Adjunct Teaching - SFL 223 Preparation for Marriage

Job Description

Job Title: Adjunct Teaching - SFL 223 Preparation for Marriage (CE-IS University)

Posting Close Date: Monday, March 3 2025 at 12:00am (MST)

*NOTE: Last day to apply is Sunday, March 2, 2025

Position Start Date: Monday, March 17, 2025

Required Degree: Maters or PhD in Human Development, Family Studies, or related field.

The required degree must be completed by the start date.

Experience: Teaching experience at the university level in Human Development, Family Studies, Marriage and Family Therapy, or writing is preferred.

Duties/Expectations: Successful applicant will help teach a 3-credit Independent Study class to undergraduate students. This class is SFL 223, Preparation for Marriage. The course includes factors related to quality relationships, mate selection, and the transition into marriage.

By the end of the course, students in this class should be able to:

• Understand the Lord's "divine design" (Proc. para 7) for marriage relationships (e.g., the nature of the marriage covenant, equal partnership, stewardships of husbands & wives, etc).
• Increase awareness of marriage as a social institution.
• Become sensitized to the modern threats to marriage.
• Increase understanding of the LDS doctrines of marriage, including prophetic counsel on dating, courtship, intimacy, weddings, finances, divorce, and other aspects of the marital stewardship.
• Increase awareness of the factors that social science research has shown to contribute to the formation and maintenance of healthy and stable marriages.
• Enhance spiritual awareness and academic skills in order to help them weigh scholarly and contemporary ideas about marriage relationships and use both faith and scholarship.
• Critically explicate your awareness of marriage as a social institution. Identify and be sensitive to modern cultural threats to marriage.
• Be able to grasp and understand the LDS doctrines of marriage, including prophetic counsel on dating, courtship, intimacy, weddings, finances, divorce, and other aspects of the marital stewardship.
• Increase your awareness of the factors that social science research has shown to contribute to the formation and maintenance of healthy and stable marriages.
• Enhance your spiritual awareness and academic skills in order to help you critically weigh scholarly and contemporary ideas about marriage relationships and use both faith and scholarship to "hold fast to that which is good" (1Thess. 5:21).

The successful applicant should have the following skills:

• Responsive to students
• Grading with substantive feedback within 7 days
• Comfortable with technology
• Imaginative about using online formats in new ways
• Passionate about connecting with students
• Organized and careful about time management
• Devoted to learning
• Attentive to details
• Excellent at oral and written communication
• Able to teach in different modalities

This position requires the successful candidate to relocate and/or reside in Utah for the duration of their employment.

Posting End Date

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints must hold and be worthy of hold a current temple recommend.