List of Instructional Appointments – Daniel Santiago Sáenz

At Columbia University (New York, USA)

Year-long class; 110-minute classes meet twice a week.
Taught a selection of literary works ranging from Mediterranean and Middle Eastern antiquity to the contemporary moment to students from the School of General Studies and Columbia College. Sample readings include Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Gilgamesh, the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, Vergil’s Aeneid, Sappho’s fragments, Augustine’s Confessions, the Lais of Marie de France, Ibn ‘Arabi’s The Translator of Desires, Dante’s Inferno, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Machado de Assis’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name, Miller’s Song of Achilles, and Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric.
Prepared daily lesson plans, designed assignments and rubrics, classroom assessment techniques, and midterm exams, and provided formative and summative feedback throughout the semesters; planned cultural and social enrichment activities for students across NYC.
Implemented a shared syllabus (common across all 70 sections) with my own interventions and timing.

75-minute classes meet twice a week.
An undergraduate survey course taught in Spanish serving the Hispanic Studies programs, the Global Core requirement, and elective courses.
Created the syllabus and adapted the content from semester to semester to reflect student feedback, designed all assessments, prepared lectures and lesson plans, and planned museum trips to enhance student engagement with the materials; adapted the course from remote to in-person instruction; in Spring 2022, I incorporated a textbook in Spanish in response to student desire for more tangible historical context.

90-minute classes meet twice a week for 8 weeks.
An introduction to ways of reading, researching, and writing in the Humanities for participants in the GSAS OADI–Leadership Alliance Summer Research Program at Columbia University designed to encourage students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to hone in on skills necessary to succeed in graduate programs.
Designed syllabus, prepared the assessments to support the students’ development of an independent research project, mentored the students on all aspects of academic and professional development, and provided formative assessments on a weekly basis.

75-minute classes meet twice a week.
An undergraduate language course designed to promote intensive exposure to advanced Spanish through engagement with academic and cultural content based on my area of expertise.
Title: “Perspectives of Art in the Iberian Americas.”
Developed a syllabus that highlighted content-driven language learning, designed assessments, and prepared course materials fitting to remote learning due to the continued presence of Covid-19.

Regular session: 75-minute classes meet three times a week.
Intensive Summer session: 125-minute classes meet four times a week for six weeks.
Prepared grammar lessons, integrative activities, and authentic materials for a number of Spanish language subjects, including the imperfect, the preterite, the conditional, and relevant vocabulary.
Implemented a shared syllabus with my own interventions into the Online Lab, assessments, and projects. For Fall 2019, I prepared students to successfully complete a shared final exam across all sections.

75-minute classes meet three times a week.
Prepared grammar lessons, integrative activities, and authentic materials for a number of Spanish language subjects, including the subjunctive mode, the imperative, the past perfect tense, and relevant vocabulary.
Implemented a shared syllabus with my own interventions into the Online Lab, assessments, and projects, and adapted the course to remote learning due to the onset of Covid-19.

Intensive Summer session: 165-minute classes meet twice a week for six weeks.
Topic: “Image-Making and Empire-Building.”
Built syllabus on 15th and 17th century global art and architecture (Ancient Americas, Islamic World, East Asia, Europe, West and East Africa, India, East Asia, and the transatlantic world), designed assessments and rubrics, supervised and mentored a graduate teaching assistant, prepared lectures with a flipped classroom model, coordinated two guest lectures, and organized a visit to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for a large group of students (40+).

Intensive Summer session: 165-minute classes meet twice a week for six weeks.
Topic: “Colonial Latin American Art.”
Designed a syllabus on colonial Latin American art to complement departmental offerings, prepared prerecorded lectures for asynchronous component using Panopto, held synchronous discussion sessions with the students, developed scaffolded assignments that did not require access to the library, supervised and mentored a doctoral teaching assistant (2021), coordinated four guest lectures.