Adjunct, Digital Media - Game Design and Production
About The Position
The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design is the creative heart of Drexel University, training the next generation of scholars, thinkers, makers, and doers in media, entertainment, design, and the visual and performing arts. Westphal offers 18 undergraduate and nine graduate majors in award-winning facilities that encourage collaboration across creative disciplines. The college reimagines the role of design, media, and the arts in building a better future, challenging students to center sustainability, access, and equity in their approaches to art, fashion, architecture, gaming, entertainment, and scholarship. Through experiential learning, studio-based curriculum, and Drexel’s Cooperative Education program, students are uniquely positioned to face the world’s challenges and define the creative careers of the 21st century. Drexel's Game Design & Production major, nationally ranked as a top program, provides students with a strong, broad-based foundation in digital design and content creation skills in a team project environment. The major supports careers in any industry that wants to speak the language of real-time interactive games, including entertainment, simulation, training, marketing, communications, and education. Students explore various roles in game development, from idea to reality, in art and code, discovering their areas of focus. The program aims for students to develop a T-shaped skillset: broad familiarity in multiple areas with one or two areas of specialty. Students begin creating game assets and games in their first terms and continue with team-based game projects throughout their studies. Courses evolve in response to industry trends, and on-demand special topic courses are utilized to respond to student and industry developments. The program emphasizes gaining familiarity with industry-standard tools and the ability to transfer skills between different tools of the same type, encouraging students to become comfortable as tool-agnostic creators.
Requirements
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Game Design, Development, Art, Programming or related field.
- Minimum of 3 years of teaching and/or professional experience.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree in related field.
- 3 years professional game development experience with one or more published titles.
- Proven record of over 3 years of teaching and/or mentorship experience.
Responsibilities
- Employ a variety of strategies to foster student artistic development, learning and discussions.
- Encourage active learning in all students.
- Maintain proper course-related records.
- Evaluate student work and provide students with feedback as to the progress toward meeting the objectives of the course.
- Effectively teach students in the assigned classroom or remote settings.
- Effectively implement the mission of the Game Design & Production program, part of the Department of Digital Media.
- Teach required number of credit hours per quarter based on their contract.
- Teach studio, lecture, and/or practicum courses per their contract.
- Teach in the format and schedule as assigned.
- Teach specific technical and/or theory topics in game development and production.
- Plan and provide instructional experiences that reflect an understanding of the philosophy, objectives, and curriculum of the program.
- Evaluate student achievement of curricular objectives/outcomes.
- Maintain communication with the program director regarding any course or student issues.
- Utilize existing University systems for course and student data and communication management.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
