Adjunct Instructor (Pool), College of Entertainment & the Arts

The College of Entertainment & the Arts seeks part-time instructors to teach our general education courses, depending on demand. These courses fulfill components of the Lipscomb Core: Journey Framework and serve students across all majors outside of the arts as well as CEA majors.

Courses include:

• Artistic Inquiry & Human Experience (ARTS 2303) — Immerses students in the connection between art and their personal lives, revealing how art communicates meaning and enriches human experience. Students explore the dynamic relationship between the arts and broader culture, and recognize their own roles and responsibilities within the arts community. By engaging with various artistic mediums and experiences, students discern the structure and power of storytelling, explore the human condition, and encounter the power of the artistic mind.

• Career Creativity — With an eye to working creatives, this course is designed to equip students with the skills to generate fresh, innovative ideas with commercial application in multiple professional arts industry disciplines: animation, fashion, film & TV, fine art & graphic design, music, theatre, and other creative arts. Students work through a progression of creative challenges relevant to the entertainment industry. Class work is pointed towards narrative structure, collaboration, interdisciplinary thinking, working against limits, and expressing the commercial zeitgeist. By framing work within a professional context, students experience the challenges and opportunities that come with being a working creative.

• Faith and Vocation in the Arts — This course provides an introduction to the ways in which Christian theology can illuminate and be illuminated by the arts. Covering a wide variety of art forms, it seeks to show both how the Christian faith can transform the way we experience and create art, and also how the arts can enrich and enliven our practice of the Christian faith. We will take an in-depth look at the disciplines, habits, patterns, preferences, studies, and work of artists across a variety of genres with an eye towards what it means to understand art as a vocation, a calling, and how the work of imagination and interpretation can be valuable for people of faith today. There will also be an artistic encounter in which we will study aesthetic forms in the classroom such as beauty, pleasure, and criticism, and their relationship to a life of Christian faith as, concurrently, we will experience multiple artistic and aesthetic events outside of the classroom at a variety of settings in Nashville. Reflection on the meaning, success, and possibilities of the various excursions in the light of our faith will train students for fertile cultural engagement. This course is for CEA students.

The instructor would be expected to teach 3-9 hours per week, provide timely feedback and grades to students, and work with the department chair or faculty representative in organizing the courses.

Qualifications:

Education: Minimum of a master's degree in relevant discipline (Fine Arts, Art History, Theatre, Music, Film, or related arts field)

Experience: Previous college teaching experience preferred

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Lipscomb University seeks to attract and retain highly qualified faculty and staff that share the University's values and will contribute to its mission and vision to be a leader among teaching universities bringing together the best of liberal arts and professional education in a Christian community of learning and service.

• Knowledge of principles, methods and current developments in the academic discipline and in professional practice.
• Knowledge of instructional strategies and techniques appropriate to teaching the courses assigned (undergraduate, adult learners, online, etc).
• Ability to create a syllabus and effectively deliver the learning objectives of the course.
• Ability to advise, instruct, manage, motivate, and evaluate students.
• Ability to learn relevant sections of myLipscomb, Lipscomb University's online integrated database system for entering final grades and other student information requested.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Ability to effectively and appropriately integrate technology into the teaching and learning process.
• Ability to successfully interact with students, other educators and educational institution representatives, and the general public in a professional manner.