CIS Adjunct Faculty, UG - COR3001 Big Questions (Happiness and Suffering), AY2023-2024 Term 2

The College of Integrative Studies (CIS) at Singapore Management University (SMU) invites applications for part-time instructors with a track record in excellent teaching at the tertiary level to teach Big Questions: Happiness and Suffering. The course encourages critical engagement with a variety of disciplinary standpoints and empirical contexts, and in doing so seeks to interrogate the intertwining of “happiness” and “suffering” as two constructs that define how we live our lives. Specifically, the course explores the values we might attach to each, and how these values might contribute to the construction of identity, alongside ideas concerning inequality, power, justice, progress, and more.

Big Questions is part of the Core Curriculum and is a mandatory course for all freshmen. It aims to introduce students to disciplinary, multidisciplinary, and integrative learning across a pre-assigned course programme. However, instructors are encouraged to teach around the broad course programme and theme, according to their own discipline-specific knowledge and interests. For more information on the Core Curriculum’s Big Questions, see: https://corecurriculum.smu.edu.sg/core-curriculum/civilisations/big-questions

Singapore Management University is a research university committed to an interdisciplinary and integrated curriculum. Undergraduate classes are capped at 45 students.

Interested applicants should apply online.

The positions are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences, including, but not exclusive to, the fields of anthropology, geography, history, literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology. The successful candidate would be employed under a contract of service (Adjunct) appointment on a term basis.  Candidates must have a doctorate in a relevant discipline by the date of appointment and, a strong track record in teaching and scholarly research.