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**Department/Organization** 200024 - UA Legend Courses * * * **Rank** Instructor * * * **Position Summary** UA 211 is a skills-focused course designed for students in their second year at UA (or beyond) who did not complete the Legends requirement in their first year. * * * **Detailed Position Information** UA 211 is a skills-focused course designed for students in their second year at UA (or beyond) who did not complete the Legends requirement in their first year. The course provides students an opportunity to complete the Legends requirement while continuing to build the habits, strategies, and confidence needed for academic success and degree completion at the University of Alabama. The course emphasizes academic self-efficacy, personal goal setting, effective study and learning strategies, critical thinking, quantitative reasoning in everyday contexts, and connection to the academic community. Students will reflect on prior academic experiences, identify strengths and challenges, and practice evidence-based approaches to learning and self-management. Through guided activities, peer interaction, and structured reflection, students will strengthen their ability to navigate university expectations, engage productively with coursework, and build a sense of belonging and purpose within the academic community. This course enables students who did not complete their first-year Legends requirement to reconnect to academic community, rebuild consistent routines, and develop the skills, self-compassion, and academic buoyancy needed to sustain their path to a degree. This course satisfies the Legends requirement for students who did not pass or never enrolled in Legends during their first year at UA. * * * **Minimum Qualifications** Master's Degree * * * **Preferred Qualifications** PhD * * * **Instructions and Required Materials for Application** CV, cover letter, teaching philosophy, teaching evaluations. * * * **About the Division/College/School** N/A * * * **About the University** The University of Alabama is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, named one of Travel + Leisure’s 25 Best College Towns and Cities in the U.S. As one of the nation’s premier universities, UA offers bachelor’s, master's and doctoral degrees in nearly 200 fields of study. With more than 1,400 acres of tree-lined academic core campus and over 300 state-of-the art facilities, UA has been ranked among the most beautiful and most impressive college campuses in the South, in the state of Alabama and in the nation. In Fall 2023, the Capstone set a new enrollment record with more than 39,000 students, including more than 8,200 in the freshman class. The current enrollment includes students from every county in Alabama, every state in the nation and 92 countries around the world. More than 1,100 National Merit Scholars are currently enrolled, making UA one of the largest enrolling institutions of the scholars in the country. UA was recently recognized as a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. students for the seventh time in nine years, as well as a Top Producing Institution of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the first time. UA is one of only 12 universities in the nation to receive both honors. For reasons like this, the University made Forbes list of America’s Top Colleges for 2023 and Time magazine’s list of Top 50 Best Colleges for Future Leaders. It also made Princeton Review’s list of Top Value Colleges. UA is also designated among the top doctoral research universities in the United States in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. One of the fastest growing major research institutions in the nation, UA saw a 21% increase in sponsored awards in the 2023 fiscal year. Since 2015, UA has invested over $1.1 billion in the physical campus, adding more than 2.55 million gross square feet of space, over 150 new research-intensive faculty, signature research areas (e.g., “The Alabama Research Institutes”), and a growing number of partnershi…