Professor - Sociology teaches courses in the discipline area of sociology. Develops and designs curriculum plans to foster student learning, stimulate class discussions, and ensures student engagement. Being a Professor - Sociology provides tutoring and academic counseling to students, maintains classes related records, and assesses student coursework. Collaborates and supports colleagues regarding research interests and co-curricular activities. Additionally, Professor - Sociology typically reports to a department head. Requires a PhD or terminal degree appropriate to the field. Has considerable experience and is qualified to teach at undergraduate and graduate levels and initiates research and case studies in field of interest and may publish findings in trade journals or textbooks. Provides intellectual leadership and has made significant contributions to the field. May offer independent study opportunities and mentoring to students. Typically this individual is a leader in the field and has been published. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
Duties and Responsibilities
The College of Arts and Sciences at North Park University seeks applicants, with a Ph.D. in Sociology, for an open rank, full-time tenure-track position in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Candidates with immediate interests and aptitudes to serve as departmental chair will be extremely attractive. The department is grounded in sociological discipline with sociology majors having to complete four core courses, and electives in four main concentrations of social identity, social organization, social deviance, and social change. About 25 percent of departmental students are sociology majors with 75 percent being criminal justice or double majors. This is a sociology hire where the ideal candidate will significantly contribute to the development of those majors in general and specific ways.
Each fall and spring semester, the successful candidate will carry three teaching loads. One load is the equivalent to teaching one course of four semester hours. They are expected to fill the department’s most pressing teaching needs in the subjects of race and ethnicity, social problems, social thought, introduction to sociology, and urban sociology. Additional proficiencies in teaching some of the following courses are expected: sociology of deviance; methods of social research; power, privilege and inequality; criminology; marriage and family; sociology of religion; gender studies; sociology practicum, senior seminar; Africana studies; and civil rights.
Candidates with a Ph.D. in Sociology with an additional graduate degree in law, criminology, or criminal justice will be advantageous. The ideal candidate will have maintained an active research, publication, and action agenda relevant to key aspects of their teaching expertise. Departmental and broader responsibilities include advising and mentoring undergraduate students, maintaining a focused scholarly agenda, and participating in university-wide service. Rank and salary are commensurate with qualifications and experience.