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SUMEET PATWARDHAN
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Teaching Experience 
While at Macalester College:
  • Instructor of Record
    • South Asian Moral and Political Philosophy (PHIL 394), Fall 2024: syllabus
    • Philosophy of Law (PHIL 224), Fall 2024: syllabus
    • Introduction to Ethics (PHIL 121), Spring 2024 (x2): syllabus
    • Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy (PHIL 321), Fall 2023: syllabus
    • Senior Capstone Seminar, with Geoff Gorham (PHIL 489), Fall 2023: syllabus 
While at the University of Michigan:
  • Instructor of Record
    • Ethics (Phil 361), Summer 2021: syllabus
  • ​Discussion Section Instructor
    • Knowledge and Reality (PHIL 383), for Brian Weatherson, Fall 2022: handout on testimony in classical Indian epistemology; handout on how to read philosophy​ 
    • Contemporary Moral Problems (PHIL 355), for Dan Lowe, Spring 2020: handout on argument reconstruction; handout on Norcross's arguments about factory-farmed meat
    • Moral Principles and Problems (PHIL 160), for Dan Jacobson, Fall 2019: section syllabus; midterm study guide
    • Introduction to Political Economy (PPE 300), for Meena Krishnamurthy, Spring 2019: handout on Locke, property, and colonialism; handout on Ostrom's analysis of common pool resource problems 
    • Introduction to Critical Reasoning (PHIL 183), for David Manley, Fall 2018: handout on Bayesian updating
Additional Sample Syllabi
​Introduction to Feminist Philosophy
  • Sample Syllabus
  • Description: What is gender-based oppression? What are its concrete manifestations? How can we resist it? This course is dedicated to investigating these three questions through a philosophical lens. We’ll start by getting clear on some core concepts: (trans)feminism, intersectionality, (gender-based) oppression, and gender. The rest of the course will be split into units centered around different domains in which gender-based oppression manifests: marriage and the family; bodies and space; sex; and knowledge and communication. Throughout each unit, we’ll discuss diverse forms of resistance to such oppression. 
Introduction to Political Economy
  • Sample Syllabus
  • Description: On one interpretation, political science is the study of how power is produced, distributed, used, and lost. Similarly, economics is traditionally understood as the study of how goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed. Moral and political philosophy, at their core, study how we as individuals and as groups should organize and live our lives. Political economy is the integration of these three disciplines. In other words, political economists use tools from all three disciplines to both describe and evaluate interacting political and economic processes and institutions. This course is a theoretical and applied introduction to political economy in five main parts (described in more detail in the linked syllabus). 
Other Pedagogical Experience
Graduate Student Instructional Consultant (GSIC)
University of Michigan
Summer 2022-Spring 2023

As one of twenty-three GSICs employed by UM’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, I provided teaching support and facilitated classroom observations for graduate instructors across the university, and I participated in a GSIC learning community focused on pedagogical development. 
Graduate Student Philosophy Department Teaching Mentor (GSM)
University of Michigan
​Fall 2021-Spring 2022

​As one of two GSMs, I assisted with teaching orientations for new graduate student instructors; I observed them teach and gave feedback; and I had meetings with any instructors who requested teaching support. 
Teaching Assistant and Program Facilitator 
​Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP), Cornell University
Summer 2018

TASP is a free, six-week educational experience for high school juniors. TASPers participate in a rigorous daily seminar while also building a robust, democratic, self-governing community. I was one of two ‘factotums’ – i.e., a teaching assistant and overall program facilitator – at the Cornell University location. There, I was attached to the Cornell II seminar: Facing Fictions (taught by Blakey Vermeule and William Flesch).
Contact Info:
​Email: [email protected]
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