Position Description & Duties
The Honors Program at Northern Kentucky University seeks to hire a full-time faculty member to teach courses in the 21-hour interdisciplinary Honors minor, beginning August 2010. Primary teaching responsibilities will be the required introductory Honors First-year Seminar, as well as 200 and 300 level Honors seminars. Honors Program seminars are designed to appeal to a variety of majors, with an emphasis on dialogic learning, undergraduate research projects, and innovative pedagogy. The successful candidate will be a dedicated and passionate teacher who enjoys working with highly motivated, academically excellent students in a small-class setting. Honors seminars are typically capped at 15 students.

Preferred Qualifications
Area(s) of specialization or emphasis are open, but the Program is particularly interested in developing courses in the history of science and science writing; visual culture, media, and new media studies; culture studies; transnationalism; theories of globalization; race, gender, and sexuality studies; and health communications. In addition to teaching, Honors Program faculty are expected to direct student Capstone work, the two-semester independent research or creative project that is the culminating student experience within Honors.

Qualification Requirements
This is a non-tenure track, full-time renewable position. Candidates should hold the Ph.D., or terminal degree in their field, and be able to bring their research interests into classes populated by first and second-year students. Experience with Honors teaching a plus.

Applications
Please send a cover letter; cv; statement of teaching philosophy; 1-2 syllabi for potential Honors courses; graduate transcripts; and two letters of recommendation to: Search Committee Chair; Honors Program; Northern Kentucky University; Honors House; Nunn Drive; Highland Heights KY 41099.

Review of applications will begin on March 10, 2010 and continue until the position has been filled.

Northern Kentucky University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.