Humanities Lecturer Pool - Global Humanities

The Humanities Department at SJSU is a prominent center for creative, critical, interdisciplinary study and research. We offer three undergraduate degree programs: the Liberal Studies Teacher Preparation B.A.; the Creative Arts B.A.; and the Humanities B.A., in which students pursue a concentration in American Studies, Liberal Arts, or Comparative Religious Studies. The Department is also home to the Humanities Honors Program, which offers both lower and upper-division Humanities Honors GE course sequences.

San José State University is a teaching-centered institution that is a national leader in graduating historically underserved students. SJSU has achieved both HSI (Hispanic Serving Institution) and AANAPISI (Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution) status. Moreover, 40% of our student population are first-generation college students, and 38% are Pell-qualified. As a result, we are ranked #1 as the most transformational university in the country.

A General Note about Our Curriculum: In all of our programs, we seek to understand the profound questions about what it means to be human while contextualizing those questions in time, place, and culture, as well as within institutions of education. We explore questions about conflict, injustice, inequality, as well as questions of beauty, meaning, and creative expression. We push the boundaries of humanistic studies into environmental humanities and digital humanities. Liberal Studies Teacher Preparation majors base their training to become teachers of K-8 grade students upon a foundation in critical humanistic study. Learn more about our department at our website.

Brief Description of Global Humanities Lecturer Duties

Teach a range of courses in the Humanities, including our core skills courses (e.g., HUM100W and HUM190), global humanities course (e.g., HUM128), and possibly our Humanities Honors courses. Please see our department website or the SJSU Course Catalogue for a full suite of possible courses available. Depending on qualifications, there is also the possibility of teaching American Studies and Religious Studies courses.

• Demonstrate awareness of and address the needs of a student population of great diversity – including age, abilities, cultural background, ethnicity, religion, economic background, primary language, sexual orientation, gender identity, and academic preparation – through inclusive course materials, teaching strategies, and advisement.
  
  
• In addition, you will hold regular office hours for students, work cooperatively with other department faculty, staff, and the department chair, as well as participate in required course grading and assessment activities, etc.
• Faculty shall organize all their classes within the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS).
• All classes must be offered and meet as scheduled throughout the entire semester or term, in the mode assigned and listed in the schedule of classes (i.e., asynchronous, synchronous, bichronous, in-person, or hybrid).

Required Qualifications

• ABD (All but dissertation) or Ph.D. in a relevant interdisciplinary field such as Humanities, Women’s Studies, Ethnic Studies, American Studies, etc.; or in a relevant field of Humanities or Social Sciences, including but not limited to Literature, History.
• Demonstrated strong college level teaching skills and experience required.
• Applicants should demonstrate an awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching and other comparable experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in and record of scholarly activity desirable.
  

Compensation

Compensation and salary range placement are determined by qualifications and experience. To learn more about range placement, please see University Policy S21-2.

Anticipated starting salary:

L-A / Range 2 - $5507 - $5959
L-B / Range 3 - $6221 - $7481
L-C / Range 4 - $6825 - $9431
L-D / Range 5 - $8593 - $10347

Range salaries above are the anticipated monthly salary rate of full-time AY faculty--part-time rates are prorated. There are 6 monthly payments per semester (full-time AY annual salary = rate x 12). See the Faculty Salary Schedule for more information.

Application Procedure

Click Apply Now to complete the SJSU Online Employment Application and attach the following documents:

• CV
• Cover Letter
• List of at least three (3) or as many as five (5) references
• Statement of Teaching Philosophy (optional)
• Statement of Expertise, including professional experience, and list of courses you are qualified to teach