Visual and Performing Arts Education Part-Time Lecturer - Arts Ed 103

University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA); California, Los Angeles (MO, CA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) seeks a Lecturer for its Visual and Performing Arts Education Program. This role involves teaching socially engaged pedagogy and engaging students with community artists. Candidates should hold an MA, with preference for MFA or PhD holders. Salary ranges from $68,247 to $192,040, depending on qualifications. Applications are open until June 12, 2025.

Qualifications

• MA required at time of application.
• MFA or PhD preferred and relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Teach Arts Ed 103 - Socially Engaged Pedagogy in the Arts course.
• Engage students with community-based artists and youth workers.
• Develop methods of popular education as a liberatory practice.

Skills

Teaching artistry

Socially engaged arts practice

Arts advocacy

Education

MA

MFA or PhD

Job description

Position overview
Position title:
Lecturer

Salary range:
Salary: Annual Salary Range $68,247-$192,040. See Table #15 at https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2024-25/july-2024-scales/t15.pdf

Rank and salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Application Window

Open date: May 13, 2025

Next review date: Thursday, Jun 12, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Thursday, Jun 12, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.

Position description

The Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE) in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture offers an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental series of courses designed to introduce undergraduates to the key issues and methodologies in the field of arts education for multiple publics and to a broad range of possible career paths including teaching artistry, K-12 classroom teaching, museum education, socially-engaged arts practice, creative arts therapies, and arts advocacy.

VAPAE is committed to creating a diverse pool of candidates for potential part-time teaching positions in arts education during each academic year. Currently, VAPAE is interested in meeting qualified candidates to teach its Arts Ed 103 - Socially Engaged Pedagogy in the Arts course.

Arts Ed 103 Course Description:

Students are in contact and conversation with active community-based artists and youth workers regularly utilizing goals, principles, and practices of socially engaged art. Based on readings and investigations, students research and write one case study on one arts site that is currently utilizing socially engaged art practices and pedagogies. Theoretical and experiential components provided for students from all arts disciplines to explore tactics and strategy of socially engaged art practice and pedagogy through a variety of approaches that may include readings, visual and audio documentation, discussion, research papers, oral presentations, and relevant guest speakers.

Arts Ed 103 Course Goals:

Students develop, practice, and implement methods of popular education as a liberatory practice, with the goal of raising critical consciousness and empowering their students and/or communities to participate creatively in the transformation of their world.

Students synthesize the revolutionary political possibilities of socially engaged art with the practice of radical pedagogy to formulate their own guiding positions. As a class, they engage with a current social justice issue that affects their communities and collaborate with those communities to devise creative projects and solutions to address the issue.

Students critically analyze and disrupt the limitations of their personal contexts within the academy, arts and education, striving for more accessible and effective communication through collaborative in-class projects and a discursive final project.

Minimum Qualifications: MA required, MFA or PhD preferred; relevant professional experience

Salary: Annual Salary Range $68,247-$192,040. See Table #15 at https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2024-25/july-2024-scales/t15.pdf

Rank and salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Appointments contingent on availability of funding.

For more information about this program: http://vapae.arts.ucla.edu

Program: https://www.vapae.arts.ucla.edu/

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

MA required at time of application.

Preferred qualifications

MFA or PhD preferred and relevant professional experience.

Application Requirements

Document requirements

• Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

  
  

• Cover Letter

  
  

• Proposed Course Syllabi - Applicants may submit course proposals and accompanying syllabi to teach the selected course.

  
  

• Statement of Teaching (Optional)

  
  

• Reference check authorization release form - Complete and upload the reference check authorization release form

  
  

• Misc / Additional (Optional)

  
  

Reference requirements

• 3-5 required (contact information only)

Please submit the names and contact information only of minimum three individuals who could be contacted at a later date regarding your application.

Apply link:
https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10334

Help contact: [e-mail]

About UCLA

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

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, are currently being investigated for misconduct, left a position during an investigation for alleged misconduct, or have filed an appeal with a previous employer.

• "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer.


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Job location

Los Angeles, CA