{"id":6,"date":"2011-05-14T15:50:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T15:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:42:46","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At Tufts, I direct the major in <a href=\"https:\/\/as.tufts.edu\/civicstudies\/\">Civic Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have taught the following undergraduate courses at Tufts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Introduction to Civic Studies, annually since 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduction to Public Policy, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>20th Century Political Philosophy (2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hannah Arendt (2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Political Philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King,\u00a0 2020, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Introduction to Philosophy, 2016 and 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Education for Active Citizenship, 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facebook, Social Networking, and Community Organizing,\u00a02009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also frequently taught in contexts beyond academia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/?pid=714\">The annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies<\/a> at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship &amp; Public Service (Tufts University), each year from 2009-2019. Enrolled graduate students, faculty, and activists from many countries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An annual European Summer Institute of Civic Studies, at Chernivtsi University (Ukraine) in 2015,\u00a0 Augsburg (Germany) in 2016, Chernivtsi in 2017, the Munich area in 2018, and a short version at the Kyiv School of Economics in 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Citizenship and Deliberative Democracy,&#8221; a seminar for professors at <span class=\"st\">Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey, Mexico City, 2014.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High school classes on various civic topics, taught weekly between 2002 and 2007 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us\/~nwest\/\">Northwestern High School<\/a> in Hyattsville, MD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Before moving to Tufts in 2018, I had taught these courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An interdisciplinary graduate proseminar on Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy, co-taught (three times) with colleagues from Philosophy and Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Political Theory and Philosophy of Law, undergraduate lecture courses offered by the University of Maryland Philosophy Department in the late 1990s.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A graduate seminar on Information Technology Policy, co-taught (twice) with Robert Wachbroit in the Maryland School of Public Affairs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy, two continuing education seminars offered by Georgetown University in 1991-3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tutorials on Nietzsche and Schopenhauer offered through Brasenose College, Oxford, 1990-1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Tufts, I direct the major in Civic Studies. I have taught the following undergraduate courses at Tufts: I have also frequently taught in contexts beyond academia: Before moving to Tufts in 2018, I had taught these courses:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34986,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/34986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}