Sessionals Postings

COURSE:

GEOG 161 – Urban Change: An Introduction to Dynamic Places

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

January 6 – April 25, 2025

DETAILS:

1X3 hour lecture (Mondays, 14:30-17:20 pm); TA supervision; 3 contact hours

SALARY:

$7,718 for 3 weekly contact hours

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, and politics, with a particular focus on the geographies of urban change. Candidates need to be able to help students think critically about the relationships between urbanism, urbanization, and globalization. Candidates are expected to speak about examples from various parts of the world. Experience effectively teaching large classes will be an asset.

This course has a Breadth Social Sciences and a Breadth Humanities designation; course content must fulfill these requirements https://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/our- role/academic-planning/curriculum-development/general-education-wqb/WQB- definitions-criteria.html

Learning goals:

• To understand what urban change is and what it might be in the future
• To understand the relationship between society, space, and urbanization
• To understand how we can understand urban change using concepts from critical geographical scholarship
• To understand how governance, planning, activism, and other practices shape and mitigate urban change

COURSE:

GEOG 215 - Biosphere

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

January 6 – April 25, 2025

DETAILS:

1x2 hour lecture (Mondays, 10:30-12:20) and 1x2 hour lab; TA supervision;

4 contact hours

SALARY:

$9,534 for 4 weekly contact hours

QUALIFICATIONS:

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

Qualifications include: a background in landscape ecology, biogeography and/or biological sciences, including an ability to teach students so that they become familiar with the basic properties of and processes in the biosphere, and with environmental issues related to the biosphere.

Learning Goals:

• Describe how biotic and abiotic factors control the distribution, development, and broader functions of organisms
• Describe ecological concepts including ecological energetics, nutrient availability, disturbance and succession, and biodiversity
• Describe the main concepts in the ecological subfields of population ecology, behavioral ecology, community ecology, and landscape ecology
• Describe the influence of humans on the biosphere; and how ecological concepts can be applied to conservation and stewardship of the natural world

COURSE:

GEOG 241 Social Geography

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

January 6 – April 25, 2025

DETAILS:

1x2 hour lecture (Thursdays, 12:30-14:20) and 2x1 hour tutorials;

TA supervision; 4 contact hours  *This is a reserve sessional instructor position.

SALARY:

$9534 for 4 weekly contact hours

QUALIFICATIONS:

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

Qualifications include an understanding of the main research questions, theories, empirical foci, as well as methods and methodologies that comprise contemporary human geography.

Learning goals:

• Explain how places are produced by social relations defined by uneasiness, struggle, and exclusion.
• Explore how geographers have theorized power, identity, and hierarchy to understand how certain places benefit some groups of people and not others.
• Examine how spatial forces and structures animate contemporary social struggles against capitalism, racism and colonialism and the forms through which people resist.
• Explore how alternative ways of thinking and being (e.g. Indigenous conceptions of land) can reorient broader conceptions of place and societal structures in which people live.
• Understand how the geographies of privilege, power, and oppression inform social justice struggles and are central to geographies of environmental degradation and justice.
• Understand how key theoretical frameworks and empirical foci inform geographical research on the interrelationships between people, place, and society.

This course has a Breadth-Social Sciences designation; course content must fulfill these requirements. https://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/our-role/academic- planning/curriculum-development/general-education-wqb/WQB-definitions- criteria.html

COURSE:

GEOG 327 Geography of Tourism

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

January 6 – April 25, 2025

DETAILS:

1x2 hour lecture (Fridays, 10:30-12:20) and 1x2 hour tutorial; TA

supervision; 4 contact hours

SALARY:

$9,534 for 4 weekly contact hours

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD, in geography or related discipline, and relevant demonstrated ability to teach in the classroom to 3^rd and 4^th year students with a range of experience in the discipline of geography.

Qualifications include the ability to provide students with critical perspectives of how tourism is connected to key geographical concepts such as globalization, mobility, production and consumption, sustainability, economic and social inequalities, physical landscapes and post-industrial change. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary social science views within geography and tourism studies, and employing examples from the local to the global context, candidates should be able to engage students in a critical understanding of how tourism places and spaces are created and maintained. Candidates who have a teaching or research background relating to tourism geography will be favoured.

COURSE:

GEOG 353 - Advanced Remote Sensing

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

January 6 – February 7, 2025 * partial semester

DETAILS:

1x2 hour lecture (Tuesdays, 10:30am – 12:20 pm, in January only); TA supervision;

2 weekly contact hours prorated

SALARY:

$1,736 for 2 contact hours ($5,902 prorated for 5 weeks)

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree; preferably a PhD, in geography or related discipline, and demonstrated expertise in remote sensing as well as relevant demonstrated ability to teach students with a wide range of academic backgrounds in science and social science.

Qualifications include demonstrated proficiency in advanced remote sensing methods and techniques for processing satellite and UAV imagery. Key topics to be covered include considerations in remote sensing data collection (e.g., sensors, platforms, and resolutions), commonly used satellite imagery (Landsat, Sentinel 2, MODIS) and access methods, UAV-based remote sensing (e.g., applications, regulations, collection procedures, advantages, and limitations), as well as an introduction to image preprocessing (e.g., geometric and radiometric corrections, atmospheric correction and common methods).

Learning goals:

• Understand the fundamental principles of electromagnetic radiation and remote sensing processes
• Define and appropriately use basic concepts related to remote sensing
• Investigate functions and characteristics of different remote sensing systems
• Discuss the application of remote sensing to real-world environmental issues
• Use the image processing software to implement basic analysis with remote sensing images

This course has a Quantitative designation; course content must fulfill this requirement. https://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/our-role/academic- planning/curriculum-development/general-education-wqb/WQB-definitions-criteria.html

COURSE:

GEOG 465 – Geographies of Conquest & Liberation

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

January 6 – April 25 2024

DETAILS:

1x2 hour lecture (Thursdays, 14:30-16:20) and 1x2 hour tutorial; 4 contact hours.

*This is a reserve sessional instructor position

SALARY:

$9,534 for 4 contact hours

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. 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, to guide the group dynamics of a seminar style classroom, and support students as they prepare to graduate.