CIS Adjunct Faculty, UG - COR3001 Big Questions (Wealth and Poverty), AY2026-2027 Term 2

The College of Integrative Studies (CIS) at Singapore Management University (SMU) invites applications for part-time instructors with a track record in excellent teaching at the tertiary level to teach Big Questions\: Wealth and Poverty. The course explores the manifold forms of wealth and poverty that mark the human experience. Through critical engagement with various disciplinary perspectives and lived contexts, it considers the ways that wealth and poverty intertwine in theory and practice. It will analyse how notions of wealth and poverty are embedded in the construction of our identity–and in our axiomatic mental models of power, progress, inequality, and so forth.

Big Questions is part of the Core Curriculum and is a mandatory course for all freshmen. It aims to introduce students to disciplinary, multidisciplinary, and integrative learning across a pre-assigned course programme. However, instructors are encouraged to teach around the broad course programme and theme, according to their own discipline-specific knowledge and interests.

For more information on the Core Curriculum’s Big Questions, see\: https\://cis.smu.edu.sg/core-curriculum/big-questions

Singapore Management University is a research university committed to an interdisciplinary and integrated curriculum. Undergraduate classes are capped at 48 students.

Interested applicants should apply online, providing a cover letter; CV; evidence of previous teaching feedback and two references.