Assistant Professor of Communication and Transformative Conflict Resolution - California State University - Monterey Bay

Posted: October 25, 2012

Location: California

Employment Level: Tenured, tenure track

Website: http://hr.csumb.edu/jobs/db/fac/

Employment Status: Full-time

Salary: Not specified

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Division of Humanities and Communication (HCOM) at CSUMB seeks an Assistant Professor whose specialty is in Communication Ethics and Conflict Transformation and is prepared to teach undergraduate courses in its Practical and Professional Ethics, Peace Studies and Pre-Law concentrations; courses that serve major learning outcomes in communications and ethics; and lower division general education oral and writing communication courses. We seek a candidate who is uniquely qualified and committed to educating working-class, ethnically diverse and historically under-served students through innovation in interdisciplinary teaching and learning, scholarship, community service and collaborative and imaginative program development. The concentrations in Practical and Professional Ethics, Peace Studies, and Pre-Law are three of the thirteen distinct concentrations offered by the Division of Humanities and Communication. HCOM is housed within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences which include programs in Visual and Public Art, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Studies, World Languages and Cultures, and Music and Performing Arts.

The successful candidate will be prepared to facilitate student abilities to integrate applied philosophy and communication studies in the pursuit of a meaningful and successful life; to develop skills associated with non-violent conflict resolution and community building; and to engage in ethical and effective argumentation, reasoning and decision making. Students earn a degree in Human Communication, framed within an interdisciplinary HCOM curriculum of multicultural literature; ethnic studies; history; race, class and gender studies; relational ethics; oral history and new media studies and cross-cultural communication. For more information regarding the Division of Humanities and Communication and the HCOM Major, please visit our website at http://hcom.csumb.edu/

Duties will include the following responsibilities:

• Teach and be prepared to develop innovative lower and upper division courses in communication ethics, dialogue and deliberation, conflict resolution and transformation, democratic participation and related coursework at the upper and lower divisions
• Teach and be prepared to develop courses in oral and written communication to serve the University?s General Education curriculum
• Teach Major Proseminar and Senior Capstone
• Sustain innovative scholarly research, publication and professional services
• Apply new scholar and pedagogies to teaching
• Participate in the shared governance of the Division, College and University
• Serve on Division, College and University-wide committees
• Provide support for one or more departmental programs and contribute to reciprocal community partnerships

QUALIFICATIONS
(MINIMUM)

• Earned doctorate in Communication Studies, Religious or Spirituality Studies or Allied Discipline
• Ability to teach courses in conflict transformation and resolutions, communication ethics and oral and written communication
• Promise of scholarly publication in relevant areas
• Ability to teach and mentor students from nontraditional, working-class and diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds

QUALIFICATIONS
(DESIRABLE)

• Ability to apply new media technologies in teaching
• Preparation for interdisciplinary teaching in Peace Studies, Gender Studies and Pre-Law
• Knowledge of second language and experience in bilingual/bicultural, multilingual-multicultural contexts
• Ability to teach and coordinate Service Learning (SL) Courses and to develop SL partnerships with regional organizations
• Skill in cross-cultural, experiential and assets-based pedagogy and teaching
• Ability to team-teach and develop cross-disciplinary conversations
• Knowledge of outcomes-based or other innovative assessment models
• Collaborative curricular decision making and advising of students

BACKGROUND CHECK

Appointment subject to a criminal background check

SCREENING BEGINS

11/16/2012

APPOINTMENT DATE

Fall 2013

All prospective applicants must apply on-line at https://mocha.csumb.edu/uhr/jobs/login_applicant.jsp

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