Teaching

M.A., M.Sc. Pineda taught a broad spectrum of socratic dialogues at Francisco Marroquín University while working as Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism^[2]. These included areas such as: Objectivist Philosophy, History of Liberty, Free Market Economics, Sociology, and Politics. His career includes over ten years of experience in teaching and student advising at institutions in Latin America.

 TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Course: “Atlas Shrugged and Objectivist Philosophy”. Center for the Study of Capitalism.  UFM, GUATEMALA. September, 2009-August, 2011
  • Taught more than 100 classes to 105 high school students in Guatemala City.
• Course: “The Fountainhead and Objectivist Philosophy”. Center for the Study of Capitalism.  UFM, GUATEMALA. September, 2009-August, 2011
  • Taught 256 classes to 426 high school students in Guatemala City.
• Course: “Philosophy Book Club”. Center for the Study of Capitalism.  UFM, GUATEMALA. September, 2009-August, 2011
  • Taught 75 classes to 732 college and high school students in Guatemala City on the books Not a Zero Sum Game by Manuel Ayau, Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, Common Sense Economics by Charles Murray, Human Action by Ludwig von Mises, The Law by Frederic Bastiat, and a dozen of Classical Fiction Books.
• Course: “Research Strategies for EBSCO, Xrefer, Ovid, Oxford Reference Online and Project Muse”. Ludwig von Mises Library, GUATEMALA. March 2005, February 2007.
  • Taught  86 sessions on how to do advanced research on online databases for college students.
• Course: “Historical and Political Geography”. Teacher Assistant of Prof. Glenn Cox. Universidad Francisco Marroquin, GUATEMALA. January, 2004 – June, 2004.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Pineda Rodas, Luis Guillermo.  (2012, July 01) “History of Capitalism II”.  Paper presented at the Atlas Society Summit, Washington, DC.
• Pineda Rodas, Luis Guillermo.  (2012, June 30) “History of Capitalism I”.  Paper presented at the Atlas Society Summit, Washington, DC.
• Pineda Rodas, Luis Guillermo. (2012, June 26) “A New History of Capitalism.” Paper presented at the Scholarship and a Free Society Conference, Towson, MD.