TEACHING

Psychological Science & Society

Co-Instructor

Taught a 4-week introductory psychology course to a class of 30 students for the USC Summer Programs. Supervised field trips to impactful locations such as the LA Museum of Tolerance, and teambuilding at Fulcrum Adventures.

Topics: research methods, mental health & illness, language and learning, culture and society, and mindfulness.

Statistics

Teaching Assistant

Led weekly discussion sections where I taught students to complete statistics problems using SPSS and introduced them to the statistical language R. Graded exams and coursework.

Topics: central limit theorem, probability distributions, properties of the mean, mean distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, using R

Behavioral Neuroscience

Teaching Assistant

Led weekly discussion and review sections to enhance course concepts.

Topics: neurons and the nervous system, pharmacology, research methods, sensory and motor systems, biological rhythms, reproductive behavior, emotion, ingestion, learning and memory, communicating, development, disorder.

Learning and Memory

Teaching Assistant

1:1 and 1:2 tutoring of undergraduate and high school students in statistics through freelance tutoring and a part-time position tutoring student athletes for SUNY University at Buffalo.

Covered simple statistics, the normal distribution, hypothesis testing and regression concepts.

Statistics

Tutor

Led weekly discussion and review sections to enhance course concepts.

Topics: Classical and instrumental conditioning, reinforcement and punishment, schedules of learning, habituation, verbal learning, imitation, memory retention and retrieval, individual differences, spatial and motor learning, rule-governed behavior.