[ecrea] Media Law & Policy position at Cal State San Marcos

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION


TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSTION IN

Media Law and Policy


POSITION: Assistant Professor


EFFECTIVE DATE: August, 2017


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in Media Studies or Communication in hand by

August, 2017. Candidates in interdisciplinary fields with extensive 
communication and/or media

academic training teaching or scholarship will also be considered. A 
scholar with demonstrated

capacity to launch and sustain a research program of quality in U.S. 
Media/Telecom policy

studies from a communication and media studies perspective. Applicants 
must possess

demonstrated teaching effectiveness at the undergraduate level.


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: The successful candidate will have research 
and teaching

expertise in Media Law and/or Policy in order to broaden students’ 
understanding of the

transformative power of communication and media, and their role in 
shaping how we think about

and act in personal, organizational, cultural, social and political 
life. Candidate has experience

teaching Media Law and Policy courses, and the ability to develop and 
teach course offerings on

the evolution of the U.S. media and telecommunication policy in the 20th 
and 21st centuries.

Areas of preferred emphasis include intellectual property/copyright, net 
neutrality, sovereignty,

privacy, and/or surveillance. Demonstrated intercultural commitment and 
experience with

diverse groups in teaching, research and/or service is preferred.


DUTIES: The successful candidate will:

• Develop innovative coursework in his/her area of expertise of media 
and telecomm law and

policy.

• Regularly teach the core course Mass Media 303 (Mass Media 
Technology), deliver other core

courses (such as MASS 301 Media Theory, and/or COMM 100, COMM 360, or COMM

390) and related elective curriculum (such as MASS 452 Media Ethics), as 
needed.

• Develop and sustain a research program that will lead to peer-reviewed 
publications and/or

external grants;

• Engage in department, college, university, and discipline and/or 
community service.

• Must be able to communicate effectively and work cooperatively with 
departmental colleagues

to support the Department’s mission.


APPLICATION: Review of applications will commence December 1, 2016. 
Applications must

include: Faculty application; cover letter; a one-page explanation in 
which applicants address

their demonstrated intercultural experience and commitment to diversity 
and equity in teaching,

research and/or service; curriculum vitae; statements of teaching 
philosophy and research

interests that address both the minimum and preferred qualifications; a 
maximum of two reprints

of representative scholarly activities; copies of all transcripts that 
include relevant course work;

and two representative samples of teaching evaluations that speak to the 
applicant’s

qualifications and abilities. In addition, three current letters of 
recommendation must be provided

by the deadline. To submit please email your materials to 
(Comm-Mass1617 /at/ csusm.edu) <mailto:(Comm-Mass1617 /at/ csusm.edu)>.

Requests for information should be addressed to: Dr. Joonseong Lee, 
Media Law and Policy

Search Committee Chair, Department of Communication, Email: 
(jlee /at/ csusm.edu) <mailto:(jlee /at/ csusm.edu)>


The department consists of 11 tenure track faculty and sixteen lecturers 
who offer two

undergraduate degree programs (i.e., one in Communication and another in 
Mass Media), and

two minors (i.e., Communication and Critical Intercultural 
Communication) to over 800

students, in addition to many sections of Oral Communication (GEO 102) 
that serve the

university. The Mass Media curriculum provides students with strong 
theoretically-focused and

application-based frameworks to understand media, media technology, and 
its influence upon

domestic and global culture and society. We offer courses in media 
theory, history of media

technology, media criticism, and global media courses, and we seek a 
colleague whose research

and teaching interests and expertise are in the historical and 
contemporary dimensions of media

and telecommunications policy in U.S.. The new faculty will contribute 
to the program integrity

and distinctiveness of the BA in Mass Media by building policy-oriented 
curriculum specific to

Media Studies, while also contributing to the depth of students’ 
exposure to the variety of issues

and processes shaping this important dimension of media today in the 
Communication

Department. For more information about the Department of Communication, 
visit

http://www.csusm.edu/communication/ <http://www.csusm.edu/communication/>


The University is particularly interested in applicants who have 
experience working with

students from diverse backgrounds and a demonstrated commitment to 
improving access to

higher education for under-represented groups.


This position is subject to employment verification, education 
verification, reference checks and

criminal record checks. A background check (including the criminal 
records check) must be

completed satisfactorily before any candidate can be offered a position 
with the CSU. Failure to

satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application 
status of applicants or

continued employment of current CSU employees who apply for the position.


CSUSM has been designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an 
Asian American

Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) and was 
recently named one

of the top 32 Colleges most friendly to junior faculty by the 
Collaborative on Academic Careers

in Higher Education. Visit http://www.csusm.edu/facultyopportunities 
<http://www.csusm.edu/facultyopportunities> for more information.

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