teaching philosophy
My anti-racist teaching pedagogies and service philosophy are rooted in critical consciousness and transformational resistance. This concept emphasizes awareness of inequities and the social structures that create them must happen alongside advancing social justice to effectively transform these conditions. My ongoing goals as an instructor and mentor are to (1) create an empowering and empathic learning environment that seeks to promotes students’ critical engagement on course topics; (2) encourage students to reflect on their roles and positionalities in the world to realize the agency they have in creating social change; and (3) equip students with background knowledge of issues, as well as community-driven methods necessary to addressing issues like mass displacement, health inequities, environmental injustices, and other social inequities.
courses taught
Introduction to ethnic studies (saddleback community college)
Examines race and ethnicity in the United States from the perspectives and experiences of African American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Native American, and Chicanx/Latinx communities in the United States. Students will interrogate and examine critical theories and issues in the field of ethnic studies such as patterns of imperialism, settler colonialism, genocide and ethnocide, slavery, racial formation and racialization, Eurocentrism, (im)migration, environmental justice, cultural expression, intersectionality, decolonization, civil rights, and anti-racist struggles.
environmental racism (uc san diego)
Critically examines the discourse and practices on environmental racism by adopting an intersectional and geographically unbounded approach. The course reconceptualizes and expands the definition of "environment" to examine various environmental issues and their relationships to power and politics, health and wellbeing, militarism, and capitalism. We will look at how environmental injustices manifest across various contexts and spaces by examining sociopolitical movements, cultural productions, multimedia presentations, and scholarly work that challenge and resist systems of oppression that create the conditions of environmental injustices. While this course will provide context for environmental disenfranchisement, it privileges an imaginative and future-oriented possibilities to resisting and transforming the ramifications of environmental racism.
Power, Politics, and asian america (San diego state university)
Introduces students to the political processes and governmental institutions in the United States and California from the perspective of Asian Americans. This course critically examines how public policies created by governmental and political institutions at the federal, state, and local levels shape the political participation and experiences of Asian Americans in the United States and California. The course also teaches students how Asian Americans have sought to fit into these political institutions and politics by resisting oppression, disenfranchisement, and political exclusion. We begin with an overview of the logics behind the American political system in Unit I. In Unit II, we examine specific laws and policies that racialize Asian Americans to determine citizenship and migration status in conjunction to the U.S. role in globalization. Unit III discuss U.S. imperialism and militarism in the global arena as racialized policies continue to impact Asians/Asian Americans. Finally, Unit IV examines the politics of Asian American representation and activism. The unit explores the ongoing ways in which Asian Americans engage with public policies and perceptions. The materials that students will engage with in this course privilege imaginative and future-oriented possibilities to transforming the ramification of U.S. political institutions and public policies by tracing how these tenets of American Institutions permeates into and against Asian American lives and how Asian Americans have reshaped American Institutions.
Introduction to ethnic studies: land and labor (UC SAN DIEGO)
Examines key historical events and debates in the field that center around land and labor, including disputes about territory and natural resources, slavery and other forms of unfree labor, labor migration and recruitment, and U.S. and transnational borders.
introduction to ethnic studies: circulation of difference (UC SAN DIEGO)
Focusing on historical and contemporary migration and the circulation of commodities, knowledge, bodies, and culture, this course looks at how racial formation in the U.S. and transnationally is shaped and contested by such movements.
INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES: MAKING CULTURE (UC SAN DIEGO)
Through examining the historical and contemporary politics of representation in both popular and community-focused media, film, art, music, and literature, this course tracks racial formation through studying the sphere of cultural production, consumption, and contestation.
PEACE, GLOBAL SECURITY, AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION (AMERICAN UNIVERSITY)
Explores the causes and consequences of war as they relate to competing understandings of peace and security. Courses in this area help students assess the choices as well as challenges involved in preventing, resolving, and managing conflict. Students engage theories and historical cases from international security, strategic studies, human security, peace studies, and conflict resolution to conceptualize war and insecurity. The gateway course begins this journey by establishing the broader philosophical traditions associated with competing schools of thought. Students examine the different definitions of peace, security, and conflict as well as general patterns of violence and insecurity in the world. The course builds on this foundation by introducing students to the dynamics of political violence and different peacebuilding and conflict resolution mechanisms.
Student Feedback
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“Professor Noeuv had a great breadth and depth of knowledge on all of the subjects taught in the class and did a great job of linking together ideas and events to create a better understanding of the course overall! She was also a great presenter and really engaged the class with the material. One thing she did especially well was organizing the course in a way that despite the large span of readings and other materials we used in the class it was not overwhelming by pointing out what specifics were important and key concepts throughout.”
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“Professor Noeuv created a very inclusive learning environment where people from all backgrounds felt comfortable to share their viewpoints in class–discussions.”
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“She always was available via email and hosted office hours for as long as I would need. She significantly improved my writing skills and improved my ability to write about the content matter of the class. I am very grateful to have had her as a teaching assistant because she taught me skills that I can make use of in future writing classes.”