Sessionals Postings

COURSE:

GEOG 100 - Our World – Introducing Human Geography

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

August 26 – December 20, 2024

DETAILS:

1X1 hour lecture (Wednesdays, 11:30-12:20 pm) and 1X2 hour lecture (Fridays, 10:30 –12:20 pm); TA supervision; 3 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: extensive knowledge of the discipline of Human Geography, and its core concepts and perspectives, and proficiency in introducing students to the scope of human geography across a range of contexts (e.g. the city, population, nature, economy, culture, politics) while introducing them to the particular perspectives that human geographers bring to these topics.

Learning goals:

•  Discriminate among the various approaches human geographers use to describe and explain human activities from a spatial perspective
• Understand how human geography fits within the broader discipline of geography
• Understand and use key human geography concepts (e.g. space, place, scale, mobility, spatial imaginaries)
• Document and explain basic spatial processes and trends related to population, culture, food and agriculture, politics, economic development, and urbanization
• Use spatial reasoning in order to articulate the interconnections between geographical processes at local, regional, national and international scales
• Have sufficiently developed early undergraduate-level research, communication, and citation skills

This course has a Breadth Social Science 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 213 Introduction to Geomorphology

LOCATION:

Burnaby

DURATION:

August 26 – December 20, 2024

DETAILS:

1x2 hour lecture (Thursdays, 12:30-2:20 pm) and 2-day field trip supervision; TA supervision; 4 contact hours

*This course has a weekend field trip. Include a field trip plan and budget. Course fees collected as part of tuition are $70.30 per student.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD, in 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 the ability to provide students with an appreciation of how the landscape around them formed and its continued evolution, with particular focus on landscapes of British Columbia, western North America and Canada. Commitment to incorporate qualitative and quantitative approaches and deductive reasoning.

Learning goals:

1. Recall and explain the fundamental physical principles and processes that govern landscape change
2. Apply physical concepts to the study of landscape change
3. Recognize landscapes and landforms from topographic, satellite and aerial photographic information and field observation
4. Use geomorphic data and knowledge to inform evidence based interpretations of landscapes and landforms
5. Develop a critical appreciation for the role of humans in landscape change
6. Effectively communicate scientific information in written, numerical and visual form

  This course has both Quantitative and Breadth Science designations; 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 241 People, Place, Society

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

August 26 – December 20, 2024

DETAILS:

1x2 hour lecture (Mondays, 2:30-4:20) and 2x1 hour tutorials;

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

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:

1. Explain how places are produced by social relations defined by uneasiness, struggle, and exclusion.
2. Explore how geographers have theorized power, identity, and hierarchy to understand how certain places benefit some groups of people and not others.
3. Examine how spatial forces and structures animate contemporary social struggles against capitalism, racism and colonialism and the forms through which people resist. 
4. 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.
5. Understand how the geographies of privilege, power, and oppression inform social justice struggles and are central to geographies of environmental degradation and justice.
6. Understand how key theoretical frameworks and empirical foci inform geographical research on the interrelationships between people, place, and society.

GEOG 253 - Introduction to Remote Sensing

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

August 26 – December 20, 2024

DETAILS:

1x2 hour lecture (Thursdays, 2:30 – 4:20 pm) and 1x2 hour lab; TA supervision;

4 contact hours

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 competence in the use of analog and digital remote sensing methods and techniques for processing aerial photography and satellite imagery. Topics covered include remotely-sensed data acquisition and correction, the concepts of spatial, spectral, radiometric and temporal resolutions, and digital image analysis techniques including pre-processing, classification (supervised and unsupervised) and change detection. Radar and LiDAR are introduced in this course. Applicants should be able to explain these subjects clearly and effectively to students, and provide them with an appreciation of how remote sensing data can be used in real-world decision-making. Lab assignments are preferably conducted using ENVI or IDRISI software.

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 both Quantitative and Breadth Science designations; 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 385 Food and the City

LOCATION:

Vancouver Campus

DURATION:

August 26 – December 20, 2024

DETAILS:

1x2 hour lecture (Fridays, 10:30am 12:20am) and 1x2 hour tutorial, TA supervision; 4 contact hours

* This course has a field trip. Include a field trip plan and budget. Course fees collected as part of tuition are $17.91 per student; additional fees can be collected if required.

QUALIFICATIONS:

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

Qualifications include: proficiency in providing students with a critical geographical perspective on: urban foodscapes; how race, ethnicity and gender influence people’s relationships to food production and consumption; expertise in teaching issues of food access and politics in low-income or otherwise marginalized populations and how food policies and practices are reshaping cities; ability to present diverse local, national, and international examples of urban foodscapes; capacity to guide students in critically engaging with research to understand their local urban food environment.