Well, I accomplished it! I created and completed the teaching of a brand new introductory course entitled, “Understanding and Appreciating Our Global World: A Multicultural Perspective,” or in otherwords – Global Cultures. This is a course that I felt our university and students desperately needed and in fact they do! The students in this very … Read more
A few nights ago, I had the pleasure to attend the ECU Honors College 2015 Honors 3100 & EC Scholar Internship Showcase event. Zoe Hinton & Matt Early – the two Honor students that I co-mentored with Dr. Todd Fraley presented their internship project entitled, “Let’s Talk About Race.” I was very proud of their … Read more
As a professor at ECU, I often get requests from a number of students to assist them with their individual projects. This spring semester, I received a request from junior Torre Blake – a junior in the School of Communications and a journalism major — to help her complete a video project on health. The … Read more
Well, it is 2015 and I am finally catching up with my updates for my “Course Happenings” activities for the year. To illustrate how busy I have been since the start of Spring 2015, it is spring break now (March) and I finally have a chance to update my “Course Happenings” Blog! Where has the … Read more
It’s truly a joy to go through another semester teaching college courses particularly this Cultural Anthropology course! As usual, I had another enjoyable time with all the students in this Cultural Anthropology class. There were times in which we had very lively discussions and feedback on a wide array of cultural anthropological issues and there … Read more
Each semester, I teach an undergraduate course and a graduate course. For the fall, I teach MPH 6007 Global Public Health for the Department of Public Health – MPH program. It is entirely online. This MPH 6007 course is also apart of my Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) Graduate Certificate Online program in the … Read more
It’s another fall season and I am delighted to be teaching Cultural Anthropology again. Let me see, I believe it’s been almost 26 years since I first started teaching Cultural Anthropology and anthropology courses at the university level and it’s always different each year. This fall Cultural Anthropology course is another fantastic class in which … Read more
On April 23rd, the 5th Annual ECU Anthropology Alumni Lecture Series featured our final speaker – Emma Browning. Emma is a 2011 graduate receiving her bachelor’s in Anthropology and Theatre Arts. She was a double major at ECU with a concentration in Archaeology and a minor in French. Emma also has a Master’s degree in … Read more
On April 16th, the 5th Annual ECU Anthropology Alumni Lecture Series featured our second speaker – Lauren Souther. Lauren is a 2012 graduate receiving her Master’s degree in Anthropology with a concentration in Bioarchaeology. The title of her talk was: “Cultural Resource Management: A Career in Archaeology” As a reminder, the purpose of the ECU … Read more
On April 2nd, the 5th Annual ECU Anthropology Alumni Lecture Series began and our first speaker for the lecture series was Bach Pham. Bach is a 2012 graduate receiving a Master’s degree in Anthropology with a concentration in Cultural Anthropology. The title of his talk was: “So You’re a What?: Preparing to Work as a … Read more