Adjuncts may apply to teach in more than one discipline and in more than one Academic School at MVCC. Most adjunct positions require a master’s degree in the discipline or a related discipline. The minimum qualifications required to teach specific program courses within each Academic School are listed in the table below, and as a downloadable PDF.
Please note: In many disciplines, a master’s degree in education may be considered a “related field.” Please contact the appropriate Academic School Dean to confirm.
Minimum Adjunct Faculty Qualifications
- Digital Media Marketing: Bachelor’s degree in discipline and relevant work experience
- Fashion Design: Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design, or related field AND experience in illustration, construction, and production
- Fine Arts: Bachelor’s degree in discipline and relevant work experience
- Game Art: Bachelor’s degree in discipline and relevant work experience
- Graphic Design: Bachelor’s degree in discipline and relevant work experience
- Illustration: Bachelor’s degree in discipline and relevant work experience
- Motion Media: Bachelor’s degree in discipline and relevant work experience
- Photography: Bachelor’s degree in discipline and relevant work experience
- Technical Theater: Bachelor’s degree and relevant experience; Master’s Degree Preferred
- Theater: Master’s degree in related field
- Video Production: Bachelor’s degree in discipline and relevant work experience
- Business: Master's degree in discipline OR Master's degree in related field AND relevant work experience
- Hospitality: Bachelor's degree in discipline OR Associate degree with five years of relevant experience
- Sports Management: Master’s degree in discipline OR Master’s degree in related field AND relevant work experience
- Workplace Success: Bachelor’s degree in other discipline and relevant experience in discipline
- HIT: Bachelor’s degree required, RHIA/RHIT credentials (Registered Health Information Administrator/Technician), and experience in Health Information Management field required
- Nursing: Master's degree in discipline, license in discipline, relevant work experience
- Radiation Technology Clinical: Associate degree required; Bachelor's degree preferred AND three years clinical experience in professional discipline, current CPR certification, American Registry of Radiologic Technologists current registration in radiography or equivalent (i.e., unrestricted state license for the state in which the program is located), and member of the American Association of Radiologic Care
- Radiation Technology Lecture: Bachelor's degree in discipline or closely related discipline, two years clinical experience in professional discipline, American Registry of Radiologic Technologists current registration in radiography or equivalent (i.e., unrestricted state license for the state in which the program is located)
- Respiratory Care Clinical: Associate degree in discipline required; Bachelor’s degree preferred AND license in discipline with two years relevant work experience.
- Respiratory Care Lecture: Bachelor’s degree in discipline AND license in discipline with two years relevant work experience
- Physical Education – Sports Medicine: Bachelor's degree in related discipline and relevant experience
- Surgical Technology: Credential in the surgical technology field from a nationally recognized and accredited credentialing agency AND within the last five years a minimum of three years of operating room experience or teaching in the field, or a combination of the two
- CF100 (College Foundations Seminar): Bachelor's degree in related discipline; Master's degree preferred
- Composition: Master's degree in related field AND Bachelor’s degree in English, Rhetoric, Composition OR Master’s degree in related field AND Bachelor’s degree in related field with at least 30 credits in English
- Critical Thinking/Reading: Master’s degree in related field
- ESOL: Master's degree in related field and Bachelor's degree in discipline OR Master's degree in discipline and Bachelor's degree in related field
- Film Appreciation, Music Appreciation, Art Appreciation and Art History: Master's degree in related field
- Foreign Language: Master's degree in related field and Bachelor's degree in discipline or equivalent experience (extended residence in country, for example)
- History: Master's degree in related field AND Bachelor's degree in History, OR Master's degree in related field AND Bachelor's degree in related field with at least 30 credits in History
- Journalism: Bachelor's degree in related discipline AND experience in discipline
- Literature: Master's degree in related field AND Bachelor's degree in English OR Master's degree in related field AND Bachelor's degree in related field with at least 30 credits in English
- Philosophy and Ethics: Master's degree in related field
- Sign Language: Associate degree with Certificate in discipline required; Bachelor's degree preferred
- Speech: Master's degree in related field AND Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Composition and Rhetoric, or Theater
- Education: Master's degree in discipline, active NYS teacher certification and three years classroom teaching experience
- Physical Education – Athletics: Associate degree, relevant experience required; Bachelor's degree preferred
- Physical Education – Coaching Certificate: Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline AND relevant experience
- Physical Education – Education Majors: Master's degree in related discipline, NYS teacher certification in subject area AND three years classroom teaching experience
- Physical Education – General: Associate degree and relevant experience required; Bachelor's degree preferred
- Physical Education – Recreation & Leisure Services: Bachelor's degree in related discipline AND relevant experience
- Psychology & Human Service: Master's degree or higher in Psychology, Social Work (MSW), School Counseling (CAS), or School Psychology and/or NYS licensure (Licensed Master of Social Work – LMSW), Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Mental Health Counseling, Marriage & Family Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy, Psychoanalysis
- Social Sciences – Anthropology: Master's degree in discipline or related field AND Bachelor's degree in related field
- Social Sciences – Criminal Justice: Master's degree in discipline OR Bachelor's degree in discipline and five years of relevant work experience
- Social Sciences – Political Science: Master's degree in discipline or related field AND Bachelor's degree in related field
- Social Sciences – Public Policy: Master's degree in discipline or related field AND Bachelor's degree in related field
- Social Sciences – Sociology: Master's degree in discipline or related field AND Bachelor's degree in related field
- A.O.S. Degrees and Certificate Programs: Associate degree with relevant experience required; Bachelor's degree preferred
- Engineering Technology: Bachelor's degree in discipline AND relevant work experience or license or certificate in discipline
- Biology, or Environmental Science Lab: Bachelor's degree in related discipline AND relevant work experience
- Biology, or Environmental Science Lecture: Master's degree in related discipline
- Chemistry Lab :Bachelor's degree in discipline
- Chemistry Lecture – CH131 and higher: Bachelor's degree in discipline AND Master's degree in discipline or related field
- Chemistry Lecture – CH120 and lower: Bachelor's degree in discipline AND Master's degree in discipline/related field or prior teaching experience
- Computer Science: Master's degree in discipline OR Bachelor's degree in discipline and relevant work experience
- Cybersecurity: Master's degree in discipline OR Bachelor's degree in discipline and relevant work experience
- Engineering Science: Bachelor's degree in physics or engineering AND Master's degree in physics/related field or relevant work experience
- Geology Lab: Bachelor's degree in related discipline
- Geology Lecture: Master's degree in related discipline
- Mathematics: Bachelor's degree in discipline or related field AND relevant work experience
- Physics Lab: Bachelor's degree in discipline or related field
- Physics Lecture – PH131 and lower: Bachelor's degree in discipline AND Master's degree in discipline or related field or prior teaching experience
- Physics Lecture – PH151 and higher: Master's degree in discipline or related field
- Weather Lecture or Lab: Bachelor's degree or higher in atmospheric science or Meteorology (or the equivalent) from an accredited college or university and/or relevant work experience
- Airframe & Powerplant: Associate degree with appropriate FAA certification required; Bachelor's degree preferred