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TitleJob Posting: Full-Time Instructor, Culture and Language Bridge Program, Seattle University
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From: OELA Newline, March 30

Applications due: April 30, 2004

Effective September, 2004, Culture and Language Bridge Program at Seattle
University has an opening for a full-time Instructor to teach academic
speaking/presenting skills, academic writing, vocabulary, and English
structure to highly advanced, enrolled university students (first-year, juniors,
and graduate). Program instruction is based on focused and results-oriented
curricula that have the goal of improving students' language skills for
academic work in mainstream, regular university courses in various degree
programs, such as business, nursing, engineering, and humanities.

This faculty member will teach 9 or more university-level EAP/ESL courses
per year (9 to 12 contact hours/week customary) and assist with student
advising, placement test evaluation, and ongoing curriculum development, as
well as perform occasional administrative duties.

Minimum qualifications: M.A. in TESL or applied linguistics and at least 3
years of experience teaching advanced academic language skills in U.S.
colleges/universities. Near-native English proficiency required. Review of
applications to begin in early April, 2004.

Seattle University, founded in 1891, continues a four hundred and fifty year
tradition of Jesuit Catholic higher education. The University's Jesuit Catholic
ideals underscore its commitment to the centrality of teaching, learning, and
scholarship, of values-based education grounded in the Jesuit and Catholic
traditions, of service and social justice, of lifelong learning, and of educating
the whole person. Located in the heart of dynamic Seattle, the University
enrolls approximately six thousand undergraduate and graduate students in
eight schools and colleges. Students enjoy a university ethos characterized
by small classes, individualized faculty attention, a strong sense of
community, a commitment to diversity, and an outstanding faculty. Seattle
University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

Send applications to:
Attn: Dr. Eli Hinkel
Lynn Building, Rm. 116
900 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122
Tel: (206) 296-6064
Email: ehinkel@seattleu.edu
http://seattleu.edu
SourceSeattle University
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