Adjunct Instructor of Communication, Artificial Intelligence Craft for Communicators

Adjunct Instructor of Communication -

Artificial Intelligence Craft for Communicators


The Master of Communication Management (MCM) program at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, is seeking a qualified Adjunct Lecturer to enhance the instruction provided by our full-time faculty. Specifically, this position will involve teaching CMGT 599: Artificial Intelligence Craft for Communicators.


This course will teach communication professionals the core, programming-language-agnostic skills surrounding software development — skills such as problem decomposition, systems thinking, algorithmic reasoning, and data modeling — so students can build real applications with emerging AI tools. This “agentic engineering” (previously “vibe coding”) approach means expressing intent in natural language and iterating with AI-assisted environments that scaffold code, user interfaces, databases, and deployments. Studen...