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 over 70 classes, including over 55 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 in 2002.
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