Adam Jones
Statement of Teaching Interests

In my seven years of part-time employment at Langara College, I have taught introductory-level courses in Latin American history and politics, the politics of the "Third World," and Peace & Conflict Studies. Peer and student evaluations for all these courses have been strong (see the "Professional Qualifications" page of this website). I would certainly be prepared to instruct in any of these areas at the undergraduate level, and in Latin American and "Third World" studies at the graduate level. Possible areas of graduate seminar concentration include: media and the "Third World"; models of development; revolution and counter-revolution in Latin America; and Latin American gender and politics.

I have not yet had the opportunity to teach undergraduate or graduate courses on the media and democracy, or the "wired world" of new media. But I have published widely on these themes, and prepared extensive materials for a course on "Democracy and the Media," including an outline and reading package. (An upper-level seminar course that I was scheduled to teach on at UBC was unfortunately cancelled.) My International Relations background is similarly strong, and would easily equip me to teach introductory courses or graduate seminars (e.g., on civil and ethnic conflict, security studies, and gender and I.R.).

Genocide studies is one of the most interesting emerging sub-fields of Comparative Politics, with considerable relevance as well to International Relations. I have already developed a workshop series on "Gender and Genocide" for planned presentation in Oslo, Norway next year. A survey course on twentieth-century genocides, at either the undergraduate or graduate level, would also be well within my reach.

Other areas in which I consider myself capable of teaching or supervising at the undergraduate level include: American foreign policy; Middle East politics; Balkans politics; and Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. I have T.A.'d undergraduate courses on International Relations, Political Theory, Middle East politics, and Canadian politics.

Created by Adam Jones, 1999.
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Last updated: 9 November 1999.