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First-Year Writing Teaching Faculty
Plymouth State University’s English Department invites applications for the position of Non-Tenure Track Teaching Faculty first-year writing instructor beginning Fall 2018.
Plymouth State University (PSU) is a public university located in the foothills of the White Mountains in the state of New Hampshire, offering a rich, teaching/student-focused learning environment for approximately 4,200 undergraduate students and 2,600 graduate students, while encouraging scholarship, research, and service-oriented projects.
Integrated Clusters at PSU
We are transforming our campus to create a first-of-its-kind university organized around integrated clusters. Our goal is to provide an interdisciplinary and innovative learning environment. Students, faculty, and community will connect to solve real-world challenges that will benefit people and organizations at all levels.
Our students will work in teams with faculty and partners within seven integrated clusters:
1. Exploration and Discovery
2. Innovation and Entrepreneurship
3. Arts and Technologies
4. Health and Human Enrichment
5. Justice and Security
6. Education, Democracy and Social Change
7. Tourism, Environment and Sustainable Development
Our integrated cluster learning model creates an educational experience that will be second to none and strengthens our legacy of interdisciplinary study and experiential learning. Now is an exciting time to join Plymouth State and help shape our new kind of university and ultimately tomorrow’s leaders. Composition teachers work in ALL seven clusters
Responsibilities: We seek an experienced teacher and mentor to provide writing instruction for first-year writers at Plymouth State University. The teaching load is 4/4. Successful candidates will also serve in collective faculty work such as curriculum development, institutional policy, and governance as determined by evolving departmental and University needs. Contract duration is a renewable 3 year term. Candidate faculty should have a firm concept of how their potential writing Composition course will have a topic, theme, partner, community, or discipline connection to cluster education.
Acceptable Minimal Qualifications:
MA or higher degree in English, Composition/Rhetoric, English Education, Linguistics, or a closely related field in hand by August 2018 with dedicated graduate coursework in undergraduate writing pedagogy, composition theory, research writing, or rhetorical theory.
Minimum of 3 years’ experience teaching first-year writing, preferably at a public university
Evidence of excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Thorough understanding of rhetoric, professional genres of writing, and writing conventions as applied in a typical first-year writing program
Evidence of a commitment to students, general education, university life, and community
Additional Desirable Qualifications:
Demonstrated research or experience in any or all of the following areas is preferred: writing across or in disciplines, developmental writing, teaching with technology, digital literacies, multimodal textual production, open labs, and experience working with diverse populations.
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