- “Development Theory in the African Context”
- “Technology and Development in Africa”
Certificate Course: Interculturality, Justice and Global Change
Department of Philosophy, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
Spring 2021
This is a post-graduate course designed to acquaint aspiring scholars and practitioners of international economic development policy to foundational ideas and current trends in the field.
“Ethics,” Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago.
Teacher of Record – Summer 2015 (online); Spring 2015.
Teaching Assistant – Spring – 2014; Spring 2013; Spring 2012; Fall 2012.
This course introduces students to ethical theories – Utilitarianism, Deontology, Virtue Eth-ics and Ethics of Care. The course aims include enabling students fairly and critically assess various moral theories and the arguments given for and against them. Also, to be able to ar-ticulate the relevant ethical values, principles, rights, and virtues from the point of view of each of the parties involved.
“Philosophy and Persons,” Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago.
Teacher of record – Summer 2015 (On line); Fall 2014.
Utilizing texts and major figures in ethics, value theory and metaphysics, the course exam-ines different aspects of our existence in an attempt to develop a better understanding of the kinds of beings we are. Specifically questions of knowledge, our existence as both spiritu-al/mental as well as material/physical; and questions of ourselves and others, or ethics.
“Social and Political Philosophy,” Philosophy Department, Loyola University, Chicago.
Teaching Assistant – Fall 2013; Fall 2010; Spring 2011; Fall 2012.
The course addresses issues of domestic and global social justice: inequality, poverty, and human migration. The first part of the course examines how classical (E.g., Plato, Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau) and contemporary (E.g., Charles Mills, John Rawls and Obafemi Awolowo) theorists have addressed social injustice. The second more applied part focuses on contemporary social and global economic challenges like poverty and migration.
Community Education Workshops
Development work entails communicating planned policy solutions or newly formulated policies to stakeholders. In the course of my professional career, I have planned and imple-mented many of such workshops in rural and urban communities, with literate and some-times illiterate participants.