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> From: Dan Smith <[email protected]> > Date: September 27, 2011 1:47:16 PM CDT > To: CAGLIST <[email protected]> > Subject: [Caglist] Quest University - Full-time, Continuing Social Sciences > Faculty Position > > Quest University Canada > > Full-time, Continuing Social Sciences Faculty Position > http://www.geog.uvic.ca/dept/cag/jobs.htm#L976 > > Quest University Canada seeks applicants for a full-time, continuing faculty > position and we will consider candidates from any social science discipline > or any interdisciplinary program where the focus is on the social sciences. > The successful candidate will teach concentration courses in their area of > specialty and social science courses in our Foundation Program, > especially Global Perspectives and Democracy and Justice, which are required > of all students. All Quest faculty are expected to be able to teach the > Cornerstone and Question courses, and candidates who demonstrate the > willingness and experience to teach Rhetoric will be given special > consideration. In your letter of application please discuss which courses you > can create for our concentration program that would expand our offerings to > Quest students interested in the social sciences. Please also specify how you > are qualified to teach Democracy and Justice and Political Economy. For more > detail on these and other courses see > http://www.questu.ca/academics/foundation_program/course_descriptions.php). > Rank open. Please do not apply for this position if you are applying for any > other position currently being offered at Quest. Hiring for this position is > subject to budgetary approval. > > All Quest classes are seminar-style and are limited to enrolments of fewer > than 20 students. Our faculty is highly interactive and attuned to > opportunities to develop interdisciplinary courses. Further details about > Quest and the application procedure can be found under Information for > Faculty Applicants. Applications should be sent to [email protected]; > please put the words "Social Science General" in the subject heading. > > A PhD (or equivalent) and some teaching experience is required. Although > research, especially that involving undergraduates, is encouraged, those > seeking a research-focused faculty position should not apply. Applications > should be received by November 1, 2011; interviews for finalists will be > scheduled in November and December. The start date for the position is August > 1, 2012. > > _______________________________________________ > CAGList mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/caglist ++++++++++++++++++ Eric Sheppard Vice President, Association of American Geographers Regents Professor, Department of Geography Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change Director of Graduate Studies, Development Studies and Social Change 414 Social sciences building 267, 19th Ave. South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA http://www.geog.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=shepp001
