Teaching Interests
I am interested in teaching both undergraduate and graduate classes in comparative politics and quantitative methods. More specifically, I enjoy teaching introductory courses in comparative politics, and also look forward to designing upper-level classes on distributive politics and development, clientelism and corruption, comparative political institutions, and politics in South Asia. In terms of quantitative methods, I have already taught both introductory and advanced materials to undergraduate students, and look forward to more opportunities to doing so.
Teaching Experience
At LUMS, I taught Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods in Fall 2019, which was an introductory course for third and fourth political science students that focused on both the theoretical and applied side of quantitative analysis for the social sciences. Throughout the course, students also learned how to use R to conduct their own analysis. The syllabus for the course can be found here. In Spring 2020, I taught Econometrics in the Economics department, which is the second course in the LUMS statistics/econometrics sequence and is a core course for Economics undergraduate students. The course began with deriving the OLS estimates, and covered the theory of linear regressions and their shortcomings in great detail. Throughout the semester, students also had a lab component of the course in which they used R to apply all the theoretical concepts they had learned. More details on what this course covered can be found here.
Before that, while I was a graduate student at the University of Rochester, I designed and taught an undergraduate class titled Politics in Developing Countries in the summer of 2015, which introduced students to a variety of topics in comparative politics that are particularly relevant to the developing world today, including clientelism, electoral fraud, public goods provision, and corruption. The course focused both on theoretical and empirical work on these issues, and reading material was drawn from research on a wide range of countries in South Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Syllabus for Politics in Developing Countries here.
I am interested in teaching both undergraduate and graduate classes in comparative politics and quantitative methods. More specifically, I enjoy teaching introductory courses in comparative politics, and also look forward to designing upper-level classes on distributive politics and development, clientelism and corruption, comparative political institutions, and politics in South Asia. In terms of quantitative methods, I have already taught both introductory and advanced materials to undergraduate students, and look forward to more opportunities to doing so.
Teaching Experience
At LUMS, I taught Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods in Fall 2019, which was an introductory course for third and fourth political science students that focused on both the theoretical and applied side of quantitative analysis for the social sciences. Throughout the course, students also learned how to use R to conduct their own analysis. The syllabus for the course can be found here. In Spring 2020, I taught Econometrics in the Economics department, which is the second course in the LUMS statistics/econometrics sequence and is a core course for Economics undergraduate students. The course began with deriving the OLS estimates, and covered the theory of linear regressions and their shortcomings in great detail. Throughout the semester, students also had a lab component of the course in which they used R to apply all the theoretical concepts they had learned. More details on what this course covered can be found here.
Before that, while I was a graduate student at the University of Rochester, I designed and taught an undergraduate class titled Politics in Developing Countries in the summer of 2015, which introduced students to a variety of topics in comparative politics that are particularly relevant to the developing world today, including clientelism, electoral fraud, public goods provision, and corruption. The course focused both on theoretical and empirical work on these issues, and reading material was drawn from research on a wide range of countries in South Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Syllabus for Politics in Developing Countries here.
