Lecturer (9M)

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Job Title: Lecturer (9M)

Department: Arts and Sciences | Theatre, Film, and Media Arts

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.

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Department Information The Department of Theatre, Film and Media Arts is a vibrant, active department dedicated to the education and training of filmmakers, theatre artists, scholars, and teachers in an atmosphere conducive to creative scholarship, production and performance. The department conducts research and creative projects which contribute to the enrichment of the university and to the fields of theatre, film and media arts at large.

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Location: Remote Location

Position Type: Regular

Scheduled Hours: 20

Shift: Varying Shifts

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