The Landscape Architecture (LA) Department in the College of Architecture & Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is seeking applicants for a full-time lecturer position beginning September 11, 2025. The position requires a commitment for one academic year of full-time teaching. Salary and teaching assignments will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Anticipated hiring range: $75,000 – $82,000 per year
The Department seeks candidates who share our commitment to teaching excellence within a comprehensive landscape architecture curriculum and who are grounded in professional experience.
Required Qualifications:
1. A master’s or doctoral degree in landscape architecture or a related and complementary field. Where the master’s or doctoral degree is in a related or complementary field, the candidate shall have an undergraduate or master’s degree in landscape architecture and shall have evidence of experience in landscape architecture practice and/or teaching.
2. Evidence of potential for excellence in university-level teaching.
3. Evidence of potential for ongoing professional development that will keep the faculty member current with the profession of landscape architecture.
4. Demonstrable commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. 3 years or more of professional experience relevant to the teaching areas for which the candidate is applying.
2. Landscape Architecture license or demonstrated progress in the licensure process.
Primary responsibilities will be to teach in one or more of the following core subject areas:
- Lower division design fundamental studios and upper division topic studios.
- Landscape ecology lecture and/or activity courses.
- Introductory graphics (hand drawing and drafting), digital graphics (2D and 3D), GIS and/or AutoCAD.
- Site engineering, construction documentation, and/or implementation strategies for introductory and/or upper division courses.
- Landscape architecture history.
- Cultural landscapes lecture and/or activity courses.
A full-time teaching assignment may include design studios, activity courses, and/or lecture courses, including large lecture format, for beginning and/or upper division courses.
The department is especially interested in candidates committed to the support and success of first-generation and underrepresented students. Candidates with expertise in the areas of social justice design, sustainability, resilient design and green infrastructure are encouraged to apply.
https://jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/544198/fulltime-lecturer-landscape-architecture
To apply for this job email your details to rack@calpoly.edu
