Assistant Professor, Video, Motion Graphics, Visual Effects

at  Macewan University

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MacEwan University is where caring faculty help people connect their passions to their future paths. Located in the heart of Edmonton’s diverse and dynamic downtown community, and on the traditional lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and homelands of the Métis people, MacEwan is known for exceptional undergraduate learning. With its dedication to teaching excellence, informed by scholarly research, innovation, and creative activity, MacEwan provides an exceptional collaborative and supportive learning environment with a commitment to human rights, environmental sustainability, and opportunities for community engagement. We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all peoples, cultures, and identities.
Our comprehensive undergraduate university offers 55 programs to more than 19,000 full- and part-time students in business, communications, community and human services, design, fine and performing arts, health, humanities, natural science, nursing, public safety, and social science. Through a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, and strategic relationships in the community, we partner with others to produce graduates of stature. Along with a robust grounding in their chosen disciplines, MacEwan students are given durable life skills that prepare them to take on the world.

• Instruct students in one or more studio courses focused on video, motion graphics, and visual effects;
• Provide learning activities that stimulate student involvement and encourage critical thinking and discussion;
• Provide concrete, constructive, respectful and actionable feedback and mentorship to students;
• Provide students with ways to connect video, motion, visual effects skills and concepts to the wider visual communication design practice;
• Maintain competencies in the subject area and currency in instructional methodologies through professional associations and professional development;
• Maintain an active research and/or creative practice;
• Participate in curriculum development and implementation and provide pedagogical leadership in your area of expertise;
• In consultation with the Design Department, create and maintain a pedagogical vision for one or more of video, motion graphics, and visual effects courses;
• Serve on university-wide, faculty and departmental committees;
• Recommend sessional faculty to teach in one or more of video, motion graphics, and visual effects courses; and
• Foster interdisciplinary approaches and establish ties with other departments including but not limited to Studio Arts, Communications Studies, Arts and Cultural Management, Theatre, and Music