Position Title:

Assistant Teaching Professor in Japanese Studies

Position Type:

Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Salary Range:

Rank and Salary

• Rank: Assistant Teaching Professor.

• The salary range is $80,008 to $88,883. Offers within that range will be based on years of university teaching experience at the university/college level.

• The position provides generous benefits. https://www.scu.edu/hr/benefits/

• The University has established a rental assistance program for which assistant teaching professors are eligible to apply. For details, please refer to: https://www.scu.edu/media/offices/provost/faculty-affairs/compensation-support/housing/SCU-Faculty-Rental-Assistance-Program-for-Assistant-&-Associate-Teaching-Professors-and-JST-Lecturers-and-Law-School-Assistant-&-Associate-Clinical-Faculty.pdf

Purpose:

PURPOSE

The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university, invites applications for a full-time, renewable, non-tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor in Japanese Language and Culture, with a main or secondary specialization in Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, translation and interpretation, Japanese for the professions, and/or Cultural Studies. The successful candidate must demonstrate superior ability to integrate the teaching of language, cultural awareness, and critical thinking at all levels of instruction, expertise with proficiency and Standards-based assessment, and creativity in course design and development so as to contribute to our department’s continued efforts to promote global competence in the Jesuit model of education. The appointment start date is September 1, 2025.

The expected teaching load is seven undergraduate courses (lower to upper-division), distributed across three quarters (Fall, Winter, Spring), which constitutes 70% of any annual evaluation. Assistant Professor of Teaching positions at SCU also carry with them expectations of development in professional activity (15% of any annual evaluation) and service (the remaining 15% of any annual evaluation).  The successful candidate will have a mentor appointed to assist them as they begin at SCU. Assistant Teaching Professors are appointed for a term of three years. Reappointment to subsequent terms of three years depends upon the availability of funds, persistent programmatic need, and superior teaching, service, and professional activity.  Promotion to Associate Teaching Professor and then to Teaching Professor is possible under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.   

Located in the heart of northern California’s Silicon Valley, Santa Clara is a Catholic, Jesuit University committed to promoting social justice in a liberal arts educational setting and educating students who will build a more humane, just, and sustainable world. 

As with most of the departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is strictly an undergraduate program. Candidates with experience working with underrepresented groups and students from diverse backgrounds, and candidates with a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion are preferred.

 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

The following are required of all candidates:

• Ph.D. in the field of Japanese language and culture with a main or secondary specialization in areas such as applied linguistics, second language acquisition, translation/interpretation, Japanese for the professions, cultural studies or other related areas.  ABDs may be considered provided they can show evidence of completion by the starting date.

• Evidence of at least two years of excellence in teaching as instructor of record in Japanese language at the university level 

• Demonstrated expertise with communicatively-oriented, proficiency-oriented and Standards-based language instruction and assessment

• Native or near-native proficiency (oral & written production and comprehension) skills in Japanese and English

• Solid proficiency with digital technologies and social media as they relate to teaching and service

• Evidence of creativity in curriculum innovation as we