Unranked Renewable Term Lecturer in the Honors College

Unranked Renewable Term Lecturer in the Honors College

Position Title: Unranked Renewable Term Lecturer in the Honors College

Location: Honors College, David Boren Hall, Norman

Department: Honors College

Position Type: Faculty

Qualifications:

Terminal degree in a discipline represented at OU, with preference given to PhDs in the social sciences or a terminal degree in interdisciplinary studies drawing on social science methodologies.

Experience teaching in-person or face-to-face courses at the collegiate level. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of teaching effectiveness.

Application Instructions:

Application materials for Interfolio:

• Short cover letter outlining relevant experience and interest in position. The cover letter may address examples of the candidate's approach to teaching (250-350 words)
• Academic CV with relevant teaching and research experience
• List of professional references

Expected salary: $45,000-55,000

The search committee will begin reviewing applications as soon as possible and will continue until the position(s) is filled.

For further information or questions, please contact Kalenda Eaton, Associate Dean, Honors College, k.eaton1@ou.edu

Description:

The Honors College at the University of Oklahoma (OU) is seeking to hire two unranked renewable term Lecturers (RT) to teach a new Foundation course that all Honors College students will take in their first year. The Honors College serves undergraduate students across all degree-granting colleges at the university, providing them with the opportunities and resources to develop both inside and outside the classroom as innovative thinkers, critical consumers of knowledge, and engaged citizens.

Each year, this interdisciplinary Foundation course will introduce students to the intellectual community of the Honors College. The class provides students with General Education credit for (either first-year experience or social sciences) and features regular plenaries (lectures) once a week (approximately 250 students) with small discussion sections twice a week (approximately 20 students per section). Through integration into the Honors College, the course provides students with an historical understanding of higher education as an institution for creating and communicating new knowledge, and introduces students to the "big questions" within academic disciplines. Students will engage with a variety of common readings from different perspectives and work together to determine how these various perspectives can be integrated to develop a research question or potential application related to a central topic.

The successful candidate will teach four (4) sections of the Foundation (s) course each semester (12 credit hours) and in the beginning, will be an active participant in refining the new course with other Honors College faculty and administrators. While we are interested in strong candidates with solid teaching experience across a range of topics, we will prioritize those with expertise in and training in the social science methodologies and with experience in interdisciplinary teaching, writing instruction, and professional and/or academic presentations. Above all, though, we are looking for experienced and engaging instructors willing to exploring multi-disciplinary and other perspectives with high-achieving first-year students.

This is an academic nine-month appointment. There will be a one-time summer stipend beginning July 1, 2026, for additional work on preparing the new course. The successful candidate will need to be in Norman before the summer start date.

Apply Now