Lecturer in the Humanities Honors Program

San José State University, San José, California 95192-0092
ANNOUNCEMENT OF POSITION AVAILABILITY
Subject to budgetary approval

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES – HUMANITIES HONORS PROGRAM
POSITION: Lecturer in the Humanities Honors Program
RANK: Part-time, temporary (e.g. Lecturer A, Lecturer B)
SALARY: Commensurate with rank and experience. Salary information is available at: http://www.sjsu.edu/up/docs/instructional-faculty-salary-schedule-2018-19.pdf

QUALIFICATIONS: ABD OR Ph.D. in a humanities discipline, including English or world literatures, or a social science discipline, including cultural anthropology or world history, and competencies in related fields. Strong teaching skills and experience, and experience or interest in team-teaching required. Awareness of and sensitivity to educational goals serving a multicultural and diverse student population, which may have been gained through lived and embodied experience, cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and/or other comparable experience. Interest in and record of scholarly activity desirable.

RESPONSIBILITIES: Teach as part of a lower-division undergraduate General Education interdisciplinary team for the four-semester Humanities Honors Program sequence, HUM 1A/B: Honors-World Cultures and Societies (antiquity to ca. 1600), and 2A/B: Honors-Modern World Cultures (ca. 1600-present). In addition, you will hold regular office hours for students; be present at all lectures and seminar classes; work cooperatively with your faculty team, other department faculty, staff, and department chair, as well as participate in required course grading and assessment activities, etc.

Each semester course consists of a 3-unit lecture and a 3-unit seminar, which are graded as a 6-unit whole. Four-person teams collaboratively teach a syllabus each semester to cover a broad range of cultural and social issues in in a global context throughout the specified time period of each semester, with specific consideration given to changing cultural contexts, recurring themes across cultures and time, as well as various diverse interconnections. Intellectual approaches to course topics are inter- or transdisciplinary, drawing from a mixture of disciplines and scholarly perspectives relevant to the humanities and some social sciences.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Applicants should send a letter of application detailing qualifications to teach the Humanities Honors course sequence, and provide a current curriculum vitae containing contact information, as well as the names and contact information for three references who can speak to their teaching and/or scholarly skills. Applicants may be asked to provide evidence of teaching effectiveness or a sample of academic writing/research, as needed.

Please email inquiries and application documents to Jennifer Hoyman, Administrative Coordinator, Department of Humanities: jennifer.hoyman@sjsu.edu with the subject line “Humanities Honors Lecturer Position”. Alternatively, you may mail application to Jennifer Hoyman, Administrative Coordinator, Department of Humanities, San José State University, One Washington Square, CL 419, San José, CA 95192-0092. Determination of part- time teaching assignments is always contingent upon student enrollment and funding.

The position advertised will remain open until filled. Please submit materials for the Fall, 2019 semester by 15 July, 2019, or as soon as possible. Interviews will follow. A pool for future positions will be created with the applicants not hired as this time.

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