Peter Ekman has offered eight courses of his own design:
Between 2010 and 2016, he led seminar-style discussion sections as a Graduate Student Instructor (i.e., teaching assistant) for numerous undergraduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley, including:
In 2015, he was named the Department of Geography's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, a distinction granted to nine percent of teaching assistants university-wide on the basis of student evaluation and faculty nomination. Students rated his surveys of landscape history and his urban field study "among the best" courses they had taken at Berkeley. Detailed syllabi for any of his original courses are available upon request.
- American Cities and Social Change, Fall 2020, Community Studies Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Walkers in the City: Landscape, Mobility, and Everday Life, Summer 2020, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
- American Landscapes: History, Geography, and the Built Environment since 1500, Spring 2019 and Spring 2020, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
- Regions, Peoples, States: On Geographic Inquiry, Fall 2018, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
- Field Study of Buildings and Cities: A New Exploration of the Bay Region, Summer 2016, Summer 2018, and Summer 2019, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
- Landscape and Life: A Historical Geography of the American Built Environment since 1850, Spring 2016, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
- Urban Worlds: Knowing the Global City, Fall 2017, Department of Geography, Environment, and Planning, Sonoma State University
- Space and Society: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Geography, Fall 2017 and Spring 2018, Department of Geography, Environment, and Planning, Sonoma State University
Between 2010 and 2016, he led seminar-style discussion sections as a Graduate Student Instructor (i.e., teaching assistant) for numerous undergraduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley, including:
- Geography 10, Regions, Peoples, and States (Profs. Jake Kosek and Nathan Sayre)
- Geography 37, The Political Geographies of Science and Technology (Prof. Jake Kosek)
- Geography 160A and 160B, American Cultural Landscapes, 1600 to 1900 and ...1900 to Present (Prof. Paul Groth; cross-listed with American Studies and Environmental Design)
In 2015, he was named the Department of Geography's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, a distinction granted to nine percent of teaching assistants university-wide on the basis of student evaluation and faculty nomination. Students rated his surveys of landscape history and his urban field study "among the best" courses they had taken at Berkeley. Detailed syllabi for any of his original courses are available upon request.