Adjunct Instructor: Advanced Media Production Course

Adjunct Instructor: Advanced Media Production Course Media Arts & Culture Program Occidental College Los Angeles, CA

Occidental’s Media Arts and Culture Program is seeking a media practitioner or theorist/practitioner with demonstrated prior teaching experience to teach our Spring 2016 ArtM 355 Advanced Projects course.

This is a junior-level undergraduate course for majors pursuing our Media Production Track, with a projected enrollment of 16 students. Each student will direct an original 5-minute media project that can range in form across fiction, documentary, or experimental approaches. Traditionally we divide the class into 4-person crew cohorts to ensure each student director/editor has a dedicated producer, cinematographer, and sound recordist, and students rotate through each of these crew position once during the semester. As such, the class is designed to cultivate personal creative voice, directorial leadership, crew collaboration, and technical/logistical production capacities in preparation for senior thesis work.

Inherent in our liberal arts history/theory/praxis approach, our program seeks to cultivate makers who address issues of personal and cultural relevance through innovative storytelling, making smart use of the resources at their disposal. More class-specific information on project parameters and our measures to both professionalize students, but also ensure principles of excellence and equity in the process, can be found in our Student Production Handbook.

The course meets twice weekly (5 hrs. total) to accommodate the requisite critiques and workshops. Students shoot on Canon 7D cameras with access to a range of lighting and grip equipment, record dual- system audio, and edit in Adobe Premiere and associated Adobe Cloud software platforms. The program’s Manager of Digital Production is able to conduct specific software demos with advance notice, and a modest course budget is available to bring in professional guests for targeted workshops, but candidates are expected to be able to provide both conceptual and technical instruction in the classroom.

Candidates should possess professional credentials/credits as media practitioner, technical capacities in digital media production, have prior teaching experience, and hold a terminal degree (M.F.A.) in a related field. Additional graduate study in the humanities is particularly welcome.

Applicants should submit (1) a current CV; (2) a cover letter detailing how education, professional work, and teaching experiences fit with both the position description and the particularities of an undergraduate liberal arts institution; and (3) the names/contact information of two professional references. All submissions are electronic, and should be sent to Dr. Broderick Fox at [email protected] by September 1, 2015 for full consideration, though applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.

More information on the Media Arts & Culture Program can be found at: http://www.oxy.edu/media-arts- culture

This position is for the Spring, 2016 semester (est. Jan 19-May 8). As this is a one-course position, it does not come with formal College benefits, though parking, athletic facilities access, and library use are provided to teaching faculty. Occidental College is an equal opportunity employer. The College is committed to academic excellence in a diverse community and to supporting interdisciplinary and multicultural academic programs that provide a gifted and diverse group of students with an educational experience that prepares them for leadership in a pluralistic world. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.