** Sorry for any cross posting ** Job Opening Chinese Studies, Heidelberg At the Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, an on-line course introducing the use of digital resources in Chinese Studies will be developed over the next three years in cooperation with the University of Tuebingen and funding provided by the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry for Science, Research, and Art, and the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Stiftung (Essen). For the development of this course, a position is being funded for three years on a 3/4 BAT IIa level. Applicants for this position should have the following qualifications: - Degree in Chinese Studies with good command of modern spoken and written Chinese as well as classical Chinese; - Fluency in English as this will be the language of the course; - Excellent familiarity with sinological on-line resources both in Western languages and in Chinese; - Skills, and possibly experience, in developing teaching materials; - Capacity to quickly acquire new skills in program handling on the basis of a solid basic familiarity and routine in handling standard computer software as well as different Chinese encodings; - Experience in relating complex skills to inexperienced users with the help of different forms and media (on-line, on-site presentations, courses...) would be appreciated; - Goal-oriented approach that will secure that at the conclusion of the three year period the on-line course is to be functional in the way described in the funding application. Work will be done in Heidelberg, and the successful applicant is required to take up residence here. Details of the project will be found under: http://www.chinaresource.org/online-teaching/ Details about the work environment in which the project is situated will be found under: http://www.chinaresource.org The position is open immediately. Applications and inquiries should be addressed to Prof. Rudolf G. Wagner, Sinologisches Seminar, Universitaet Heidelberg, Akademiestr.4-8, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany, Tel.: 49-6221-547640 or 547765, Fax: 49-6221-547639, e-mail [log in to unmask] Applications should have reached the Institute by November 20, 2001. Initial E-mail or Fax applications accepted. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) ChinaResource.org -- European Center for Digital Resources in Chinese Studies http://chinaresource.org/ _______________________________________________________