Teaching

My teaching covers aging, health, inequality, and quantitative methods. At the University of Texas - San Antonio, I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses across sociology and demography programs.

Undergraduate Courses

SOC 3203: Gerontology / Aging in Society

This course introduces students to population aging as a major social change. Students examine aging through topics such as family, care, retirement, inequality, death, and global aging (core course of the BS in Health, Aging & Society).

SOC 3213: Medical Sociology

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on health, illness, and medicine. Students examine the illness experience, medical institutions, medical authority, health-related industries, genetics and society, and health social movements.

SOC 4683: Health Disparities

This course examines how social factors shape health and health care inequalities in the United States. Students explore how race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, neighborhoods, and communities contribute to unequal health outcomes.

Graduate Courses

DEM 5273/7273: Statistical Methods for Demographic Data I

This course introduces graduate students to statistical analysis and data management using demographic data. Students learn descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, regression models, and data visualization in R (core course of the PhD in Applied Demography).

SOC 6903: Sexual Orientation and Health

This graduate seminar examines health and health care among sexual minority populations across social, cultural, historical, and geographic contexts. Students engage with research on health disparities, social relationships, family, health care access, aging, and well-being.

DEM 5033/7033: Mortality

This graduate seminar examines mortality from a social demography perspective, with a focus on inequality in survival. Students study how mortality varies by race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and more (core course of the PhD in Applied Demography).