Assistant Professor; tenure-track) or Lecturer; non-tenure track) of Digital Media

Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Lecturer (non-tenure track) of Digital Media

Position Category: Faculty

FLSA: Exempt

FTE: .75 (academic year full-time)

Location: Thousand Oaks

The mission of California Lutheran University is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment,confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice. Founded in 1959 in beautiful Ventura County, the university has an enrollment of about 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students who come from across the nation and around theworld from a diversity of backgrounds, cultures and faiths.

As afederally recognized Hispanic-Serving Institution, Cal Lutheran islooking for candidates with a dedication to and success in workingin diverse communities. The university is committed to an inclusive learning and work environment that values individual differences and respects each person's dignity.

The Visual Arts Department at California Lutheran University seeksa full-time faculty member in Interactive Media Design and Game Design. This role will either be a tenure-track Assistant Professoror a full-time Lecturer, depending on applicant qualifications. Final determination will be made by the Provost, with the recommendation of the Dean and Department Chair.

The Visual Arts Department seeks an artist, designer, or hybridpractitioner to help lead the repositioning of the department'sInteractive Media curriculum. The Department recognizes Interactive Media as a broad and connected field, with game design and development, user experience and interface design, web andapp-based work, and immersive and real-time media all as specific areas from which a successful candidate could emerge. Ideally, the candidate has a practice that moves among these areas, and can helpstudent successfully navigate between them.

Games is an enduringarea of student interest, and so the successful candidate willteach substantive game design course(s), from concept and mechanicsto prototyping and production.

Successful candidates will help shape the future of Interactive andGame study in the Visual Arts Department. Our Digital Media and Design curriculum is being reimagined around a shared core invisual foundations, including drawing, photography, digital art,fabrication, and design. This position will play a significant rolein evaluating, developing, and instituting our interactive mediaofferings into the future.

The position additionally has the opportunity to serve as the Visual Arts faculty liaison to the University's esports program, anarea of significant growth and student interest across campus.

Under the direction of the Dean and Department Chair, the Assistant Professor or Lecturer is responsible for providing academic instruction to students for the assigned undergraduate. The Assistant Professor or Lecturer is to serve as an academic advisorto students; contribute to department and university activities;serve on faculty or university committees; engage in scholarly activities, and/or creative endeavors.

• Primary responsibilities for this position include teaching undergraduate/courses (24 for tenure-track, or 32 units/year forlecturer position) that may include, but are not limited to:
  • DMD
    100 Digital Media Fundamentals
  • DMD
    204 Visual Design and Storytelling
    • DMD
      395 Game Design I
• DMD
  475 Digital Media Capstone
• And other courses, depending on candidate expertise and curriculum developments, in areas such as interactive and experience design, 3d modeling, prototyping, and/or web andreal-time media.
• Assists the department in facilitating the vision, mission,goals, and objectives of the department consistent with those ofthe College and University
• Develops and submits annual goals and reports to department chair
• Develop and revise interactive curriculum in collaboration with departmental colleagues, including new courses that reflect current professional practice
• Advise and mentor undergraduate students, including seniorcapstone and portfolio development
• Contribute to student recruitment and to the visibility of the program regionally
• Provide academic instruction to students through lecture, lab,or performance courses. Create assignments and activities inone-on-one, classroom, and distance mediated instructional settings for development of cognitive abilities, communication skills, andhigher order thinking skills among students. E
• Observe and evaluate student performance in meeting course objectives and…