Part-Time Faculty in American Sign Language
Position Title: Part-Time Faculty in American Sign Language
Category: Adjunct
Posting Number: T000132
Location: Chicago
Open Date: 08/13/2024
Close Date: Open Until Filled? Yes
Job Type: Adjunct
Working Hours:
Position Summary: The Humanities Department at Roosevelt University invites applicants for the position of adjunct instructor of American Sign Language. The instructor will teach introductory American Sign Language courses (101 and 102) in person at our loop campus and will require the ability to use our course management system, Blackboard.
Reflecting the ideals of its founders in 1945, Roosevelt University is a private, nonsectarian community of educators, scholars, and learners committed to academic, creative, and service excellence, who value differences in personal experiences and perspectives; ask difficult questions; and promote mutual understanding, inclusion, social consciousness, and action toward social justice. Recognizing that difference broadens perspectives, Roosevelt University seeks and serves a diverse, promising student body from metropolitan Chicago and around the world. We invite you to contribute your talents to our community.
The College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences with a faculty of over 120 committed scholar-teachers provides students with a strong liberal-arts foundation as well as more than three dozen innovative courses of study emphasizing interdisciplinarity and civic engagement. The College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences offers courses on Roosevelt’s Chicago campus, Schaumburg campus, and online.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Sign Language Communications or a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field with 18 hours in Sign Language Communications.
Years of Experience Required: 1-2
Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
Certification/Licensure Required: Appropriate credentials in the field (ASLTA certification or ASLPI Level 4, or Certified Deaf Interpreter: CDI or DI)
Minimum Qualifications: Refer to knowledge, skills and abilities above.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Teaching at the high school or college level or the equivalent or at least one year’s full-time non-teaching work experience in the field.
- Experience working with at-risk and/or first-generation college students.
- Master’s Degree.
Equipment Operated: Standard office technology (computer, phone, etc).
Working Conditions: Normal climate-controlled office environment is provided. Job is largely sedentary, but there is a need to move about the office and buildings frequently. Occasional bending, stooping, lifting, pushing and/or pulling is required (typically less than 10 pounds).
Departmental Contact Information: Sandra Frink, Chair of the Humanities Department