Adjunct Faculty - BA Making Conscious Media

Position Title:
Adjunct Faculty - BA Making Conscious Media WRI-458 (cross listed ART-455)

No. of Positions to Fill 1

Department/Program:
Writing & Poetics 12090

Work Location:

Arapahoe Campus

Reports to:

Valerie Hsiung

FLSA Classification:
Exempt/Salaried

FTE: 15% (6 hrs/week)

Compensation: $3900 per semester for 3 credit course ($1300 per undergrad credit)

Final date to receive applications: 7/1 or until filled

Job Summary:
The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics seeks a talented adjunct faculty member to teach WRI 458:
Making Conscious Media during the Fall 2026 semester.

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the creative, technical, and critical foundations of independent media production. Through a series of production and post-production projects, students explore moving-image practices as vehicles for artistic expression, cultural inquiry, and social engagement. The instructor will guide students in developing original media works while cultivating an understanding of how film, video, sound, and other time-based media can engage questions of aesthetics, ethics, consciousness, and the human condition.

Working within a project-based learning environment, the instructor will support students in the development of a final media project in documentary, experimental, narrative, or hybrid forms. Particular emphasis is placed on artistically ambitious work that demonstrates critical engagement with contemporary social, political, cultural, and creative concerns.

This is a 3-credit undergraduate course.

Course Description:

WRI 458:
Making Conscious Media is a hands-on creative media course that explores the conceptual, technical, and artistic dimensions of independent media production. Through a sequence of short production and post-production projects, students develop practical skills in media creation while engaging critical questions concerning representation, storytelling, experimentation, and artistic practice.

The course introduces students to a range of approaches to documentary, experimental, narrative, and hybrid media forms. Students will examine historical and contemporary examples of innovative media-making while developing their own creative projects. Emphasis is placed on work that is socially provocative, artistically bold, and grounded in thoughtful explorations of human experience.

Through screenings, readings, discussions, technical demonstrations, creative exercises, and project critiques, students learn strategies for developing media works from concept through completion. The course culminates in a final project that reflects the student's creative interests, technical development, and critical engagement with contemporary media practice.
Cross-listed with ART 455.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop a rigorous and coherent syllabus with a full semester-long arc.

• Teach and facilitate all scheduled class meetings.

• Introduce students to the creative, technical, and conceptual foundations of independent media production.

• Guide students through all stages of media creation, including concept development, production, editing, and presentation.

• Provide instruction in relevant production and post-production techniques and workflows.

• Facilitate discussions of contemporary media, experimental practice, documentary traditions, and narrative storytelling.

• Lead project critiques and foster a constructive creative feedback environment.

• Support students in developing original media projects that demonstrate artistic and critical engagement.

• Provide written and verbal feedback on student work throughout the semester.

• Assess student projects and submit grades in accordance with university policies.

• Maintain regular communication with students and respond to questions in a timely manner.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Terminal degree (MFA, PhD, or equivalent professional experience) in Film, Media Arts, Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary Arts, Documentary Studies, or a related field.

• Demonstrated record of creative or professional work in film, video, media arts, documentary practice, experimental media, or related disciplines.

• College-level teaching experience.

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