If you don’t count the years that I taught swimming, then my formal teaching experience began in 1978 when I started teaching the US Command and General Staff Officers course as a Reserve Officer for the Baltimore USAR School. I taught all six phases of the course for six years. In addition to purely military subjects of interest to Army Officers there were a number of general subjects in the geography and political science areas. You might rightly say that teaching in the Military is not like ordinary teaching, but in the case of Officer Training there are many similarities with ordinary college courses.
Formal
college teaching began after I retired from government service in 1987. I was hired by City Colleges of
In
January 1992 I also began to teach for UMUC, and since that time have taught 49
classes, including 36 iterations of the GVPT 170 American Government
course. Other courses have been GVPT 457
(American Foreign Policy) (4), GVPT 388 (now called GVPT399V) 6 times
previously, GVPT 240 (4) GVPT 399K twice and 1 each of GVPT 300 (International
Political Relations) , GVPT 100 and 200.
Most of these classes were taught in the
I
was honored to be appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science.
This
current class will be my thirty-third Distance Education class, almost all of
which have used Web Tycho.
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