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UMBC Media & Communication Studies Lecturer Call for Applicants 

The Department of Media & Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications for a Lecturer position beginning August 2024. 

The Media and Communication Studies Department  encourages students to refine their media literacy and practice through the study of communication technology, critical and cultural communication, globalization, research methods, media production, and media history and theory.  UMBC's Department of Media and Communication Studies was founded in the belief that everyday life requires critical engagement across a range of media, platforms, and cultural contexts. Responsive to an increasingly digital, interactive, algorithmic, and globalized communication landscape, our curriculum offers an innovative and interdisciplinary education. To learn more about the Media & Communication Studies Department, please visit https://mcs.umbc.edu/.

UMBC is a Carnegie Research 1, community-engaged, minority-serving institution focused on inclusive excellence. UMBC is a dynamic and growing public research university located in the Baltimore-Washington Corridor. The university has a student population of 13,640 graduate and undergraduate students. US News and World Report regularly ranks UMBC in the top 10 of most innovative universities, and the Chronicle of Higher Education recognizes UMBC as one of its "Great Colleges to Work For" in categories including cooperative governance, compensation, teaching environment, and work-life balance. UMBC is especially proud of the diversity of its student body, and we seek to attract an equally diverse applicant pool for this position. Our faculty and campus community have a strong commitment to equity and social justice, as do our students. 

We are specifically interested in candidates with a background in Media and Communication Studies (history, media literacy, and theory), with interest and experience in any of the following: media production, digital storytelling, podcasting, video, branding, public relations, and advertising.

Candidates require a terminal degree in a relevant field. 

The successful candidate will teach a combination of courses in the Media and Communication Studies core (media literacy, media and communication history, media theory), and electives with integrated production or industry elements. The annual teaching load is eight courses (twenty-four credit hours). Candidates will also be expected to advise undergraduate students, and to contribute to the Department's service and shared governance commitments. 

Candidates need to demonstrate a commitment to high quality undergraduate teaching. Candidates must also describe the ways in which their creative works, research interests, teaching, and/or life experience contribute to

About University of Maryland, Baltimore County

UMBC is a dynamic public research university integrating teaching, research and service to benefit the citizens of Maryland. As an Honors University, the campus offers academically talented students a strong undergraduate liberal arts foundation that prepares them for graduate and professional study, entry into the workforce, and community service and leadership. UMBC emphasizes science, engineering, information technology, human services and public policy at the graduate level. UMBC contributes to the economic development of the State and the region through entrepreneurial initiatives, workforce training, K-16 partnerships, and technology commercialization in collaboration with public agencies and the corporate community. UMBC is dedicated to cultural and ethnic diversity, social responsibility and lifelong learning.

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