UnMapping Experimental Curricula Adjunct Co-instructor

About the Writers Room

Writers Room is a university-community literary arts program engaged in creative placemaking and art for social justice. A center within Drexel’s University and Community Partnership unit, Writers Room began its co-created programming in 2014 at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships, Drexel’s urban extension center in West Philadelphia. For ten years, Writers Room has built partnerships with Philadelphia cultural organizations and brought students, faculty, staff, and alumni together with local residents for productive conversation through a range of programs—from side-by-side classes, to monthly writing workshops, and cultural events.

The Lindy Center for Civic Engagement designs and leads training workshops for Drexel and other Philadelphia-area faculty in community-based learning (CBL) pedagogy and course design for nearly a decade. It supports faculty developing CBL courses across seven schools and colleges at Drexel, with partners from Drexel’s local neighborhood, the broader Philadelphia region, and global partners around the world. The Lindy Center currently supports six faculty fellowships in engaged research, community-based global learning, partnership development, creative arts and practices, and faculty resources in CBL.

Job Summary

The adjunct co-instructor will participate in Drexel’s established model of community-engaged and experiential learning through courses offered as a Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) course, in which students not only learn and discuss concepts in class but also put them into practice by engaging with each other and their communities and reflecting on the deeper meanings of their classroom and community experiences.

These courses associated with the UnMapping project invite instructors to develop new, interdisciplinary, public-facing courses that bring multi-genre literature, writing, and critical scholarship into meaningful conversation with local issues and contexts extending the study of literature beyond the university classroom.

This position is grant-funded.

Essential Functions

• Attending one training as needed before teaching the course, ongoing workshops, community-building events, and/or one-on-ones with supervising center staff.
• Ensuring the course learning outcomes are met by following the given syllabus and lesson plans in support of the course instructor.
• Attending course meetings and participating in the teaching with course instructor.
• Contributing perspective to the course instructor in the evaluation of student participation and assignments.
• Responding to course instructor, student, and supervising center communications in a timely fashion.
• Other duties related to course as requested by course instructor and/or supervising center.

Required Qualifications

• Understanding of course concepts and a comfort level with leading discussion on these concepts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Commitment to creating inclusive, equitable, anti-racist classroom environments that center and reduce harm to marginalized students.
• Commitment to support learning by showing compassion while holding students accountable.
• Ability to collaborate with course instructor and teaching assistants.
• Desire to participate in and contribute to the community of instructors, teaching assistants, and staff members, who comprise the UnMapping cohort.

Location

University City – Philadelphia, PA

Additional Information

This is a part-time position classified as Exempt .

Special Instructions to the Applicant

Please make sure you upload your CV/resume and cover letter when submitting your application.

Review of applicants will begin once a suitable candidate pool is identified.

Advertised:Sep 5 2024 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close:Sep 13 2024 Eastern Daylight Time