Adjunct Faculty: Augustine and Culture Seminar Program

Posting Details

Villanova University’s first-year seminar program, the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program (ACSP), accepts applications throughout the calendar year to teach its two-semester humanities seminar. With a reading list grounded in the Augustinian, Catholic, and liberal arts traditions, the Augustine and Culture Seminar (ACS) is reading-and-writing-intensive and also facilitates student engagement in the intellectual, cultural, and artistic life of the University and the greater Philadelphia area.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The Augustine and Culture Seminar (ACS) is a two-semester first-year humanities sequence (ACS 1000: Ancients, and ACS 1001: Moderns) that educates students in Augustinian and humanistic inquiry through significant works of human culture and an intensive program of critical reading, writing, and discussion.
• Together, these features give our students a distinctive first-year experience:
• Small seminars capped at 16 students;
• An interdisciplinary and concerned with foundational texts two-semester humanities sequence;
• Broad engagement with the Augustinian and Catholic intellectual tradition, the heart of ACS 1000: Ancients is Augustine’s Confessions and the charge of ACS 1001: Moderns is to explore the modern world giving particular attention to the continuing Augustinian and Catholic intellectual traditions, as reflected in the four key concepts of Catholic Social Thought, human dignity, solidarity, the common good, and subsidiarity.
• A writing-intensive curriculum that emphasizes the writing process, argument and analysis as well as informal and other, more creative assignments;
• Integration of classroom studies and lived experience through some common texts, and required co-curricular “Approved for ACS Course Credit” events.

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a humanities or social science discipline at the time of application.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated (potential for) effective, innovative, student-centered pedagogy.
• Experience teaching writing to undergraduates.

Physical Requirements and/or Unusual Work Hours

N/A

Special Message to Applicants

• Applications must include:
• A concise cover letter that first addresses the candidate’s teaching philosophy and experience before addressing the candidate’s research interests.
• A current and complete curriculum vitae.
• Information for three references.
• Official undergraduate and graduate transcripts.

References Needed

• Minimum Number of References Needed: 3
• Maximum Number of References Needed: 3

Supplemental Questions

• How did you first hear of this employment opportunity?

Required Documents

• Resume / Curriculum Vitae
• Cover Letter / Letter of Interest
• Transcripts
• Letters of Reference (uploaded by applicant)