Job Description

Lecturer AY - Dance Studies Lecturer

Program: Dance Studies
Rank: Lecturer Faculty
Title: Part-Time Dance Studies Lecturer

About the Position:

This is a part-time faculty pool for available assignments during the academic year. Applications are considered throughout the year and reviewed based on Dance Studies Program need. Here is a current list of courses taught within the Dance Studies program. People with expertise and ability within and beyond the current course offerings are encouraged to apply. Your application status will be updated throughout the review process. If your application is still in progress, your application has not been reviewed by the hiring department. Should a review of your application result in the intent to pursue your candidacy, you will be contacted by phone for an interview.

For AY 24-25, we are specifically looking for someone for

• Understanding Dance and Music for Elementary Educators
• Dance Making
• Modern/Contemporary Dance
• Teaching Dance

Minimum Degree Requirements:

M.A., M.F.A., PhD., professional, or cultural proficiency. Degree requirements can vary depending on courses taught.

Required Qualifications:

• 1+ years teaching dance practice, dance performance, dance making, critical dance studies, and/or dance theory. All cultures, genres, styles, and actualizations of dance/movement practices are welcome and encouraged to apply.
• Current knowledge of and demonstrated proficiency and experience in dance studies and/or various dance practices.
• Demonstrated experience in dance performance, dance making, dance education, and/or an interdisciplinary practice with dance.
• Innovative approaches to dance pedagogy and practice reflecting the rapidly expanding and evolving field of dance studies.
• Highly effective interpersonal skills
• Applicants must speak in their submitted materials to the following student learning outcomes:
  • Develop an embodied practice for lifelong engagement with dance as a function of education, community, cultural knowledge, social justice, equity, history, ritual, and performance.
  • Analyze dance as a continually evolving form acknowledging the origins, contributions, and confluences of world diasporas, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and how race and racism, class, gender, sexuality, religion, spirituality, national origin, immigration status, ability, tribal citizenship, sovereignty, language, age, economics, and/or technology have shaped the way people move.
• Applicants with decolonial approaches to dance pedagogy and dance making will be given preference.
• Applicants should demonstrate the commitment to effectively work with and engage a diverse student population and evidence of how they would successfully mentor minoritized students with special focus on Latinx, Black/African American, American Indian, and Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander students.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two + years teaching dance in higher education
• Recognized extensive participation in their respective dance practice, creative activities, and/or scholarship
• Highly effective oral, written, digital communication skills, including the ability to convey conceptual and complex ideas and information.
• Demonstrated culturally-relevant, responsive and sustaining pedagogy in their syllabi, curriculum, and interactions with students, faculty, staff, and/or community members who span a diverse range of languages, nationalities, ethnicities, socio-economic levels, ages, identities, abilities and/or educational experiences.
• Those with expertise outside the current course offerings such as Folklorico, West African, Martial Arts, Bharat Natyam, Flamenco, Butoh, social/vernacular dances of the Americas, please apply. We need instructors for the DANCE 359 Themes in Dance Studies course.

Responsibilities:

• Teach one or more face-to-face, synchronous online, or asynchronous online Dance Studies Courses https://performingarts.csuci.edu/programs/dance-studies.htm
• Use subject-matter expertise to impart knowledge and critical thinking skills to students
• Stay current regarding the professional body of knowledge in field of practice
• Design syllabus and curriculum as assigned
• Communicate expectations to students
• Prepare and deliver course materials
• Evaluate student learning and growth and assign grades
• Design interactive and motivational activities to fully engage participants and to reinforce student learning
• Update course materials periodically, and regularly monitor course evaluations in order to make adjustments and improvements to the curriculum
• Respond to student needs and questions
• Create an environment in which students of diverse backgrounds are supported to succeed
• Apply technology and leverage resources appropriately to enhance the curriculum (e.g. use Canvas or make arrangements for guest speakers)
• Handle mechanics of position according to deadlines. Understand how to use the computer, texts, A/V, grade submission, etc.

Application Deadline:

Screening of applications will begin July 8, 2024. Priority will be given to applicants who submit applications prior to the screening deadline; however, the position will remain open until filled.

Applicants must submit the following materials:

• Curriculum Vitae/Resume
• Cover Letter
• A statement describing your experience mentoring and/or working with minoritized students with a special focus on Latinx, Black/African American, Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander and American Indian students, and
• A teaching philosophy describing how you plan to engage and interact with students, with a special focus on Latinx, Black/African American, Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander, and American Indian students.
  • Please consider how you actualize the following Programmatic Dance Studies SLOs in your Teaching Philosophy:
    • Develop an embodied practice for lifelong engagement with dance as a function of education, community, cultural knowledge, social justice, equity, history, ritual, and performance.
    • Analyze dance as a continually evolving form acknowledging the origins, contributions, and confluences of world diasporas, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and how race and racism, class, gender, sexuality, religion, spirituality, national origin, immigration status, ability, tribal citizenship, sovereignty, language, age, economics, and/or technology have shaped the way people move.
• Links to a personal online portfolio or links of creative work.

In later phases of the search process, applicants may be requested to provide verification of terminal degrees, licenses and certificates.

Submit all required materials to the CSUCI Careers application web address below:
http://jobs.csuci.edu

Compensation:

California State University Lecturer Salary (Academic Year) Schedules can be found at

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Placement into a range is based on qualifications and experience. Initial assignments are typically at the bottom third of the salary range. The full-time (15 units per semester) monthly base salaries indicated in the schedules above are prorated to the number of units worked and are paid in six monthly payments for each full semester.

The University offers excellent fringe benefits.