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1.

COURSE:

GEOG 261 - Encountering the City

LOCATION:

Vancouver Campus

DURATION:

January 05 – April 30, 2027

DETAILS:

1x3-hour Lecture (Friday 2:30 PM-5:20 PM), TA Supervision, 3 Contact Hours

SALARY:

$7,718.00

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree; preferably a PhD in geography or a related discipline, and expertise and relevant demonstrated ability teaching with student-centred, active learning pedagogy in order to engage students from a range of science and social science backgrounds.

Qualifications include: the ability to provide students with geographical knowledge of the full spectrum of topics within the field of urban geography, including but not necessarily limited to urban built environments, society and culture, economic development, planning, and politics. Candidates should be able to help students think critically about the relationships between urban built environments and urban life. Candidates should be able to speak about examples from various parts of the world.

Learning goals:

Students who complete this course will have:

• an introductory-level understanding of key concepts and themes in contemporary urban studies; 
• a clear sense of how geographical concepts, including space, place, and scale, enhance our understanding of cities and urban life; 
• an experiential understanding of how an urban region is shaped by social, political, economic, and environmental processes, both visible and invisible.

This course has a Breadth Social Science and Humanities designation; course content must fulfill these requirement  /vpacademic/our-role/academic-planning/curriculum-development/general-education-wqb/WQB-definitions-criteria.html

2.

COURSE:

GEOG 324 - Geography of Transportation

LOCATION:

Surrey Campus

DURATION:

January 05 – April 30, 2027

DETAILS:

1x2-hour Lecture (Monday 10:30 AM -12:20 PM), 1x2-hour tutorial, TA Supervision, 4 Contact Hours

SALARY:

$9,534.00

QALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD, in geography or related discipline, and demonstrated expertise in transportation geography as well as relevant demonstrated ability to teach in the classroom to students with a wide range of backgrounds in social science and sustainable energy engineering.

Qualifications include the ability to provide students with geographical knowledge of the full spectrum of topics within the field of transport geography, including but not limited to the relationship between transportation and spatial structure, economic development, land use, urban form, environment, and policy, across a variety of modes and spatial scales.  Candidates should be able to help students think critically about the relationships between transportation, mobility and place. Knowledge of examples from various parts of the world, including Canada, British Columbia and greater Vancouver, is expected.

3.

COURSE:

GEOG 328 - Labour Geographies

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

January 05 – April 30, 2027

DETAILS:

1 x 3-hour Lecture (Wednesdays, 11:30 AM - 2:20 pm); TA supervision, 3 Contact Hours

SALARY:

$7,718.00

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a Ph.D. or M.A., or equivalent, in the field of Labour Studies or Geography or related field with a concentration on labour or economic geography.

They need demonstrable teaching experience of courses in Labour Studies, Geography, or a related field, with a clear focus on critical labour geographies and the ability to teach students with a wide range of backgrounds in social science.

Qualifications include:

• Knowledge in the areas of the labour geographies, geographical political economy, and critical economic geographies including familiarity with digital labour geographies.
• Evidence of approaches that center Indigenous labour and settler colonialism, racial capitalism, critical migration studies, intersectional approaches to working class politics, and/or critical approaches to gender/sexuality and labour.
• Knowledge of relevant teaching and assessment methods.
• Knowledge of and familiarity with relevant teaching tools (e.g., Canvas).

4.

COURSE:

GEOG 364 - Cities and Crisis

LOCATION:

Vancouver Campus

DURATION:

January 05 – April 30, 2027

DETAILS:

1x2-hour Lecture (Thursday 12:30 PM-2:20 PM), 1x2-hour tutorial, TA Supervision, 4 Contact Hours

*This is a reserve sessional instructor position

SALARY:

$9,534.00

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD in geography or a related discipline, and relevant demonstrated ability to teach in the classroom to students with a wide range of backgrounds in social science.

Qualifications include the ability to provide an introduction to geographical perspectives on contemporary problems confronting cities, with a particular emphasis on competing explanations of social crisis. Desired topics would include but would not be limited to: environmental, housing, migration, economic, public health, and public safety crises. Ideally, the instructor will be able to help students understand how ‘crisis’ emerges from dominant regimes of political-economy and how crises play out in politics, culture, and social life. Candidates should be able to draw from examples of urbanization and place-making in relation to practices of racial capitalism, colonial state violence, Indigenous sovereignties, and social movements.

5.

COURSE:

GEOG 465 - Geographies of Conquest & Liberation

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

January 05 – April 30, 2027

DETAILS:

1x4-hour Lecture (Tuesday 8:30-AM 12:20 PM), 4 Contact Hours

*This is a reserve sessional instructor position

SALARY:

$9,534.00

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD, in geography or a related discipline and relevant demonstrated ability to teach in the classroom at the upper division level, to students with a wide range of backgrounds in social science.

Qualifications include the ability to lead students in critical engagement with literature in Indigenous geographies, Black geographies, anti-colonial feminisms, as well as studies of (settler) colonialism and conquest from Turtle Island and beyond. Expertise in literatures of urban Indigenous geographies in particular is required along with experience working with urban Indigenous movements, and/or having taken GEOG 665 (or its equivalent). As the course offers students a capstone experience, the instructor should have demonstrated ability to facilitate project-based research, to lead students in facilitating weekly presentations, and to guide the group dynamics of a seminar style classroom.