steven l. gardiner  
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities & Social Science
Zayed University, Abu Dhabi • steve@slgardiner.com

Below you will find links to my teaching portfolio, including a list of courses taught, course syllabi, sample assignments, student evaluations, and a comprehensive pdf file containing most of the above (this is about 150 pages). The links on this page, if not quite comprehensive, represent a broad range of my teaching.

 
  A pdf file containing an extended selection of course information, syllabi and student evaluations - the pdf runs to over 140 pages.  
  A comprehensive list of courses taught excluding workshops and professional development courses taught to UAE diplomats (pdf format, 2 pages).  
 
Syllabi
 Below are links to syllabi from a number of my classes, listed by class title, description, year and insitution--the syllabi are in pdf or word format and each is approximately 10 pages in length.  
  * Peoples of the World. This is the local name for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Miami University. This particular syllabus is for an honors section I taught in Spring 2006.  
  * Identity: Race, Gender, Class. An upper level anthropology class cross-listed in gender studies and Latino Studies, taught at Miami University n Spring 2006.  
  * Social and Cultural Theory. An introduction to social and cultural theory for anthropology majors, taught at Beloit College in Spring 2005.  
  * Anthropology of Violence. An interdisciplinary look at the practice, theory and symbolism of violence, taught at Monmouth College in Spring 2007.  
  * Anthropology of War and the Possibility of Peace. An interdisciplinary introduction to biological, cultural, literary and political ideas about war and peace, taught at Beloit College in Fall 2004.  
  * Race, Demographics, and White Identity Politics in America. An interdisciplinary look at ideas about race, immigration and identity as they have developed in the United States since the Civil War, taught at Beloit College in Spring 2005.  
  * Cultures of Europe. An introduction to basic texts of European anthropology and theories associated with conceptualizing Europe and its Other, taught at Monmouth College in Spring 2007.  
  * War & Gender. An upper-level course in the anthropology of war as it intersects with the interdisciplinary study of gender, taught at Lahore University of Management Science in Summer 2008.  
  * Global Perspectives: Immigrants & Refugees. Part of the second year core at Monmouth College--each course is instructor designed to meet shared objectives dealing with issues of living in a global world, taught in Fall 2006.  
 

In my most recent position use of the propriatary BLACKBOARD system is obligatory for course material, but in general I perfer to build my own websites and in the future will integrate them more thoroughly with weblog and other tools.

  
 
Student Evaluations
Links to scanned copies of students evaluations, including comments, and statistical summaries.  
  Summary of student evaluations, including comments, for three courses taught during the semester: Research Methods (HSS-391), and two sections of Global Awareness II: Imperial Encounters (COL-155), 8-pages, pdf.  
  Summary of student evaluations, including comments, for three courses taught during the semester: Research Methods (HSS-391), Introduction to Culture & Society (HSS-261), and Global Awareness II: Imperial Encounters (COL-155), 8-pages, pdf.  
  Summary of student evaluations, including comments, for three courses taught during the semester: Introduction to Culture & Society (HSS-261), and Global Awareness III: History of the Twentieth Century (COL-250), and Writing in the Disciplines: Politics of Genocide (COL-240) 8-pages, pdf.  
  Summary of student evaluations, including comments, for two courses taught during the semester: Global Awareness III: History of the Twentieth Century (COL-250), and Writing in the Disciplines: Politics of Genocide (COL-240) 8-pages, pdf.  
  Student evaluations for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, including comments, 13-pges, pdf.  
  Student evaluations for Identity: Race, Gender, Class (ATH 325), including comments, 20-pges, pdf.  
  Student evaluations for Peoples of the World (ATH 175-Honors), including comments, 21-pges, pdf.  
  Student evaluations for Social and Cultural Theory(ATH 201), including comments, 36-pges, pdf.  
  Narrative comments for The Anthropology of War & the Possibility of Peace (ATH 375), 5-pges, pdf.  

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