Apply for the Open Faculty Position in Organic Chemistry
Chemistry Department (posted 08/01/08)
Monmouth College, a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, announces a tenure-track position in Organic Chemistry to begin August 2009. Required: PhD in organic chemistry (prefer completion by August, 2009); excellence in teaching and developing a research program to engage undergraduates. Preferred: additional expertise in inorganic, computational, or environmental chemistry.
Teaching duties include organic chemistry, chemistry for non-science majors, and courses in Monmouth’s integrated studies program (see descriptions and websites below). The successful applicant will be involved in the design of a new science building, scheduled for completion within 5 years. More information about this position can be found at http://department.monm.edu/chemistry.
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, undergraduate and graduate transcripts, statement of teaching philosophy, research plans, and list of 3 professional references to: Laura Moore, Chair, Chemistry Search, Monmouth College, 700 E. Broadway, Monmouth, IL, 61462, or by e-mail to facultysearch@monm.edu. Review begins October 17, 2008 and continues until filled.
Monmouth College, an Equal Opportunity Employer, is committed to diversity and encourages applications from women and minority candidates.
Monmouth’s Integrated Studies Program
Freshman
Year - Introduction to Liberal Arts
http://www.monm.edu/ila/index.htm
Our Integrated Studies program begins with
Introduction to Liberal Arts. We meet first-year students in the midst of the
transition between high school and college. Guided by an instructor who is
professor, mentor, and the students’ academic advisor, the course addresses the
purposes of liberal and collegiate education by examining a single topic or
theme from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The aim is to identify and
celebrate the liberal arts as a community of learners excited by the informed
exchange of ideas. Although all sections share common objectives, foundation
skills goals, common core readings, and a common theme, each section is enhanced
by the instructor’s distinctive emphasis, as indicated by course subtitles.
Students meet three times a week with a faculty seminar leader, and all
seminar groups meet together on Tuesday at 11 A.M. for a colloquium, lecture, or
other presentation. Students earn four semester hours of credit for the seminar.
Sophomore Year - Global Perspectives
http://department.monm.edu/gp/index.htm
Once our students have found their new place in
the world of higher education, we ask them in the second year to turn attention
to their place in the larger world: to investigate communities, societies,
political systems, and civilizations other than their own. How are we to
understand a complex and changing world and its peoples, where events unfold and
are chronicled with ever-increasing speed? Global Perspectives addresses this
question by highlighting the influence and importance of cultural differences
and by asking students to understand culture as a lens through which we view the
world. Inherent in this process is fostering critical thinking about the
students’ own place in that world, as well as garnering knowledge about world
political economy, about global demographics, and about the differences between
developed and developing nations. Like Introduction to Liberal Arts, Global
Perspectives shares common readings and emphasizes communication skills
introduced in the first year.
Junior Year - Reflections
http://www.monm.edu/department/reflections/index.htm
The turn outward represented by Global
Perspectives is balanced in Reflections by a turn inward to consideration of
personal values. As in Global Perspectives we ask students in Reflections
courses to analyze familiar and unfamiliar systems of thought and belief, but
this time in order to explore their own and others’ ideas about the ultimate
meaning and purposes of our lives. Because inquiry about human values can occur
in a variety of disciplinary contexts, our students may choose in their third
year from a menu of courses representing philosophical, religious, artistic, and
scientific perspectives. Yet each course in its own way addresses foundational
questions, linking provisional answers to descriptions of ethical conduct and an
examined life.
Senior Year - Citizenship
By the time students are
seniors, they have been asked in Integrated Studies courses to develop some
understanding of their places in college, their places in the world, and their
own beliefs and values. The senior capstone course, Citizenship, challenges
students to move past study and contemplation to conscientious action.
Citizenship courses, chosen from a menu of offerings, typically take an
interdisciplinary approach to understanding important social issues. Then
students are called upon to address those issues variously as citizens of
community, nation, and world. Individual and group projects may involve position
papers, social or political policy proposals, development of and participation
in service projects, or other experiential learning projects.
Chemistry Courses
the Successful Applicant
will Teach Include:
1. Organic I
and II with lab
2. Advanced Organic (one semester
every other year)
3. Non-majors chemistry (Topic/theme flexible)
Chemistry and Biochemistry Major 4-year plans
Depending on interests and strengths, the successful applicant may also
contribute to and/or develop courses for the following:
1. Inorganic Chemistry
2. The upper-level Integrated Laboratory Course
(particularly the synthetic component)
3. Environmental Chemistry (to be developed for
Environmental Science Program)
4. General Chemistry
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