Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
Posted Sep 22, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Your load would be seven courses a year, including introductory American Politics. How do you keep intro sections engaging when you teach them often?
What they are checking: Whether they can sustain quality teaching under a heavy load, not just in their favorite upper-level course.
Tell me about your research and how you'd keep it moving during a one-year visiting appointment.
What they are checking: Whether they have a realistic plan to balance a full teaching load with continued scholarship.
The application asks for a statement on how you'd contribute to the college. What do you think a Catholic, Norbertine liberal arts setting asks of you as a teacher?
What they are checking: Whether they have thought about the college's mission and how their teaching fits within it.
This is an on-site role. How would you be present for students outside class time?
What they are checking: Whether they will be accessible and engaged with students, which small colleges value highly.
What would you do
How do you structure a Civil Liberties course so students with very different political views feel able to argue their positions?
What they are checking: Whether they can teach charged material fairly while holding students to evidence and legal reasoning.
The position includes pre-law advisement. What would you tell a sophomore who says they want to go to law school?
What they are checking: Whether they can give practical, honest guidance on coursework, the LSAT and whether law school fits.
How do you teach about the courts during a time when public trust in them is contested?
What they are checking: Whether they can address current events analytically without turning the classroom into advocacy.
About the work
How would you teach Constitutional Law to undergraduates who have never read a Supreme Court opinion?
What they are checking: Whether they can make case reading accessible to beginners, which is central to a public law appointment.
Which upper-level courses could you teach in parties, elections, Congress or the presidency?
What they are checking: Whether they bring the extra coverage the posting calls a plus for this small discipline.
Walk me through a writing assignment you use in Courts or Constitutional Law, and what it teaches.
What they are checking: Whether their assignments build legal reasoning and writing, the skills pre-law students need most.
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