Dunwoody College of Technology is currently seeking Adjunct Instructors in the Architecture Program. Successful candidates will have a high level of technical competency and professional experience relevant to the course, as well as a desire to reinforce the mission and vision of the Program. This position is responsible for initiating the teaching and learning process with a focus on continuous improvement; creating an environment in which students can accomplish the learning competencies with the use of the existing curriculum. The result should be students’ abilities to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, ethics, and use of proper tools to meet professional practice standards.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES/FUNCTIONS
Maintain curriculum within the college’s worldwide instructional design system.
Instill professional principles, skills, and work ethics.
Foster a studio culture in line with the Program’s policies.
Monitor and assess academic progress and performance through college attendance and grading recording systems.
Develop new curriculum within assigned course of instruction.
Facilitate principles, theories, skills, and work ethic necessary to professional practice.
Monitor, assess and advise students on academic progress and performance
Use both academic and professional practice standards in assigned courses of instruction.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Potential Available Courses:
ON CAMPUS CLASSES
Course Name: ARCH1111 Architectural Drawing Course Description: Engage in a breadth of architectural representation and design technologies. Develop skills in architectural communication, professionalism, learning culture, and technological agility. Semester: Fall 2023 on campus Day(s) of the week: Mon/Thur Class Time(s):8:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH2111 Construction Documents Course Description: Create and develop building construction drawings and specifications. Apply building regulations and codes to inform design development. Engage in collaborative building information management. Semester: Fall 2023 on campus Day(s) of the week: Mon/Thur Class Time(s):8:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH3110 City & Site Course Description: Apply the fundamental and experimental approaches to a rigorous design process. Apply design thinking at a city scale, through a non-polemic, iterative, multimedia approach.
Semester: Fall 2023 on campus
Day(s) of the week: Mon/ Thur
Class Time(s): 8:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH4110 Research and Culture Course Description: Apply architectural research to design while engaging a real world client and project. Employ an inclusive and participatory design process through engagement with various community stakeholders. Examine the relationship of architecture to public process and community development. Semester: Fall 2023 – on campus Day(s) of the week: Mon/Thur Class Time(s):8:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH1121 The Site Course Description: Analyze the relationship between a building site and its physical, cultural, and environmental contexts. Develop technical abilities for site design and documentation. Semester: Fall 2023 – on Campus Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed Class Time(s):8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH3130 Early Goldal History Course Description: Research and analyze architecture of the world throughout history. Examine the relationships between culture, geography, politics, race, and the ways in which they shape the built environment. Semester: Fall 2023 – on Campus Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed Class Time(s):8:30a-10:00a
Course Name: ARCH4120 3D Fabrication Course Description: Apply analog and digital 3D fabrication techniques as a design and representation tool. Develop skills utilizing design thinking, ordering systems, and digital fabrication methodologies.
Semester: Fall 2023 – on Campus Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed Class Time(s): 8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH4130 Globalization & the Vernacular Course Description: Identify distinctions between vernacular and formal architecture traditions around the globe. Elaborate on the tensions between the role of architecture in urban and rural landscapes, as well as the distinctions between city and country. Catalog global vs. local processes in the structure of the city and place making. Build vocabulary and make distinctions in terminology such as culture, diversity, equity, modernity, pre-modern, agricultural, rural. Semester: Fall 2023 – on Campus Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed Class Time(s): 8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH5130 Systems & Envelope Course Description: Research and analyze the building envelope and its performative relationship to building systems. Discover ways in which building systems are designed to reinforce architectural thought. Analyze works of architecture with a focus on integrative thinking. Semester: Fall 2023 – on Campus Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed Class Time(s): 8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH5120 Thesis Preparation Course Description: Research and analyze the building envelope and its performative relationship to building systems. Discover ways in which building systems are designed to reinforce architectural thought. Analyze works of architecture with a focus on integrative thinking. Semester: Fall 2023 – on Campus Day(s) of the week: Tues/Wed Class Time(s): 8:30a-10:00a or 10:30a-12:00p
Course Name: ARCH11141 The Profession Course Description: Engage in the profession of architecture and acquire knowledge of architectural licensure, career paths, and forms of practice. Develop proficiency in professional communication and behavior. Semester: Fall 2023 – on Campus Day(s) of the week: Mon Class Time(s): 12:30p-2:30p
Course Name: ARCH3140 Landscape Course Description: Explore how form can integrate with and grow from natural systems, as well as how natural systems can integrate into architectural works through legible, self-evident user interaction with processes and phenomena. Semester: Fall 2023 – on Campus Day(s) of the week: Tue Class Time(s): 12:30p-2:30p
Course Name: ARCH4140 Urbanism Course Description: Research and analyze ideas of urbanism and their relationship to architecture within a design process. Perform comparative analysis of the Twin Cities and other urban centers through a series of case studies. Semester: Fall 2023 – on Campus Day(s) of the week: Tue Class Time(s): 12:30p-2:30p
Course Name: ARCH5140 Entrepreneurship Course Description: Investigate how architectural businesses form, grow, hire, and create sustainable business plans with lasting value. Analyze real world examples of how the profession of architecture fiscally operates in foundation, operation, capital investment, asset building, and liability management. Semester: Fall 2023 – on Campus Day(s) of the week: Tue Class Time(s): 12:30p-2:30p
ONLINE CLASSES:
Course Name: ARCH3110 City & Site
Course Description: Apply the fundamental and experimental approaches to a rigorous design process. Apply design thinking at a city scale, through a non-polemic, iterative, multimedia approach. Semester: Fall 2023 – online synchronous Day(s) of the week: Mon/Thur Class Time(s):5:00p-8:00p CST
Course Name: ARCH5110 Integrative Design Course Description: Integrate site, regulatory, and program elements to create an architectural work. Demonstrate design intent within the design and development of building systems. Demonstrate integrative design through varying forms of architectural representation. Semester: Fall 2023 – online synchronous Day(s) of the week: Mon/Thur Class Time(s):5:00p-8:00p CST
Course Name: ARCH3130 Early Goldal History Course Description: Research and analyze architecture of the world throughout history. Examine the relationships between culture, geography, politics, race, and the ways in which they shape the built environment. Semester: Fall 2023 – online synchronous/asynchronous Day(s) of the week: Tues Class Time(s):5:00p-6:00p
Course Name: ARCH3120 2D Rendering Course Description: Research design thinking through 2D rendering methods. Explain the fundamentals of a design process, iteration, rigor, critical representation, and architectural communication Semester: Fall 2023 – online synchronous/asynchronous Day(s) of the week: Tues Class Time(s):6:00p-7:00p
Course Name: ARCH3140 Landscape Course Description: Explore how form can integrate with and grow from natural systems, as well as how natural systems can integrate into architectural works through legible, self-evident user interaction with processes and phenomena.
Semester: Fall 2023 – online synchronous/asynchronous Day(s) of the week: Tues Class Time(s):7:00p-8:00p
Qualifications:
Candidate must meet one of the following criteria:
Faculty teaching at the associate’s degree level in architecture will have at minimum a bachelor’s degree in architecture and related industry experience.
Faculty teaching at the baccalaureate degree level in architecture will meet one of the following qualifications:
A master’s degree in architecture or related field;
OR A bachelor’s degree in architecture or related field and 18-graduate credits in architecture or related field;
OR A professional bachelor’s degree in architecture and professional licensure Other standards as required by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) for faculty will apply
Special note for any applicant who resides outside of the State of Minnesota:
If you are selected for a role with Dunwoody College of Technology and do not move to Minnesota, your employment will be through Kelly Educational Services.
Founded in 1914, Dunwoody College of Technology is a private, not-for-profit, endowed institution of higher education. It is one of the few institutions of its kind in the nation, and has been a champion of applied education throughout its history. Its mission is to provide students with a high-quality technical education that result in an immediate job and a fulfilling career.Located in the Lowry Hill neighborhood next to downtown Minneapolis, Dunwoody College offers bachelor’s and associate’s degrees in a variety of technical fields. The College maintains strong ties to local business and industry and values a diverse faculty, support staff, and student body and their unique contributions to an inclusive Dunwoody community. As articulated by our founder William Hood Dunwoody, the College's vision is to provide "for all time" a place where people of diverse backgrounds receive learning opportunities that prepare them for "the better performance of life's duties."