Instructor/Assistant/Associate/Professor - Civics Humanities Arts and Social Sciences

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Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Successful candidates should demonstrate, at a level appropriate to the rank sought: - A Masters or Terminal degree in an appropriate field. - Disciplinary expertise together with intellectual breadth beyond the candidate's principal specialization. - Ability to teach within a common curriculum and help cadets synthesize knowledge across CHASS fields. - Ability to use primary texts, close reading, writing, discussion, oral argument, and historical context to develop cadet reasoning and judgment. - Knowledge of effective undergraduate teaching, course development, assessment, and academic standards. - Ability to connect disciplinary knowledge to enduring civic and human questions and to officership, leadership, warfighting, national security, and the profession of arms. - Ability to collaborate effectively in course teams, curriculum development, faculty governance, and academic service while maintaining academic and professional currency. Associate Professors and Professors should additionally demonstrate progressively greater academic leadership. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: Relevant fields may include history, political science, government, public policy, philosophy, classics, political theory, religious studies, art history or the arts, constitutional or American studies, ethics, literature, languages, rhetoric, cultural studies, communication, sociology, anthropology, law or legal studies, civic education, interdisciplinary humanities, liberal studies, general studies, or another closely related field supporting CHASS. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: - Excellent undergraduate teaching, especially in general education or interdisciplinary settings. - Experience with common-core, great-books/core-text, primary-text, Western civilization, American constitutional, writing-intensive, seminar, or discussion-based education. - Experience teaching meaningfully beyond the candidate's principal specialization. - Course leadership, curriculum development, assessment, educational-program leadership, advising, or mentorship. - Interdisciplinary scholarship or relevant professional experience, including military education, public service, government, national security, civil-military relations, conflict, or the profession of arms. Inquiries about the position should be directed to the Dean, School of Integrated General Studies (SIGS), Dr. Mark N. Jensen, email: mark.jensen@afacademy.af.edu. Please do not email documents or completed applications to this address as they will not be considered.