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SESSIONAL INSTRUCTORS

The following sessional positions have become newly available for Spring 2025

Application Opens: November 1st, 2024

Application Closes: November 15th, 2024 by 4 pm

Appointment dates: January 6 – May 2, 2025 (Subject to Change)

Qualifications:

  • An MSc or PhD within the required discipline. Strong postdoctoral fellows, PhD candidates, or candidates with extensive (5+ years) industrial experience are also encouraged to apply
  • Evidence of teaching ability
  • Expertise commensurate with the specific requirements of the course

Required Employment Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Works closely with the Associate Director, Academic and Administration, and with Teaching Assistants (if relevant)
  • Delivers instruction, the content and syllabus of which is approved by the Associate Director, Academic and Administration
  • Manages electronic and/or other platforms for the effective delivery of instruction
  • If relevant, oversees Teaching Assistants while adhering to TSSU guidelines
  • If relevant, holds regular meetings with Teaching Assistants to ensure continuity and cohesiveness in the course
  • Holds regular office hours for students
  • Undertakes the grading of assignments and examinations per the grading policies/practices of the University
  • Compiles final examination and Term marks, and submits the final grades for students in the course
  • Manages grade appeals, as necessary, in a timely manner

Documents Required:

  • A current resume/curriculum vitae
  • A list of past courses taught at SFU and/or another University or College
  • A draft of the course outline you expect to use
  • Upon request, three current letters of reference, including at least one from a department/school/program for which courses have been taught
  • Upon request, short statement of applicant’s teaching pedagogy

Course Outlines: www.sfu.ca/outlines.html

Please email the required documents indicating which courses you are interested in teaching to: cs_manager@sfu.ca OR mail them to:

CS Manager
School of Computing Science, SFU
8888 University Drive, ASB 10700
Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6

Salary:

Contact hours for the courses listed below will between 3-5 hours.  Please refer to the Sessional Instructors Wage Schedule for current rates, TSSU - Sessional Instructors Wage Schedule (sfu.ca)

The School of Computing Science is now accepting applications for Sessional Instructors for the Spring 2025 term. Instructors are required for the following courses:

Course

Course Name

Requirements to Teach the Course

Campus

Day/Time

(Scheduled time and location subject to change)

CMPT 295 D200

Introduction to Computer Systems

Demonstrated familiarity with the fundamentals of computer architecture the digital systems underpinnings of computer systems, including: low-level programming, such as C and x86-64 assembler, knowledge of numeric representations, machine language programs, instruction set architecture, CPU and memory organization, basic digital systems, and program/code optimization. 

Delivery method: in-person.

Burnaby

Mon 1:30-3:20 pm

Wed 1:30-2:20 pm

CMPT 307 D200

Data Structures and Algorithms

Demonstrated familiarity with the design and analysis of efficient data structures and algorithms.

Experienced in the mathematical analysis of fundamental data structures and algorithms, including greedy methods, divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, network flow, and basic NP-completeness.

Delivery method: in-person.

Surrey

Mon 12:30-2:20 pm

Wed 12:30-1:20 pm

CMPT 310 D200

Introduction To Artificial Intelligence

Demonstrated special expertise in the major approaches of artificial intelligence is required: logic, search, planning, knowledge representation, constraint satisfaction, natural language processing, and machine learning and statistical methods.

Delivery method: in-person.

Burnaby

Wed 1:30-2:20 pm

Fri 12:30-2:20 pm

CMPT 365 D100

Multimedia Systems

Reserve Sessional Instructor. Please note this position is open to all applicants but Graduates and Post Docs will have priority of appointment to the position.

Demonstrated knowledge with multimedia systems design, multimedia hardware and software, issues in effectively representing, processing, and retrieving multimedia data such as text, graphics, sound and music, image and video.

Delivery method: in-person.

Burnaby

Tue 4:30-6:20 pm

Thu 4:30-5:20 pm

CMPT 371 D100

Data Communications and Networking

Demonstrated practical and theoretical knowledge of data communication fundamentals (data types, rates, transmission media); local area and wide area network architectures, and suitable communication protocols; ISO protocols and internetworking

Network performance analysis under different loadings and channel error rates.

Delivery method: in-person.

Surrey

Mon 4:30-6:20 pm

Wed 4:30-5:20 pm

CMPT 475 E100

Requirements Engineering

Experienced with all aspects of software requirement engineering, including the methodological analysis, design, validation, and documentation of the key attributes of a system before its implementation.

Demonstrated knowledge of best practices and common principles for requirement engineering.

Delivery method: in-person.

Burnaby

Thu 4:30-7:20 pm