[Ahs-grads] Summer online teaching

[Homer Arnold]

Hello, I sent an email to Susan, but I am copying it here as well for
everyone-

I want to respond to your email regarding teaching summer classes at UCR
and say I am very interested in that opportunity. In the past, I have
taught very successful video art classes, which I would love to do again.
At this time, I am free to teach either summer session. I would also
welcome the chance to teach Introduction to Media Art, which I saw listed
on the spreadsheet. I feel that could be a nice branching out from video,
but I know video has always filled in the past and is, therefore, my first
choice.

I am attaching my updated CV and class evals from last summer.

Please let me know if you need anything else, and again, thanks for all the
opportunities!


On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM Susan Laxton <slaxton at ucr.edu> wrote:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> Please read this email carefully if you are interested in teaching in the
> summer session.
>
>
> The department is always working hard to provide support and professional
> development for you, our graduate students. As part of this, we make a
> portion of the department’s summer session teaching available to our
> advanced students. The department typically offers 4-5 introductory and
> upper-division courses each summer. These are managed by the Summer
> Sessions Office, and are taught on campus as 5-week “concentrated” courses
> during two summer terms (late June-July; late July-August). These courses
> must be drawn from our existing undergraduate offerings. Topics are
> selected by the department to meet the needs of the undergraduate
> curriculum and students. The list of courses that have been named this
> year are attached here.
>
>
> *We now invite expressions of interest/applications from our advanced
> graduate students to teach during summer 2024.* Minimum requirements are
> an M.A. in hand and demonstrated teaching experience. TA-ships count
> towards this, but a record of designing and teaching on your own will be
> especially valuable. Those who are currently working on their M.A. but
> expect to have it in hand at the completion of Spring term 2024 *may* be
> considered, but only with iron-clad assurances from the student, the
> graduate advisor, and the primary MA advisor that the degree will be fully
> completed in June, since the appointment will have to be cancelled if the
> thesis isn’t finished in time.
>
>
> If you are interested, please submit to the Dept Chair via email:
>
> 1. your current CV (listing your teaching experience)
>
> 2. a short paragraph giving a sense of topics or areas you'd feel
> comfortable to teach
>
> 3. a sentence stating which term(s) you would be available (first, second,
> or either)
>
> Please submit your materials by *Friday,  March 21, 2025*. The decisions
> are made by the Department Chair. Please note: the process is competitive
> and there is no guarantee of selection or employment. However, I can
> promise that all submissions will receive full consideration on the basis
> of their quality and the needs of the undergraduate curriculum.
>
>
>
> We believe this can be a very valuable means to gain financial support and
> professional experience. There are, however, some things you should
> consider:
>
>
>  —Summer courses, even once listed, are not guaranteed to take place. Per
> the Summer Session Office protocol, they may be cancelled up to the last
> minute due to lack of enrollment, even a day or two before the beginning of
> session. Because of this we encourage students, even if assigned a course,
> to continue pursuing summer funding opportunities including research
> fellowships and other types of employment both on and off campus.
>
>
>
> —The chance to design and teach your own course provides invaluable
> preparation for your career. However, you should recognize that creating
> and teaching a course is intensive, time consuming, on-site work. You will
> be held to the high standard we expect of all our instructors. I encourage
> you to consider how taking on a teaching assignment will impact your degree
> progress (PhDs) or other professional ambitions (MAs).
>
>
> —Regarding the courses, while you will have some freedom to determine the
> topics, materials, and assignments for the course, the subject matter must
> conform to the course you are assigned. We are unable to facilitate the
> teaching of courses tailored to an instructor’s individual research.
>
>
> —Given that summer is when regular faculty devote themselves to research
> (often far from campus), you will be expected to work very independently.
> There will be staff and VRC support available to you, but your advisor will
> probably not be available as a backstop. You must be willing to take on
> this responsibility.
>
>
> Finally, please know that these opportunities should be available each
> summer. So, please consider where such an experience might best fall within
> your overall degree/career plan. Your advisor can certainly help you in
> thinking this through.
>
>
> Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
>
> Susan Laxton
> Associate Professor, Modernism and the History of Photography
> Chair, Department of the History of Art
> University of California, Riverside
>
>
>  *Surrealism at Play* <https://www.dukeupress.edu/surrealism-at-play>,
> Duke University Press
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-- 
Getty Research Assistant, Office of the Deputy Director
Getty Research Institute

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of The History of Art
University of California, Riverside
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