Hi everyone
Some teaching opportunities below at UMBC this fall that might be appropriate and a good fit for recent grads or someone with a MS
They are looking for someone with a PhD (preferable). A Masters degree with teaching and professional experience can also work out nicely for these courses.
If you interesetd, e-mail mholland@umbc.edu with your CV. Typically new instructors start at $5k per class.
GES 110: The Changing Earth: Climate, Ecosystems, Water, and Landscapes
M/W: 2:30-3:45pm
or
Tu/Th: 1-2:15pm
*This course would have a TA to help with prep and grading.
This course focuses on the dynamics of the Earth's environment, including pressing concerns such as climate change, natural hazards, pollution, and biodiversity. It addresses processes in the atmosphere, in earth's natural waters, in the solid earth, and in the biosphere. The course's concern is with natural and human processes that affect weather and climate, with the spatial patterns of environmental factors (such as temperature, moisture availability, landforms, soils, and vegetation), with the influence of plate tectonics and geologic structure on physiography of the continents and ocean floors, with the interactions that control these patterns and their evolution, and with current threats to biological diversity and human well-being due to changes in the Earth's climate, oceans, and landscapes.
GES 305: Landscape Ecology
Tu/Th: 11:30am-12:45pm
(This would not have a dedicated TA, but could have an undergraduate grader)
Landscape ecology is an integrative discipline aimed at understanding the causes and consequences of ecological pattern, process and change within and across landscapes at local, regional and global scales. This course introduces the fundamental concepts and tools of landscape ecology and explores their application in basic ecological science, biodiversity conservation, environmental management and landscape planning.
GES 386: Intro to Geographic Information Systems
Tu/Th: 2:30-5:00pm
*This class would have a TA and would be compensated at a slightly higher level ($6k), as a 4-credit course.
An overview of the essential characteristics, development and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students will become familiar with the specialized concepts and methods related to the compilation and manipulation of spatial data, and they will apply those concepts and methods in a laboratory setting.