Part-time Faculty, Political Science - Humanities and Social Sciences

Position Information

Plans, organizes, teaches, and provides feedback to promote and direct student success. Responds to students in a timely manner. Communicates with students, departments, and university officials via university provided tools and resources.

Typically, Monday through Friday. Teaching assignments may be made at YSU’s main location in Youngstown, Ohio, the Steubenville, Ohio location, or for remote courses. Must be able to provide regular in-person instruction as assigned.

Part-time faculty are pooled positions; appointments are made on an as-needed/rolling basis.

Teach a range of legal courses (e.g., law and society and state and local government) with a preference for expertise in how legal systems work, and how legal processes and laws affect society entirely. Must be able to provide regular in-person instruction as assigned.

Required Certifications, Training, and/or Licensures: None

Sponsorship and/or Work Authorization Status: Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Minimum Qualifications: An earned master’s degree in political science or law; able to teach constitutional law, government (local/state/federal level), and other theoretical classes; must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Preferred Qualifications: Teaching experience, in-person and online.

Physical Requirements: In accordance with the U.S. Department of Labor physical demands strength ratings, this position will perform sedentary work.

Sedentary: Work involves exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.

Please upload all transcripts as one PDF file.

At time of hire, all candidates must provide official transcripts. Official transcripts must be provided in an unopened, sealed envelope and must bear the embossed or raised college seal, date and Registrar’s signature.