Edward Gibson's Teaching

I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Comparative Politics, Democratization, Latin American Politics, Federalism, and U.S.-Latin American relations. In 2003 I was made the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, a three-year endowed chair that is the highest university-wide teaching award at Northwestern. Prior to that I had won several teaching awards, including the College of Arts and Sciences "E. Leroy Hall Teaching Excellence Award," as well as the Department of Political Science's "Barry Farrell Teaching Award." My teaching has also been supported by external funders, most notably the National Science Foundation, whose 1998 CAREER Award provided financial support to integrate undergraduate and graduate teaching with research activities.

Below are links to syllabi for some of my recent courses:

Undergraduate Courses:

Freshman Seminar: Problems of Democracy (2005)

Latin American Politics (lecture; enrollment in 2006, 155 students)

The United States and Latin America (lecture; enrollment in 2000, 120 students)

Introduction to Comparative Politics (lecture; enrollment in 1997, 120 students)

Problems of Democracy and Democratization (lecture, 2008; 120 students)

Graduate Courses:

Democratization (enrollment 2006, 16 students)

Territorial Politics (enrollment 2006, 12 students)

Problems of Federalism (enrollment 2007, 11 students)