Assistant/associate Professor in Foundation

**Job Title**
- Assistant/Associate Professor in Foundation**Rank**
- Assistant or Associate Professor**Tenure Information**
- Tenure Track**Job Summary**- Situated on the unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories in Vancouver, Canada, Emily Carr University is a world-renowned learning and research community dedicated to the education of artists and designers.- The Foundation area at Emily Carr University provides the first-year, interdisciplinary curriculum for all the undergraduate majors, spanning studio courses in art, design and media practices alongside an introductory humanities lecture and seminar that ground students in a range of approaches to visual culture and critical writing. By providing core academic and studio skills across a range of interdisciplinary requirements and practice-specific electives, the Foundation curriculum provides students with introduction to technical perspectives, iterative processes of experimentation and failure, and a critical grounding in creative approaches and processes that shape their trajectories through their future majors through a holistic approach to making, learning, and community building. Within this interdisciplinary framework, we are seeking individuals with studio practice, research and teaching expertise.- Foundation is embedded in the Faculty of Culture and Community, which provides the academic core and first-year program for all undergraduate degrees at Emily Carr University. The Faculty also holds a unique and academically-oriented BFA in Critical and Cultural Practices, which enhances interdisciplinary artistic practices with a firm grounding in history, theory, and criticism; as well as a minor in Social Practice and Community Engagement, which combines community partnerships and project-based learning to model, perform, and enact new and more relational ways to live in the world together.
- **SUMMARY**
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**RESPONSIBILITIES**- Teach and mentor foundation students;
- Active participation in curriculum and program development and planning;
- Provide service to the faculty and university-wide governance systems by participation in various committees and working groups, as well as be an active and engaged member of the University community;
- Maintain an active research and scholarship profile.

**Required Qualifications**

**REQUIRED**
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**QUALIFICATIONS**
- MFA or equivalent graduate degree in a related field, or the equivalent combination of education and professional experience;
- The ability to teach a range of practice-based studio courses at the first year level, from both interdisciplinary and disciplinary perspectives;
- Demonstrated commitment to anti-racist pedagogies and evidence of teaching effectiveness in a multicultural and multilingual classroom;
- Evidence of work in advancing decolonization, Indigenization and equity in institutional settings.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills.
- The ability to work collaboratively and across disciplines.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience in the following areas will be considered an asset:
- Experience and expertise in first year pedagogy;
- The ability to relate and connect across cultures, ages, and understand the embodied complexities and experiences of first year students;

**About Emily Carr**
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design, established in 1925, is a world leader in education and research. Encouraging experimentation at the intersection of art, design, media and technology, our teaching and learning community merges studio practice, research creation, and critical scholarship in an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Alumni and faculty are internationally recognized as award‐winning creators and thought leaders who have significant impact in 21st‐century cultural production and cultural sustainability. We engage students, industry, and society to iterate and explore, and think differently about creativity and how it shapes our world.- Located in beautiful and culturally diverse Vancouver, British Columbia, Emily Carr attracts more than 1800 students from 60 countries to our undergraduate and graduate programs. The Audain Faculty of Art is one of four university faculties (alongside, Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media, Faculty of Culture + Community, and Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies) which, together with the Aboriginal Gathering Place, Library + Learning Commons, Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship, Libby Leshgold Gallery, READ Books, and the research centres and workshops in our new state‐of‐the‐art, custom‐built campus, offer vibrant conditions for the development of practice-based and practice‐led research and education.**Additional Information**

**APPLICATION**
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**PROCEDURES**
- Applications should include:
- a cover letter;
- a current curriculum vitae;
- a statement of pedagogy and up t