Teaching
University of Texas at Austin
Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
2025
MALS 301: Intro to Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the historical, cultural, and social experiences of Mexican Americans and Latina/os in the United States. Students will engage with research and literary works that explore central topics in the field, including colonialism/coloniality, (im)migration, language, health, identity, and activism. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the course will consider the shared and distinct experiences of Mexican and Latina/o Americans in the U.S. across time and geographical settings. We will also discuss race/racialization, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as the study of these issues within Mexican American, Chicanx, and Latina/o Studies. The course will incorporate research articles, fiction writing, films, art, music, podcasts, and community engagement activities as course assignments.
University of California at Los Angeles
César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies
2020
CCAS 188: Special Courses in Chicana and Chicano Studies: Latinx Language Brokers
This original course reviews research concerning language brokering in Latinx communities by first and second-generation immigrant Latinx children and adult children. Consideration of psychological, social, economical, political, and family impacts of language brokering.
2020
(Fall and Winter)
CCAS 188-5: Working Together: How immigrant families work together to Survive and Succeed in the U.S.
This original course provides an overview of the economic, labor, psychological, cultural, educational, and political experiences of Latina/o families in the United States—special consideration of children’s responsibility and role in the family unit.
2021
CCASM 127: Farmworker Movements, Social Justice, and UFW Legacy
Historical and social context of farmworker organizing, including its multiracial origins and its influence on the fight for equality of working women. Specific focus on the organizing of United Farm Workers and Farm Laborers Organizing Committee, and their relationship to AFL-CIO, other unions, and their influence on the Chicano Movement. Special consideration of health and educational disparities within agricultural communities. (Cross listed with Labor Studies M127).
2021
CCAS 163: The Bilingual Advantage
This Original course, review of bilingual research regarding potential benefits of bilingualism, and exploration of social, cultural, and political framing and challenges to bilingualism. Special consideration of second language acquisition and child language brokering.
University of California at Irvine
College of Education
2020
EDUC 146: Education, Learning, & Culture
Exploration of learning and development through a cultural lens, drawing from a range of research traditions and disciplines to broaden understanding of theories that inform teaching and learning in formal and informal settings.
2021
EDUC 50: Origins, Purposes, and Central Issues in K-12 Education
This original course provides an overview of the economic, labor, psychological, cultural, educational, and political experiences of Latina/o families in the United States—special consideration of children’s responsibility and role in the family unit.
2020, 2021
EDUC 361: The Adolescent Learner
Issues of adolescent development and learning in family, school, and community contexts from biological, psychological, cognitive, and social perspectives. Focuses on how adolescents learn, what motivates them to learn, and how schools and teachers contribute to adolescents’ growth. Restriction: Master of Arts in Teaching Degree students only.
2021
EDUC 173: Cognition and Learning in Educational Settings
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Overview of classic positions on the mind, human abilities, and intelligence, especially as related to academic achievement. Contrasting views: psychometric versus information processing; experimental versus correlational research. (Cross-listed with Psychological Science 192T).
Occidental College
Department of Education
2019, 2020
EDU 205: Language Studies: Second Language Acquisition Pedagogy and Politics
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Analysis of the English language development of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking skills of elementary and secondary students in culturally and linguistically diverse public-school classrooms. Includes the examination of theories and factors (both pedagogical and political) in first and second language development universals and differences in language structure and use and the transference of first and second language literacy skills.
2019, 2020
EDU 142: Language Studies
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Mandarin & Spanish Language/Literacy Lab grades 1-5 Occidental students who are Spanish or Mandarin speakers support K-6 children in Dual Language learning on-site at a language lab.