Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Adjunct Instructor: Chinese

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Title: World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Adjunct Instructor:
Chinese

Employee Classification: Adjunct Faculty

Campus: University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Provost

Sub Division-Department: UNT-College of Lib Arts & Soc Sci

Department: UNT-World Lang, Lit, & Cultures-122800

Job Location: Denton

Salary: Compensation is competitive and commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications, experience, and discipline, in accordance with university guidelines and available funding.

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Department Summary

The Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures offers majors in French, German, and Japanese as well as professional certification in French. The professional certification is useful for careers in travel and tourism, law enforcement, the medical profession, and business. Minors in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Latin are also available.

The Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures seeks qualified individuals for its Adjunct Instructor pool and welcomes applicants at any time. This posting is for the Fall 2025, Spring 2026 and Summer 2026 semesters. The specific courses involved may vary from semester to semester and openings to teach these courses develop on a periodic basis, depending on department teaching needs.

UNT has a highly diverse campus with a wide range of languages spoken in addition to English. We welcome candidates who have experience with HSI/MSIs and/or who speak Spanish, Vietnamese, American Sign Language, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin and other variations), Arabic, Tagalog, Farsi, French, or/and Yoruba.



Position Overview

Adjunct faculty teach beginning and intermediate Chinese courses. Faculty in this position work closely with the Chinese section coordinator to ensure they are teaching in alignment with department expectations. Adjunct faculty are required to hold one hour of office hours per week for each course taught.

The anticipated need is to teach undergraduate course(s) for beginning and intermediate Chinese.



Minimum Qualifications

M.A. with preferably a minimum of 18 graduate credit hours directly related to assigned course(s) in Chinese.



Preferred Qualifications

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