First-Year Writing Seminar and Literature Core (Part-Time) Position Available In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

First-Year Writing Seminar and Literature Core (Part-Time)
First-Year Writing Seminar and Literature Core (Part-Time)

Company:

Boston College

Job Location:

Chestnut Hill, 02467

Category:

English and Literature

Type:

Adjunct/Part-Time Boston College:

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences:

English Location:

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Description:

Please Note:

While we accept applications to teach on a part-time basis throughout the year, all of our course needs for the 2024-25 academic year have been met. We anticipate looking for new part-time faculty during the second half of the spring semester 2025. If you submit an application now, you may not hear back from us until then. The Boston College English Department accepts applications to teach first-year undergraduate courses on a part-time basis throughout the year. Consideration is based on availability of courses to teach, scheduling, and qualifications. All courses are in-person. These courses are the First-Year Writing Seminar (FWS) and Literature Core, which together form a key part of BC’s Core Curriculum. They are designed to complement each other by helping students to develop essential skills for a liberal arts education. Some 1,600 students take FWS each year, and more than 2,000 enroll in the Literature Core. FWS encourages students to understand why people write: not just for grades or to complete requirements but because writing is an intellectual and personal tool for living. In15-person workshop-centered seminars, students use writing to discover new insights, orient themselves to broader conversations, deepen their understanding of ideas, and create changes in service of the common good. Over the semester, students learn to write rhetorically, devising effective writing processes for a variety of purposes and audiences, including but not limited to, academic writing. Students also meet regularly with the instructor to make revision plans, learn to give and receive productive feedback to other writers, and develop skills for revising essays before submitting them for evaluation. Literature Core is designed to introduce first-year students to the study of literature at the college level. The focus is on the appreciation of the extraordinary range of what counts as literature, and on what skills studying literature teaches. Each section is typically organized around a theme or topic, with a range of genres represented, diversity in the list of authors, and some effort to include at least one pre-1900 work. The learning outcomes for the course are focused on teaching mostly first-year students close-reading skills, ways of thinking about big questions, fostering intellectual community, and active learning in the classroom. We hope to spark students’ engagement, make them see how literature can be a part of life, a “tool for living” and thinking. With such outcomes in mind, these courses should be broad in their conceptualization and not resemble a typical elective, which focuses on specific topics. Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university that strives to integrate research excellence with a foundational commitment to formative liberal arts education. We encourage applications from candidates who are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic community. BC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected category including disability and protected veteran status. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at http://www.bc.edu/offices/diversity.

Qualifications:

MA or MFA is required. For Lit Core instructors, MFA, ABD or recent PhD is preferred. For FWS instructors, please note whether you have taken a course in composition theory/pedagogy in your cover letter. HigherEd360 is part of the HigherEdJobs network.