Erica Tom
Course Development & Teaching
ORIGINAL COURSES
As Director of Native American Studies, Erica regularly supervises independent study for students minoring in Native American Studies, and working with local tribes.
Trauma and Healing in the Anthropocene: Race, Species, and Environment (NAMS 240 - AMCS 240)
Sonoma State University, Spring 2021
Native American Studies
American Multicultural Studies
Multicultural Conversations: Embodied Listening and Speaking (AMCS 125)
Sonoma State University, Fall 2018-Spring 2021
American Multicultural Studies
Street Stories: Gender, Race, and Place (AMCS 165)
Sonoma State University, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
American Multicultural Studies
Art in the Anthropocene: Trauma, Healing, Humans & Other Animals (LIBS 320)
Sonoma State University, Fall 2018
Hutchins School of Liberal Studies
What is Publicly Engaged Scholarship?
Rutgers University - Newark
Center for Law, Inequality & Metropolitan Equity
Lecture Series & Writing Workshop, 2015-2016
Humans and Other Animals in Literature, Life, and Film
Rutgers University - Newark
Upper Level English, Spring 2014
OTHER COURSES TAUGHT
How Racism Works: American in Black and White
Sonoma State University, Fall 2017-Fall 2019
American Multicultural Studies Department
In Search of Self (Libs 102)
Sonoma State University, Spring 2020
Hutchins Liberal Studies
The Human Enigma (Libs 101)
Sonoma State University, Fall 2019
Hutchins Liberal Studies
Exploring the Unknown (Libs 201)
Sonoma State University, Spring 2019
Hutchins Liberal Studies
English 100A-100B
Sonoma State University,
"Remedial" English, Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
Taught original syllabus for English 1A-1B, a two semester "remedial" reading and writing course for EOP (Equal Opportunity Program) students. While introductory, the course involved critical theory ranging from Derrida to Butler, Fanon to Anzaldúa. Students learned to read a variety of text, including newspapers, novels, and music videos.