Lecturer in Spanish

Cornell College, a private undergraduate liberal arts college located in Mount Vernon, Iowa, is seeking a part-time Lecturer in Spanish beginning February 2025.

Teaching responsibilities will include teaching (1) section of Spanish 101 and (2) sections of Spanish 102.

  Applicants may be considered for multiple courses, or all three courses.  These courses are the first and second courses of a three-course sequence of Spanish language learning, which provides students with an introduction to speaking, reading, writing, and listening comprehension in Spanish.  Master's or PhD required.

Spanish or related degree preferred; native speaker or near-native speaker with a degree in a field such as literature or education considered

Because Cornell College values diversity and strives to create a welcoming community in which all individuals are respected and included, the entire campus community engages in dialogue around issues of difference, identity, and ideology.

The college is committed to fostering a faculty and staff community that reflects our diverse student body.

We encourage applications from candidates who share our vision for a campus that embraces differing backgrounds, viewpoints, and identities, and who will excel at teaching and mentoring a student body that is broadly diverse.  (See our diversity statement.)

Cornell utilizes a block schedule for its courses, so instructors teach and students take a single course full time during each of eight, four-week sessions.  The blocks would include block 6 (February 10-March 5), block 7 (March 17-April 9), and block 8 (April 14-May 7) in the spring.  

The college encourages interdisciplinary interests among its faculty and the development of teaching strategies that capitalize on our unique academic calendar, which allows us the freedom to structure course time within each block according to the needs of the class without impinging on other course commitments.

In addition, classes are limited to 25 students, with upper-level classes often smaller, and are supported by professional and Spanish-proficient peer consultants in the Writing Studio.

About Cornell College

Cornell College is a national liberal arts college committed to excellence in teaching and the creation of a welcoming community in which all individuals are respected and included.

Our innovative curriculum includes a focus on the essential abilities of writing, quantitative reasoning, and intercultural literacy as well as experiential learning.

Cornell’s One Course At A Time (OCAAT) approach fosters strong student engagement and close faculty-student relationships while allowing faculty freedom to design and carry out their classes, on campus or off.

Founded in 1853, Cornell’s distinctive campus community reflects our ongoing pursuit of our core values and continuing tradition of shared governance.  Always a coeducational institution, we were the first college west of the Mississippi to graduate both men and women...