Adjunct Teaching – Experience Design and Management – EXDM 418: Designing for Inclusion and Belonging
About The Position
This position involves teaching up to 3 sections of a 3-credit-hour core course, EXDM 418 – Designing for Inclusion and Belonging. The role includes delivery, management, preparation/collaboration, and co-teaching with Full-time Faculty. The course focuses on the Savior’s model of ministering to the one to help students explore inclusive design principles through a global and gospel-centered lens. Students will learn to see, hear, and connect with others, and gain tools to create inclusive, accessible, equitable, and empowering environments, systems, and experiences for all backgrounds and abilities. The course also examines the power of diversity, the impact of unconscious bias, and the systemic roots of inequity across cultures and contexts. Through case studies, reflective exercises, gospel study, and transformative experiential learning, students will challenge their worldviews, question assumptions, and develop empathy-driven, Christ-centered inclusion, belonging, and design approaches. The aim is to help students experience engaging with diverse perspectives, fostering human- and heaven-centered solutions, and becoming Christlike leaders who use intentional experiences to lift, design, and transform the world so all can feel they belong.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or graduate degree in business and/or an experience-related field (required by start date).
- At least 3 years of experience in the Inclusion & Belonging space.
- Must relocate and/or reside in Utah for the duration of employment.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s or PhD preferred.
- Previous university-level teaching experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Teach up to 3 sections of EXDM 418 – Designing for Inclusion and Belonging.
- Manage course delivery, preparation, and collaboration.
- Co-teach with Full-time Faculty teaching other sections of the course.
- Help students explore core principles of inclusive design through a global and gospel-centered lens.
- Equip students with the ability to see, hear, and connect with others.
- Provide students with tools to create inclusive, accessible, equitable, and empowering environments, systems, and experiences.
- Help students examine the power of diversity, the impact of unconscious bias, and the systemic roots of inequity.
- Use case studies, reflective exercises, gospel study, and experiential learning to help students challenge their worldview and develop empathy-driven, Christ-centered inclusion and design approaches.
- Help students experience engaging with perspectives different from their own to foster human- and heaven-centered solutions.
- Guide students to become Christlike leaders who use intentional experiences to help lift, design, and transform the world.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
