Skip to main content

This job has expired

Core Faculty, M.A. Depth Psychology and Creativity Program

Employer
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Location
California, United States
Salary
Salary Commensurate with experience
Date posted
May 10, 2022

View more

Position Type
Faculty Positions, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Psychology
Employment Level
Non-Tenured Track
Employment Type
Full Time

M.A. Depth Psychology and Creativity Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute:

Core Faculty Position

 

Applications are invited for the open rank position of fulltime core faculty in the Depth Psychology and Creativity with Emphasis in the Arts and Humanities Program (DCH) at Pacifica Graduate Institute, effective fall 2022.

 

Pacifica Graduate Institute is a WSCUC accredited graduate school offering degree programs in the fields of Psychology, Mythological Studies, the Arts and Humanities. Campuses are located between the foothills and the Pacific Ocean a few miles south of Santa Barbara. This full-time position requires the candidate to be located within acceptable proximity to Pacifica’s Santa Barbara-area campuses to allow for necessary campus presence/engagement. 

 

Pacifica is committed to providing an open, fair, inclusive, non-discriminatory environment for all individuals across differences of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, socio-economic status, ethnicity, age, physical ability, or medical condition. We encourage applications from people in historically under-represented groups.

 

About the Program

 

The Depth Psychology and Creativity with Emphasis in the Arts and Humanities Program (DCH) offers a broad, highly transdisciplinary, two-year MA. degree for those seeking to combine disciplined, intellectual exploration with creative expression. The program is designed for those who seek to live and work more intuitively, meaningfully, and expansively, while fostering the same qualities in others. We seek intellectual and creative risk-takers, agents of change, and producers of new knowledge with demonstrated success in the application of their intellectual and creative work. We value faculty who view students as collaborative partners, individuals with powerful lived experiences and capacities to shape their own learning.

 

The program believes that multiple forms of art making are powerful modes of research and knowledge-making. Arts-based research, as taught in the program, combines intellectual rigor with creative expression, encouraging dialogue between students and faculty with a focus on expanding our individual and collective potentials as contributors to the unfolding of a more just, vibrant, sustainable, and soulful world. Not a clinical or counseling training program, DCH attracts individuals from the visual, performing, narrative, film, video, and media arts, as well as from advertising, marketing, architecture, fashion, and design. Teachers at every grade level and from diverse and overlapping fields, such as social work, community organization, corporate leadership, somatics, yoga, the healing arts, and ministry, frequently apply to and enroll in this program.

Job Description

 

The candidate selected for this position is expected to teach and perform a range of administrative functions primarily in the Depth Psychology and Creativity Program, a “hybrid” program with once-a-quarter, four-day residential in-person teaching and augmented with online learning. The candidate might also teach other hybrid courses (especially in the MA/PhD program in Jungian and Archetypal Studies) or traditional delivery courses across Pacifica’s degree programs as needed and per qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications

  • D. in the arts and humanities, psychology, or a related discipline.
  • Three years of teaching experience at graduate level in depth psychology or related field.
  • Record of publications, exhibitions, and/ public speaking in the field (books, peer-reviewed articles, articles for the general public, group and solo exhibitions, public art, conference presentations, etc.)
  • Expertise in depth psychological theories and practices (Jungian, post-Jungian, and archetypal), and their application to the arts, humanities, and creative practice.
  • Ability to teach courses in multiple areas of Jungian and/or archetypal psychology, mythology, philosophy, creativity, and creative practice.
  • Demonstrated ability to teach online and/or teach students concurrently on-campus and online.
  • Expertise using information technology, especially the Brightspace (D2L) and Zoom platforms.
  • Willingness to periodically serve as specialization Chair or Associate Chair in line with program needs.
  • Experience serving on graduate-level doctoral dissertation committees and ability to mentor students in the dissertation process. (While the DCH program is not a doctoral program, core faculty serve on dissertation committees for students in Pacifica’s non-clinical doctoral programs, such as DJA, DPT, Mythological Studies, and CLIE.)
  • Experience guiding and mentoring alumni post-graduation.
  • Experience creating and delivering non-degree programs for an engaged public, such as those offered by PGI Online/Pacifica Retreat Center.
  • Experience with administrative duties in graduate education, such as applicant file reviews and interviews, open houses, exams, program reviews, and committee work advancing institutional initiatives.
  • Experience with recruiting, training, and mentoring adjunct faculty.
  • Sensitivity to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in education.
  • Commitment to Pacifica’s mission to “tend the soul of and in the world.” We value transformative and collaborative learning, social justice, community building, environmental awareness, imagination, embodied learning, and the arts.

 

Please visit our website to familiarize yourself with our program. Submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, recently published paper or publication, statement of teaching philosophy, research interests, background working with dissertation students, courses you would be qualified to teach, your experience of working with students of diverse backgrounds, and three references. Send applications to:

 

Department of Human Resources
Pacifica Graduate Institute
249 Lambert Road
Carpinteria, CA 93013

hr@pacifica.edu

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalized job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert