Pool for Part-time Lecturer AY, Computer Science Department

Department Of Computer Science

 

Work type: Instructional Faculty – Temporary Faculty
Location: Sonoma
Categories: Temporary, Part Time, Instructional Faculty – Temporary Faculty,
Unit 3 CFA – California Faculty Association

Department of Computer Science
Temporary Faculty Position (Lecturer)

Our Commitment

Guided by our core values as a university: diversity, sustainability, community engagement, and adaptability, Sonoma State University (SSU) offers an education that fosters intellectual, social, and personal growth. SSU is a public liberal arts and sciences university. As the only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges in the state of California, we are committed to preparing students for a life of active citizenship and public service. We have a vibrant campus life characterized by a lively co-curriculum that fosters broad based intellectual and artistic opportunities in which the campus as a whole is actively engaged. Faculty members are committed to facilitating spaces in which all can grow by building on our scholars’ assets as they explore new knowledge. These efforts include fostering creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, experimentation, empathy, and communication. We strive to create a diverse, equity-minded, and inclusive campus environment. Faculty are expected to collaborate thoughtfully with our staff and scholars, which means we value the full range of everyone's assets in terms of languages, abilities, cultures, and ways of knowing. We are fully committed to the rights of scholars, staff, and faculty. We are especially interested in candidates who are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

The University

Sonoma State University’s beautiful 274-acre campus is located in Sonoma County wine country, an hour north of San Francisco. The campus offers the ideal setting for teaching and learning and access to a community of rich cultural, environmental, and recreational opportunities. Founded in 1960, SSU is one of the 23 campuses of the California State University System. As members of the largest public higher educational system in the nation, we provide accessible, high-quality education. Sonoma State University is a federally-designated Hispanic Serving Institution, as such we are committed to achieving the goals of equal opportunity and endeavors to employ faculty and staff reflecting the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region and state.

The Department

The Computer Science Department offers a Bachelor of Science degree with 300 majors, as well as a minor in computer science. The department faculty, four full-time tenured and one half time, have collective areas of expertise that span theoretical as well as applied areas of computer science. Our Bachelor of Science in Computer Science program is rooted in the proud tradition of a liberal arts education and is based on the IEEE/ACM Computer Science Curricula. Teaching excellence and mentoring students are central to our mission. We are committed to expanding and diversifying participation for groups traditionally underrepresented in computer science, and we strongly encourage faculty candidates with similar goals and relevant experience to apply.

We promote close collaboration of faculty and students that leads to research projects that are worthy of publication, as well as software system projects with research and industrial applications. Our students come to us with diverse educational backgrounds. After graduation, most students accept jobs at wide variety of companies such as Apple, Broadcom, FIS Mobile, Google, IBM, Disney, and Sonoma Technology, while others pursue graduate studies.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to see the department’s web page at:

https://cs.sonoma.edu

Duties of the Position

We are seeking qualified candidates who are able to serve in one or both of the following capacities: 

• Lab Instructors: The Computer Science Department offers many courses that consist of a lecture and a closed lab – a course component that is closely tied to the lecture and whose activities reinforce and complement the topics that are covered in the lecture. Each closed lab meets once a week, for three hours, in a classroom that is equipped with iMac workstations.
  
  Successful candidates for this position lead lab sessions and provide assistance to students as they work on their assignments. The instructor of the lecture component leads the course and is responsible for the course in its entirety, including the design of the hands-on assignments that the students are expected to complete during the lab meeting