cultural Anthropology. On the very first day of class, the large lecture hall (Rm 265) was … Read more