Teaching

My teaching experience covers a range of topics related to political psychology, political communication, and social scientific research methods. Below is a list of courses I have taught at Leiden University, the University of Maryland, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the Universität Koblenz-Landau (Germany). Clicking on a course title will open the syllabus of the course in Adobe pdf format.

Graduate Courses

• Public Opinion and Political Decision-Making (Leiden, 2016)
• Advanced Academic and Professional Skills (Leiden, 2016)
• Political Communication and Media Effects (Leiden, 2016)
• Advanced Methodology (Leiden, 2016)
• Master Thesis Seminar (Leiden, 2015)
• Quantitative Data Collection and Analysis (Leiden, 2014)
• Research Master Thesis Lab (Leiden, 2013)
• Quantitative Research Methods (Leiden, 2010)
• Theories and Methods (Leiden, 2010)
• Political Psychology (Leiden, 2009)
• Seminar in Mediated Communication: Political Media Effects (UMD, 2004)
• Seminar in Political Communication (UMD, 1999)
• Diffusion of Innovations (UMD, 2001)
• Statistics and Society (SUNY Stony Brook, 1998)

Undergraduate Courses

• Bachelor Thesis Project: Political Psychology (Leiden, 2015)
• Research Methods in Political Science (Leiden, 2012)
• Einführung in die Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung (Uni Landau, 2004)
• Research Methods in Communication (UMD, 2004)
• Seminar in Mediated Communication (UMD, 2004)
• Mediated Communication (UMD, 2001)
• Introduction to Communication Inquiry (UMD, 2000)
• Political Psychology (SUNY Stony Brook, 1998)
• Social Psychology of Politics (SUNY Stony Brook, 1997)
• Mass Media in American Politics (SUNY Stony Brook, 1997)

Last Update: 3/2/2017