Part-time Instructor of First-Year Writing
Full Time
Newark, NJ 07102
Posted
Job description
Title:
Part-time Instructor of First-Year Writing
Department:
Humanities & Social Sciences
Reports To:
The Department Chair
Position Type:
Faculty
Position Summary:
The First-Year Writing Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology is currently recruiting part-time instructors to teach one or both of its foundational writing courses beginning in the fall 2023 semester. The initial course is designed to transition students from high school to college reading and writing with a focus on the writing process, genre study, and information literacy. The second course in the two-term sequence builds on the reading, writing, and rhetorical skills practiced during the first semester, offering a road to success in college writing. This subsequent course constructs a multidisciplinary approach to information literacy and research work and writing.
Essential Functions:
Essential functions include submitting syllabi at the start of semester, delivering lectures and/or facilitating activities designed to engage students at all class meetings, assigning written course work and grading in a timely manner, providing ongoing feedback and final grading of students’ written work. Experience in teaching genre-based prose writing, reading skills, and critical thinking is required, and all teaching assignments entail face-to-face instruction.
Additional Functions:
Availability outside of classroom hours is necessary for student conferences.
Prerequisite Qualifications:
Bargaining Unit:
AFT-UCAN
FLSA:
Non-Exempt
Part-Time
Part-time Instructor of First-Year Writing
Department:
Humanities & Social Sciences
Reports To:
The Department Chair
Position Type:
Faculty
Position Summary:
The First-Year Writing Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology is currently recruiting part-time instructors to teach one or both of its foundational writing courses beginning in the fall 2023 semester. The initial course is designed to transition students from high school to college reading and writing with a focus on the writing process, genre study, and information literacy. The second course in the two-term sequence builds on the reading, writing, and rhetorical skills practiced during the first semester, offering a road to success in college writing. This subsequent course constructs a multidisciplinary approach to information literacy and research work and writing.
Essential Functions:
Essential functions include submitting syllabi at the start of semester, delivering lectures and/or facilitating activities designed to engage students at all class meetings, assigning written course work and grading in a timely manner, providing ongoing feedback and final grading of students’ written work. Experience in teaching genre-based prose writing, reading skills, and critical thinking is required, and all teaching assignments entail face-to-face instruction.
Additional Functions:
Availability outside of classroom hours is necessary for student conferences.
Prerequisite Qualifications:
- Applicants should have an M.A. in English, MFA, or graduate degree in a related field and are expected to follow course requirements and adhere to academic integrity policies.
- At the university's discretion, the education and experience prerequisites may be exempted where the candidate can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the university, an equivalent combination of education and experience specifically preparing the candidate for success in the position.
Bargaining Unit:
AFT-UCAN
FLSA:
Non-Exempt
Part-Time
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