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PART-TIME LECTURER - Department of Dance, College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences

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Position description

Position: Lecturer, 33%

Dates: Fall Quarter 2015. Instruction begins September 24, 2015, and ends December 4, 2015. This course is scheduled on Monday and Wednesday, 2:40-4:30 p.m.

Responsibilities: Teach one upper-division studio course: DNCE 168: Dance Touring Ensemble, and other assigned duties.

This is a 4-unit, quarter system course for student dancers selected by the Dance Department to participate in the Gluck Contemporary Dance Ensemble, a project of UC Riverside’s Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts. During the ten weeks of the quarter, meeting twice weekly for two-hour classes, the instructor works with Ensemble members to create a contemporary dance program for performances in K-12 and other community sites. The goal is to create work of artistic quality that at the same time engages diverse viewers new to contemporary dance.  The course is designed to develop the skills of the performers and to prepare them for the demands of different spaces and audiences.  A graduate Gluck Fellow assists in the course and supervises the Ensemble in the following quarter, when performances take place.

Qualifications: At least three years of teaching experience; professional choreography and performance, including direction of ensemble work; community art experience. College teaching experience preferred.

Salary: $5391.32 total, in three equal installments, pending budget approval.

Review of applications will begin June 7, 2015.

To apply, submit a cover letter addressed to Wendy Rogers, Search Committee Chair; current vita; teaching evaluations if available; and the names and contact information for three references. All materials must be uploaded using UCR’s on-line application system located at https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF00327. Please contact Katrina Oskie (katrina.oskie@ucr.edu) with questions about your application. Further details about the position can be found at dance.ucr.edu.

UCR Department of Dance offers curricula leading to a B.A. in Dance, an M.F.A. in Experimental Choreography, and a Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies. These innovative programs continue to influence the field of dance studies internationally. The Department of Dance, one of twenty in our College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, is housed in the AIA award-winning Arts Building with several large studios. UCR performance venues include the University Theater and the Performance Lab, as well as the Culver Center of the Arts in downtown Riverside.

UCR is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Application Requirements

Document requirements
  • Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

  • Cover Letter - Addressed to Wendy Rogers, Search Committee Chair

  • Teaching Evaluations - (if available)
    (Optional)

  • Misc / Additional (Optional)

Reference requirements
  • 3-5 required (contact information only)