Instructor for Northwestern Mini Courses

Northwestern University’s Norris Center is looking for enthusiastic on-site instructors to offer courses or workshops in the following areas:

• Cooking and food preparation techniques
• Phone photography or phone video editing
• Dance (ballroom, hiphop, jazz, or other forms)
• Digital proficiency (how to build a website, AI tools, or other areas)
• Illustration for books or magazines

The Norris Mini Courses program offers a wide variety of non-credit, recreational, classes for adults four times a year, beginning in October, January, April, and July. Most classes take place once a week in the evening. Most Mini Courses are held inside the Norris University Center, located on Northwestern University’s beautiful Evanston campus.

A Mini Courses Instructor usually teaches a 1.5 - 2 hour class once a week for six weeks. Mini Courses instructors have the unique opportunity to interact with students from all over the Chicagoland area and share their talents. Instructors develop their own curriculum and are supported by the Mini Courses Staff. Mini Courses Staff handle all administrative matters.

We are only accepting instructors that can teach in person, once a week for 6 weeks, any day between Monday - Thursday, 5:30 pm- 9:00 pm.

All our starting instructors receive $330 for a 6 - week course.

Please take a look at our current course and workshop offerings to familiarize yourself with our approach: https://www.northwestern.edu/norris/programs-and-recreation/mini-courses/current-mini-courses-fall.html.

Instructor qualifications:

• Proven expertise and proficiency in the area of instruction
• Minimum one year of teaching adult learners

To apply:

Please submit your C.V as well as a course or workshop proposal that indicates the class description, objectives, materials needed, and a brief outline of each week’s topic. Include an instructor biography in your proposal. Please also use this form to submit a course or workshop proposal: https://forms.gle/Ym7xkjZvyvpeWWy37.

About Mini Courses:

Norris Mini Courses is a leisure-learning program for adults established in 1973, at Northwestern University. The program offers a wide variety of non-credit, recreational, classes for adults. Classes are focused yet take place in a relaxed, informal environment. Most classes take place weekly in the evening to provide an escape from the daily academic or work routine. Mini Courses offers multi-week courses, which take place over 4-6 weeks, and workshops, which meet once or twice per academic quarter. We run for four sessions over the course of the year: Fall (September - November), Winter (January - March), Spring (April - June), and Summer (July - August). Mini Courses are open to Northwestern students and staff with a modest subsidy, and to members of the wider community unaffiliated with Northwestern.

Pay: From $30.00 per hour

Work Location: In person