Part Time Faculty of First Year Experience

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Job Family Group: Faculty Time Type: Part time Department/Office: First Year Experience Exemption Status: Exempt Job Description: Trinity University is seeking a Part-Time Faculty for the Fall 2026 semester to teach the following course(s): The First-Year Experience - Why People Believe Weird Things BACKGROUND The First-Year Experience is a team-taught course designed to instruct students in how to analyze and discuss academic texts and ideas, and to produce college-level academic writing and presentations. Sections of 12-15 students take this course every day (each instructor teaches two days per week, and there is one plenary each week). Courses in a wide variety of topics are available, led by faculty topic coordinators. This particular instructor will join a team teaching the FYE topic “Why People Believe Weird Things” (no experience in this topic is necessary - all course content is already prepared and plug-in ready; new instructors are paired with veteran instructors from many different disciplines across the university). Topic Summary: In this FYE, we explore the weaknesses of human logic and emotion that cause us to embrace false conclusions. We explore fringe beliefs like those of flat-earthers, Holocaust deniers, and conspiracy theorists… but also the not-so-fringe world: popular movements and widely-held assumptions about our world that you may have never thought to even question. Why does evidence not change peoples' minds, but actually entrench them in their original views? Do ‘experts’ matter, and who gets to be called an ‘expert’ on something? Why are we seeing a resurgence of deeply polarized and tribal politics? And in the end, if we are brave enough to try, how could we possibly persuade the unpersuadable? DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Typical responsibilities of part-time faculty members include but are not limited to: Lead undergraduate sections of 12-15 students through in-person class discussions of assigned class readings and pre-programmed act

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