Job Classification: Adjunct Faculty-Teaching; Day and/or Evening Classes

Posting close date: 06/04/2024

Start date of this position: 08/29/2024

Required Degree: BFA required; MFA in Graphic Design preferred

The required degree must be completed by the start date.

Experience: Experience with communication with college-level students and collaboration with colleagues in a collegial manner. Teaching technical concepts requires an efficient thinker with a unique and enthusiastic approach to helping students.

Duties/Expectations: Teach DESGD 343: Typography II; DESGND 340: Branding; DESGD 440: Branding 2; DESGD 243: Typography; and DESGD 394R: Experimental Typography.

Courses must be taught in-person on a part-time basis for the graphic design area in the Department of Design using department-approved curriculum. Courses assigned may be taught day or evening.

The position will require lecturing, creating assignments, grading, critiques, communicating/responding to student emails, and mentoring students in their class(es). In addition to teaching courses assigned, adjunct faculty are expected to attend department training meetings. Part-time faculty are not required to hold office hours, attend staff meetings, or serve on committees.

Information required at the time of application - Please list the individual contact information for each of your three recommenders on the faculty application. At some point during the selection process, they may be contacted to submit their letters of reference electronically.

Document(s) required at the time of application - Please attach an updated Curriculum Vitae, Letter of Intent, and a Design Dept Belonging Statement (should be a one-page document explaining experiences and commitments to diversity in regards to your scholarly, teaching, mentoring, and service engagement) to the faculty application.

Department of Design Belonging Mission Statement: The Brigham Young University Department of Design recognizes diversity and inclusivity as fundamental to its learning community and integral to a design education. Our mission is to create and maintain an environment for learning that promotes respect for and appreciation of scholarship, academic freedom, human diversity, and the cultural mosaic of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; to promote excellence in instruction and creative and intellectual accomplishment; and to provide broadly accessible higher education for its students. We recognize and honor the innovation and growth that comes from voices of all kinds and we celebrate creativity and diversity in the Department of Design. We seek applicants who demonstrate a commitment to this perspective or have experience which would further the department's belonging goals

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Equal Opportunity Employer: m/f/Vets/Disability

Brigham Young University is an equal opportunity employer. All faculty are required to abide by the university's Honor Code and Dress & Grooming Standards. Preference is given to qualified candidates who are members in good standing of the affiliated church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

BYU, an equal opportunity employer, requires all faculty to observe the university's Honor Code and Dress & Grooming Standards. Preference is given to qualified candidates who are members in good standing of the affiliated church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

All new employees who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be required to hold and be worthy to hold a current temple recommend.