2026-27 AY Lecturer Pool - Communication Studies

Job description

DEPARTMENT: Communication Studies POSITION TITLE: Lecturer Pool – Communication Studies POSITION DETAILS: Communication Studies is a broad-based discipline focused on exchanging messages in interpersonal and mediated forms and on creating those messages. Courses focus on understanding the communication process and developing skills to communicate effectively. The Department offers a wide range of courses in interpersonal, group, and organizational communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, public relations, mass communication, journalism, and film. Duties of a part-time lecturer include instruction, class preparation, grading, and office hours. Other duties may be assigned based on departmental needs. Course assignments, including dates, time, and modality, are made by the Department Chair under the direction of the College Dean. Part-time lecturers are instructional faculty with conditional appointments based on enrollment and budget. Hires from the pool of applicants are made when there are instructional needs to fill coursework offered by an academic department based on changing enrollment patterns, changes to tenure-track faculty assignments, and other factors that cannot...