Develop and teach a First-Year Seminar course focused on global citizenship, incorporating disciplinary lenses and experiential learning. Responsibilities include designing a syllabus, leading field-based excursions, and coordinating community service hours for students.
Requirements summary
A Master's degree is required, with a preference for disciplines in education, psychology, or counseling. Candidates must have prior teaching experience, specifically as a Lecturer, and the ability to support first-year student success.
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St.
John’s University offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate programs in its six colleges and schools, with a growing number of programs offered online.
The University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and 12 other major academic and professional associations.
Commitment to Inclusion
As a Catholic and Vincentian university, St. John’s is committed to institutionalizing practices of inclusive excellence to ensure that we welcome and celebrate the intrinsic worth of all members of our community. We will become an even stronger university as we enhance equity at every level of our institution. Our graduates will excel in the competencies and values required for leadership and service in a rapidly evolving world.
Division/Department Information
The Global Citizen: A First Year Seminar:
The First-Year Seminar (FYS) focuses on the concept of global citizenship, asking students to examine living in a world marked by globalized forms of economic, political, cultural, and social interconnections. Faculty members develop courses around the application of their own academic disciplines to the topic, employing these disciplines as conceptual lenses to address the topic of the global citizen.
The FYS is intended to accomplish the following goals
1. Help students understand the specific disciplinary approach by guiding the course. 2. Develop student information literacy and research skills. 3. Encourage analytical, empathetic, and creative thinking among students. 4. Instill an understanding of the Vincentian mission of St. John’s University.
As you fashion your FYS class, keep these course goals in mind as they will be important to the class assessment process.
Each version of the course addresses certain common questions such as
How do individuals and communities learn/enact/practice/contest conceptions of citizenship in a global and pluralistic society?
How do different forms of religion, philosophy, culture, and/or politics create obligations and responsibilities for citizens as they attempt to develop just societies?
How do societal organization patterns affect everyday life, local politics, and conceptions of citizenship across time and space?
How do we build communities of solidarity and inclusion when individuals live in culturally, politically, and religiously different societies?
The FYS and Experiential Education
The FYS emphasizes critical thinking, information literacy, and the development of writing skills. The course is designed to engage students in project-based and experiential learning including individual and group work in class and in the field. Students participate in three faculty-led Field-Based Learning Excursions (FBL’s) related to the class theme and designed to enhance the academic experience through on-site learning. Academic Service Learning is also an essential component of the course, bringing attention to the needs of other citizens in multiple contexts while making the Vincentian Mission a shared lived experience.
Implicit in the course is attention to the development and acculturation of students into the life of the university. In the FYS, this translates into acquainting students with relevant university support services.
Responsibilities: The Candidate is required to prepare a syllabus and course outline with the following:
1. Class theme
provide a brief description of the class theme that relates to your disciplinary approach to the topic of Global Citizen. (About 100 words describing your proposed class to students). 2.
Class outline: provide the units of instruction including a tentative reading list for each unit of your proposed class. (FYS’s meet 13 times each semester; please indicate in your outline how many individual classes you would assign to each unit of instruction). 3.
Class written assignments: Include examples of the written assignments you will use in the class. (FYS students should have 15-20 pages of written assignments throughout the semester). 4.
Field-Based
Learning
Excursions (FBL’s): Identify the three FBL’s that you will include in your class and provide a brief description of how each FBL relates to the class theme. 5. Work with the CEL office to ensure students complete the required 4-6 hours of community service which is included in the St. John’s Mission Statement to provide for those less fortunate and in need of assistance.
Qualifications
Master’s Degree is required, with teaching experience or more, with educational, psychological, and counseling based disciplines preferred, to engage first year students in critical thinking, communicating and writing.
A strong academic background that is relevant to undergraduate coursework or enrollment, structured training, and supervision. The goal is to ensure instructors are both academically qualified and prepared to support student success in a seminar format.
Faculty rank: has taught or teaching appointments as a Lecturer.
Must be able to work with other instructors running other sections.
Required to hold a weekly office hour (at least one ½ hour per credit hour taught).
Application Process
Complete New Hire Package:
Employment Application: in its entirety (fill out all information, do not indicate on the application “see CV/Resume”) Outline the necessary materials all applicants are required to submit
Wage Theft Prevention Act
Emergency Contact
Direct Deposit
Tax Forms (W4, IT2104 and IT2104-1
Employee Eligibility I9: must be completed in person
Confidentiality Agreement
*All paperwork must be completed in its entirety
Comprehensive Sterling Background Check
All documents and cleared Background Check must be finalized by July 31, 2026
Any question about the position, contact Marilyn Dono-Koulouris, Associate Professor,
Department of
Core
Studies, and
Director of
First
Year
Seminar at email: donokoum@stjohns.edu [donokoum@stjohns.edu].
In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the semester/per credit salary range for this position is $1750.00 St. John’s University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer.
St.
John’s University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
I understand that any offer of employment is subject to receipt by St.
John’s University of satisfactory references, verification of employment and education
