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As a lecturer or as a temporary assistant professor, I've taught or co-taught the following twenty-two courses in Asian studies, political science, futures studies and research design on the Mānoa, Kapi‘olani and West O‘ahu campuses of the University of Hawai‘i System:

• POLS 110: Introduction to Political Science [15 times]
download Summer I 2007 syllabus
Spring 2000 syllabus used as model for honors "A-section" proposals,
Kapi‘olani Community College, 2000-2007
• POLS 110A: Introduction to Political Science (Honors) [2 times]
once as teaching assistant, with Rudolph J. Rummel.

• POLS 171: Introduction to Political Futures
as teaching assistant, with James A. Dator.
• POLS 371: Global Futures [2 times]

• POLS 120: Introduction to World Politics
• POLS 320: Global Issues
with Yoshie Kobayashi, Yoichiro Sato.
• ASAN 493: Globalization in Asia

• POLS 345D: Communism in Asia (20th-century Asian Nationalist and Communist Movements) [3 times]
with Dae-Sook Suh.
• ASAN 312: Contemporary Asian Civilizations
• ASAN 493: Globalization in Asia

• POLS 307/345H: Japanese Politics
Spring 2001 syllabus, reprinted in Sue Davis (ed.), A View into the Classroom: Syllabi by Award Winning Teachers, new ed., Political Science Course Syllabi Collection series (Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 2001-2008), pp. 113-123. Also featured on The National Endowment for Democracy website for the Comparative Democracy Section of the American Political Science Association.

• ASAN 320C: Asian Nations Studies: China [8 times; also, Spring 2009]
• ASAN 485: Contemporary Chinese Development
download Fall 2007 syllabus
• ASAN 491C: China's Relations with Contemporary Asia

• POLS 130: Introduction to American Politics [6 times]
• POLS 130A: Introduction to American Politics (Honors) [2 times]
• POLS 322/328: American Foreign Policy
• POLS 330: American Politics I
• POLS 337: American Political Theory (African American Social and Political Thought, 1850-1980)

• HON 101: 1st Year Honors Experience I ("Mānoa and its Neighborhoods")
with Jon Goss
• POLS 310/395: Political Inquiry & Analysis [6 times]
2002 syllabus hosted by Inter University Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods.

• HON 495: Introduction to Research [8 times]
variously, with Laura E. Lyons, Cynthia G. Franklin, Petra Lenz, Susan M. Schultz, James E. Caron, Craig Howes; and twice solo. Download Spring 2007 syllabus.
• Research supervisory experiences as a mentor for students in SOCS 468S (Senior Project [political science]) and HON 495 ("Senior Honors Project" are outlined on the Thesis committees page.

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• As adjunct faculty I taught "Introduction to American Government" to the final graduating class at the former Kansai Gaidai Hawaii College during AY1997/1998.

• In 2007, I returned to teach "Contemporary Asian Issues" and "Introduction to Comparative Government" courses at the successor TransPacific Hawaii College.

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• Short-term Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Center for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University 华东师范大学, Shanghai, P.R.C., May-June 2008.

• Institute Speaker, Short Term Program, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies (now the School of Pacific and Asian Studies), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; students from University of Louisville, 2006, and Seoul National University, 2007.

• Visiting Research Fellow (and Fulbright Scholar), Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines - Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, AY1995/1996.

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• Day-to-day substitute classroom teacher, Chicago Public Schools (South Side), Grades K-8, AY1988/1989; mathematics, social studies and other subjects; bilingual education (in Spanish).

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