Position Overview

Understanding Television instructors will lead one or more sections of THEATRE 2700 Understanding Television. Understanding Television is a general education course that introduces students to television criticism as a form of writing and media literacy. Student will use critical analysis to view how race, ethnicity and gender diversity are represented through television programming. Students will learn about television as a medium, develop skills on reading and distilling criticism and/or critical analysis about TV by moving through scaffolded writing assignments that build upon one another.

This course may be offered in three distinct formats:

• Online and asynchronous format.
• Online format with two synchronous online meetings per week.
• In Person format with two 80-minute class meetings per week.

Specific meeting times and formats vary by assignment and are dependent on demand and availability.

Performance Objectives

• Communicate and collaborate with faculty supervisor(s) to carry out course activities and objectives as outlined in an approved syllabus.
• Assist with collection of course data required for regular assessment of the Theatre and General Education programs as needed.
• Lead all course meetings and support students’ achievement of the following learning objectives:
• Engage in informed television criticism built upon the understanding, explanation, and analysis of a program’s unique racial, ethnic, and gendered attributes and their contexts.
• Critically analyze a variety of television texts, exploring the visual and rhetorical strategies that create racial, ethnic and gendered narratives and their theoretical assumptions.
• Apply television criticism methodology to persuasively communicate, orally and in writing, your analysis of racial, ethnic and gendered topics in American culture.
• Locate, evaluate, and use written and visual sources (both print and on-line) for your television criticism research, writing, and oral dialogue.
• Explore and problematize a diversity of perspectives on television in American life, placing your personal experiences with television within a broader social and scholarly context.

Education and Experience Requirements

Required: Advanced Degree (MA or PhD) in Film Studies, English, Theatre or other comparable field/graduate degree. Teaching experience, including experience teaching introductory writing and information literacy.

How to Apply

To be considered, please submit your application electronically via Workday. Application materials must include:

Required:

• Curriculum Vita (CV)