Job Description

How to Apply

Applicants must apply and submit material through https://careers.umich.edu/. Please, include the following in a single PDF document:
1)    A cover letter addressing interest and qualifications for the course(s) and the hours of availability for discussion sections as listed here.
2)    A resume or curriculum vita
3)    Unofficial graduate and undergraduate transcripts of relevant course work 
4)    Previous UM teaching evaluations or teaching history, as applicable
 

Job Summary

The Linguistics Department is looking to hire up to 2 GSIs in the Winter 2025 term to lead discussion sections of the following class:
LING 111: Lenses into Language: Mind, Society, Justice, 3 section (anticipated enrollment: 75 students)
 

Course Description

How does language matter to you? What does your language allow you to do, and what does it prevent you from doing? This course will introduce the surprising structure behind language, a facet of our lives we usually take for granted. We will discover how hidden mental rules manipulate the building blocks of language from the smallest gesture or sound to the most complex conversation. And we will illuminate how our language connects us to society at large, from the careers we choose, to the communities we create, to the way we are perceived in daily life. Our studies will be shaped by viewing language through three critical lenses:

The Mind Creates Language
Linguistics is a cognitive science, studying how the brain produces and understands language. Linguists employ standard scientific methods to analyze the rules and structures underlying this unique human ability.
Language Shapes Society
Language is present in every aspect of life. Among its many purposes, it is a social tool, with the power to comfort, deceive, demean, persuade, and uplift. The language we use everyday has the power to establish or reflect connections with others and act as a component of our identity.
All Language is Good Language
Everyone signs or speaks a complete, expressive, and complex language. Throughout our schooling and our social lives, we are often taught that some language is good or correct and the rest is not. From a linguistic perspective, though, the many varieties of both signed and spoken language found in the world - not to mention this classroom - are equally valid.

 

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Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Contact Information

Decision Making Process

The Linguistics Department Graduate team will make decisions about teaching assignments with the approval of the course instructor.

Selection Process

Applications are reviewed, and decisions made, based on each applicants knowledge, experience, and past teaching record. Preferential consideration will be given to applicants with relevant academic preparation for teaching the course material.

GEO Contract Information

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