Creative Technologies Lecturer Pool

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Creative Technologies Lecturer Pool Position overview Position title: Pre-six Creative Technologies Lecturer Salary range: A reasonable estimate for an appointment to teach a standard five-credit course is $8,872-$12,650 (based on salary points 1-13). Compensation for Summer Session courses may vary from courses taught during the academic year. Percent time: Variable, based on the course load assigned. Anticipated start: Appointments are contingent on the hiring units instructional need and the availability of funding. This recruitment is valid for initial appointments made in fall quarter 2026 through fall quarter 2027. Initial appointments with effective dates outside of this recruitment period will require an alternative open recruitment. Position duration: Appointments are typically made during one or more quarters of the regular academic year (fall, winter, and spring quarters), but they may also be made during Summer Session. Application Window Open date: June 17, 2026 Next review date: Friday, Jul 17, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Friday, Aug 6, 2027 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled. Position Description The Creative Technologies program at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for an ongoing pool of lecturers who may be appointed to teach lower and/or upper division undergraduate courses, either during the academic year or Summer Session. Possible course topics include: practices and tools of digital arts and design (including sound design, intermedia design, web design, and animation); media studies, including histories and cultures of media; justice-, decolonization-, anti-racist, transgender and feminist approaches to arts, design and media technology; histories and cultures of arts and design technology; interdisciplinary arts and design practices; creative coding; sound processing, sound production, and sound synthesis; playable media studies and game design; three-dimensional design; immersive reality; machine creativity and machine learning; and technologies of real-time interaction and performance. Creative Technologies (CT) is an online interdisciplinary arts and design major, with contributions from faculty across the Arts Division. Its curriculum synthesizes creative work with questions of ethics, equity, power, inclusion, democracy, and diversity, and lecturers applying to the program should demonstrate the relevance of their experience and qualifications to those outcomes. The program centers innovative teaching and learning environments, paired with an emphasis on emerging arts and design technologies and the active roles of artists and designers in cultivating a just and ethical society. Preference will be given to candidates with any of the following qualifications: Experience with synchronous and/or asynchronous online learning environments and teaching modalities. Experience with justice-focused pedagogy. Experience with universal design and accessibility, disability justice-informed teaching. Internal candidates will be given priority consideration. Creative Technologies: https://creative.ucsc.edu/ Qualifications Basic qualifications (required at the time the application is submitted) M.F.A. or higher (or equivalent, terminal foreign degree); or at least two years of creative work experience resulting in publications, performances, exhibitions, or recordings that reflect a national and/or international profile of accomplishment. Demonstrated record of having taught at least one course at a college or university. Application Requirements Document requirements Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. Cover Letter Statement of Teaching - Teaching statement appropriate for the students that enroll at UC Santa Cruz. Candidates are urged to review the statement guidelines before preparing their application. Student evaluations of teaching (1 required course set) - Special consideration may be given to those candidates who can give student evaluations of teaching in online or hybrid-modality courses. An evaluation set from at least one course is required; up to three may be submitted. Student evaluations of teaching (1 of 2 optional course sets) - Special consideration may be given to those candidates who can give student evaluations of teaching in online or hybrid-modality courses. An evaluation set from at least one course is required; up to three may be submitted. (Optional) Student evaluations of teaching (2 of 2 optional course sets) - Special consideration may be given to those candidates who can give student evaluations of teaching in online or hybrid-modality courses. An evaluation set from at least one course is required; up to three may be submitted. (Optional) Reference requirements3-5 letters of reference required Applications must include confidential letters of recommendation*. Note that your references, or dossier service, will submit their confidential letters directly to the UC Recruit System. *All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. For any reference letter provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service, career center), direct the author to UCSCs confidentiality statement. Apply link: https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02098 Help contact: espitz@ucsc.edu About UC Santa Cruz As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct. "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicants previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment

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