Are you passionate about teaching, interested in the relation between media, journalists and citizens, and looking for a challenging job in a dynamic setting? Due to the world-wide popularity of our teaching program, the Department of Communication Science is looking for several lecturers (teaching-only) in Political Communication & Journalism for all aspects of our program, including methods courses.
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Political Communication & Journalism group is one of the four program groups in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. The group focuses on changes in journalism and on how citizens, organizations, and institutions use media and communication to become informed about public affairs and to participate in them. Courses we teach in the Master's are the specialization seminars "Citizens and public opinion" and "Journalism and the media", and electives like "Investigate journalism", "Political marketing", "Psychology in political communication", and "The misinformation crisis?". In the Bachelor, we teach the domain module "Political communication and Journalism", elective courses such as "The role of emotions in political communication" and "Political marketing, campaigns and voters", and graduation projects in which students write their Bachelor thesis. PolCom colleagues also contribute to general communication science courses, for example via our "Introduction to Communication Science" course or by contribution to our methods education, which includes experiments, surveys, manual or automated content analysis, general statistics courses like statistical modelling, and qualitative methods. More information on these courses can be found
here. Most of our courses are organized in tutorials or seminars of approximately 25 students, and are taught by a team of lecturers.
With more than 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students,
Communication Science is among the largest departments at the University of Amsterdam with an outstanding international reputation. The College of Communication and the Graduate School of Communication offer a Bachelor and Master program, a European joint degree program in Journalism and a Research Master, the only of its kind in the Netherlands. The teaching in our Communication Science program is interdisciplinary and internationally oriented, offering tracks taught in both English and Dutch. If you find this appealing, this may be the position for you.
What are you going to doYou:
- teach modules in the standing program of the Bachelor and Master of Communication Science in Dutch and/or English with a focus on Political Communication & Journalism. The Master program is taught in English only. The Bachelor program has both a Dutch and an English track;
- supervise and evaluate Bachelor theses, Master theses and internships;
- teach statistical/ methodological courses, in College and/or Graduate School;
- provide/organize teaching in (introductory) communication science courses.