Job Summary/Basic Function:
The Program in Neuroscience and Education, in the Department of Biobehavioral Sciences at Teachers College, is actively seeking an adjunct instructor to teach one of the following courses.

These courses are both advanced electives in the Neuroscience and Education program and will be offered during the spring semester (15 weeks, January through May). Students undertaking advanced electives are expected to have already completed foundational coursework in neuroscience and to have a basic understanding of neuroscience concepts, methods, and theoretical frameworks.

We anticipate offering one course in spring 2023, and potentially alternating with the other in spring 2024. Applicants may indicate their primary interest in either course, but the ability to teach both courses – and willingness to alternate between them – would be a plus.

• Social and Affective Neuroscience: This course will provide graduate-level instruction on the neural bases of our interactions with the social world – how we engage with it, and how we are affected by it. It should provide consideration of the interactions between emotion, social experiences, and cognition in the brain and nervous system, including the impacts of emotion on human behavior, attention, decision-making, perception, and memory. The course should also include a review of experimental approaches and technologies that are used to study social and affective neuroscience and should provide students with structured opportunities to engage with the current primary research in the field.

• Neuroscience, Ethics, and the Law: This course will introduce students to the emerging fields of Neuroethics and Neurolaw and create a forum for discussion and debate about a range of relevant topics. Such topics might include brain development in adolescence (related to issues of driving laws, school start times, and adolescents being tried as adults in courts of law); the use of neuroimaging as “brain reading” technology (and its applicability in court); the neurobiology of memory and its legal applications; the use of neuropharmacological agents and brain stimulation for cognitive enhancement; the neurobiology of addiction (and implications for the voluntary control of behavior); death, unconsciousness, and the law; or others. The course should support students to evaluate, critique, and interpret scientific evidence as it relates to ethical and legal practice and policy, and enhance their understanding of the impacts of neuroscience on society.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Teaching graduate students (masters level) in the Neuroscience and Education program;
• Developing and managing the class syllabus and ensuring that the syllabus meets department and college standards (per the needs of the department);
• Planning and creating lectures, in-class discussions and assignments; pedagogical innovations, including hybrid or “flipped classroom” models, are welcomed;
• Grading assigned papers, quizzes and exams;
• Assessing grades for students based on participation, performance in class, assignments and examinations;
• Collaborating with colleagues on course and program curriculum;
• Holding weekly office hours for students.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Candidates should have a doctoral degree in neuroscience or a related discipline. ABD considered.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ideal candidates will be enthusiastic about contributing to graduate training and will have active professional lives in research, academia, and/or clinical service related to the courses they would like to teach.
• Students undertaking advanced electives are expected to have already completed foundational coursework in neuroscience and to have a basic understanding of neuroscience concepts, methods, and theoretical frameworks.

We anticipate offering one course in spring 2023, and potentially alternating with the other in spring 2024. Applicants may indicate their primary interest in either course, but the ability to teach both courses – and willingness to alternate between them – would be a plus

Salary Range:

$3,375 - $4,500