The Department of Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies at the University of California, Merced invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor, security of employment track, which is analogous to tenure, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. We seek applicants with teaching interests in a wide variety of areas, especially those who can teach multiple required undergraduate courses that might include Introduction to Communication, Research Methods, Small Group Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Media Campaigns, Writing for Media, Professional and Technical Writing, Media Production, and a capstone course for majors. The ideal candidate will blend media theory and practice in one or more mass media contexts, for example strategic communication, journalism, technical and professional writing (such as writing for social media and for media campaigns), or transmedia. Candidates should value collaboration and interdisciplinarity.
Open date: November 1, 2024
Initial review date: Monday, Dec 2, 2024
Apply link: https://aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01834
Candidates with teaching experience in any substantive areas are encouraged to apply, but we seek applicants that can offer a breadth of courses and demonstrate past teaching effectiveness. The successful candidate will be expected to primarily teach at the undergraduate level and mentor students and graduate instructors. The successful candidate must be committed to equity and inclusion, be an excellent teacher, and be able to work with students, faculty, staff and community partners from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds. We are particularly interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through their teaching, professional activity, and service. The Assistant Teaching Professor title in the University of California System confers the rights and responsibilities of membership in the Academic Senate and is eligible for Security of Employment (tenure analogous). The typical workload for 9-month academic year appointees in the Teaching Faculty series is 20% research, 60% teaching, and 20% service. Appointees in the Teaching Professors series typically teach 5 courses per academic year.
The Department of Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies specializes in wide-ranging interdisciplinary research on human expressive culture. We emphasize synergies between writing, media, and arts in their historical, sociocultural, and political contexts. This department focuses especially on how written, aural, and visual technologies and products shape communications, and how creativity and knowledge are produced and managed. We embody the value of the arts in human social life in historical and contemporary contexts. The next stage in our growth includes the development and implementation of an undergraduate program in Communication and Media to meet the needs of California’s undergraduate population. Our current search is therefore broad, and we seek a colleague with demonstrated excellence in teaching undergraduate students, as well as research in any substantive area of Communication. This Assistant Teaching Professor position will collaborate with two additional faculty of Communication and Media hired in AY 24-25 to build this new program.
This is a unique opportunity to join the faculty at the newest University of California campus, where we are building a world class faculty and have the opportunity to work with a wonderfully diverse and engaged undergraduate and graduate student population.
Apply link: https://aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01834
