[Cwgrad-announcements] Job Announcement - San Francisco State Asst. Professor, Screenwriting

[Robin Russin]

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> October 13, 2006
> SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
> FACULTY POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
> CINEMA DEPARTMENT
> POSITION TITLE: SCREENWRITING
> RANK: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
> APPOINTMENT DATE: FALL 2007
> QUALIFICATIONS:  The Department seeks a writer or a writer/ 
> filmmaker who can provide leadership as we expand the screenwriting  
> curriculum, and who would have interest in integrating new  
> screenwriting courses with our other offerings. Candidates should  
> have had professional success in screenwriting for cinema and  
> related  media and/or hold a terminal Ph.D. or MFA degree.  
> Knowledge of cinematic forms and traditions outside of the  
> Hollywood model is vital. Teaching experience and work that has  
> been realized on screen are further qualifications sought in the  
> ideal candidate.  The ability to also teach in the areas of film  
> production or cinema studies is a distinct advantage.
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> RESPONSIBILITIES: The Department seeks a versatile screenwriter who  
> can teach a range of screenwriting  courses at the graduate and  
> undergraduate levels.  Our students produce work in short fiction  
> and non-fiction, documentary, animation and experimental formats,  
> as well as feature scripts. Other duties include supervising  
> master’s thesis projects and independent study projects, working  
> with undergraduate students to help develop  their
> projects, undergraduate major advising, curriculum development and  
> other committee assignments.
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> APPLICATION DEADLINE: Review of applications will begin January 2,  
> 2007 and will continue until position is  filled.
>
> APPLICATION PROCEDURE:  Applicants should submit the following:  1)  
> a letter of application indicating  professional and academic  
> experience, approach to teaching and goals as a potential colleague  
> at SFSU;  2) current CV;  3) two copies of at least one sample  
> screenplay (preferably two screenplays);  4) samples of syllabi  
> from courses taught or proposed in screenwriting and samples of  
> other courses taught; and  5) a list of three  references with  
> contact information. Please do not submit letters of recommendation  
> at this time.  Applications and all supporting materials should be  
> submitted in hard copy form.
>
> Please send to:   Britta Sjogren, Chair Screenwriting Search  
> Committee Cinema Department  San Francisco State University 1600  
> Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA  94132
>
> Cinema is one of six departments in the College of Creative Arts,  
> with twenty tenured and tenure-track faculty members, and some  
> twenty-two part-time faculty, serving approximately seven hundred  
> film students. Committed to the teaching of film production and  
> cinema studies as a common enterprise, we offer a Liberal Arts BA  
> degree  in Cinema, an MA in Cinema Studies, and an MFA in Cinema,  
> as well as a specialized animation emphasis
> open to both graduate and undergraduate students.
>
> San Francisco State University, a member of the California State  
> University system, serves a diverse student body of 29,000  
> undergraduate and graduate students. The University seeks to  
> promote appreciation of scholarship, freedom and, human diversity  
> through excellence in instruction and intellectual accomplishment.   
> SFSU faculty are expected to be effective
> teachers and demonstrate professional achievement and growth  
> through research, scholarship, and/or creative work. San Francisco  
> State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
>
> Please remember that postings to the listservs are for information  
> only and are not an endorsement. Please conduct your own due  
> diligence on all opportunities.
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