New York University (NYU) Berlin is seeking a part-time lecturer for a course called "Introduction to Interdisciplinary Art Practice." The course is offered by NYU Berlin in conjunction with the NYU Steinhardt?s department of Studio Art.
The course is taught in English and runs approximately from May 19 to July 1, 2025. The course meets for 3 hours twice a week at NYU Berlin?s campus at the St. Agnes arts studio. The sessions are a mixture of lecture, discussions, practical exercises, and guest visits and excursions.
Course Description:
"Introduction to Interdisciplinary Art Practice" is a dynamic course designed to encourage experimentation across diverse media and practices. Through discussions, hands-on workshops, and guided visits to contemporary art exhibitions, students will explore the intersections of visual art, performance, and new media. The course provides a platform for developing and expanding individual artistic voices while fostering a collaborative environment for cross-disciplinary exchange. In addition to weekly critiques of student work, the class includes engagement with readings, artist talks, and field trips to galleries and museums. Students will also gain insight into various interdisciplinary strategies, examining how different art forms can inform and challenge one another.
About New York University (NYU) and NYU Berlin
NYU Berlin offers you:
An inspiring and rewarding teaching position in an innovative university setting with opportunities to co-design and co-shape our processes. You would join a diverse, engaged and welcoming team.
Opportunities for personal and professional development, including access to NYU's Global Faculty Fund, participation in NYU Berlin's IDBEA (Identity, Diversity, Belonging, Equity, Accessibility) Council, as well as training in topics such as, for example, anti-racist teaching and syllabus design.
About New York University
Founded in 1831, New York University is one of the largest and most prestigious private universities in the United States. NYU is based in New York but also operates branch campuses and research programs in other parts of the U.S. and around the world. NYU Berlin is one of NYU?s global study-away sites and provides NYU students with the opportunity to spend a semester studying in Berlin. The program is fully integrated into NYU?s curriculum and designed for BA students in the social sciences, arts and humanities who want to earn credit in their major ? including art, art history, drama, environmental studies, European studies, German, history, music, politics, psychology, and sociology ? while having a transformative experience abroad. Seminars and lectures take place at the academic center located within the complex of the Kulturbrauerei in Prenzlauer Berg and at NYU Berlin?s art and drama studio in Kreuzberg. The program size is 120 students in Fall and Spring semesters, as well as various January Term and Summer Schools.
NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the U.S. and carbon-neutral by 2040. Learn more at nyu.edu/nyugreen .
We are seeking candidates with an interdisciplinary art practice, robust professional experience, and 3+ years of teaching courses at the undergraduate level in a degree-granting program. Terminal degree (Doctorate, JD, MFA, MPS, MBA) would be a plus factor for qualified candidates. Experience teaching American undergraduates is helpful.
Ideal candidates should be excellent teachers and accomplished professional artists in their own right, who can demonstrate an ability to connect theory and practice with young artists with a varying degree of experience with course themes, and encourage student-led inquiry in the classroom.
Additional Qualifications:
Terms and conditions will be discussed with the successful applicant.
All applications must be made online through Interfolio at apply.interfolio.com/162731 . The deadline is 21 February . In your cover letter, please address your approach to teaching and learning, how your particular specialization may influence the teaching of the course, what you believe to be the most important learning outcomes from the course for the students, and what particular strategies you use to empower your students to thrive. Please also include a list of proposed site visits and which materials you would select for the students to use to create their works. Please also upload either a list of at least two referees under ?Contact Reference? or upload two finished letters of recommendation under ?Non-Confidential Letter of Recommendation or Evaluation.? If available, please submit past syllabi/workshop programs that illustrate your teaching philosophy.
NYU is committed to providing a campus community that reflects and enacts the values of inclusion, diversity, belonging, and equity that inform academic excellence. NYU Berlin is an equal opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity, and social inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from all interested persons including without limitation under-represented individuals in the profession, across religions, color, creed, race, ethnic and national origin, physical ability, and gender and sexual identity. NYU Berlin affirms the value of differing perspectives on the world as we strive to build the strongest possible university with the widest reach.
Applications will be reviewed jointly by NYU Berlin and NYU New York. Interviews of short-listed candidates will be held online or in person at NYU Berlin and with faculty from NYU New York.
Please direct any inquiries to berlin.academics@nyu.edu.
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About New York University
Founded in 1831, New York University is now one of the largest private universities in the United States. Of the more than 3,000 colleges and universities in America, New York University is one of only 60 member institutions of the distinguished Association of American Universities.
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