Laurie teaches the following courses online for various Rutgers University programs and continues to develop new courses as requested.
- African Influences on American Music
- American Contemporary Composers
- American Music in the 1960s
- Intro to Music Theory
- Rock and Roll
- Latin American Music
- American Popular Song 1920 – 1980
- World Music
- American Hip Hop
- Gender in Music
- Music of the 27s Club
- Instrumentation in Music
- Mind-Altering Music
- American Rhythm and blues
- The Legendary King of Pop – Michael Jackson
- Robert Johnson and the blues