University of Toronto Mississauga

Institute of Communication and Culture

Centre for Visual and Media Culture

EMERGENCY Job Posting for Sessional Instructional Assistant

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Effective Date for the below position: September 17, 2007

Closing Date for the below position: September 19, 2007

The following Sessional Instructional Assistant position for the Fall 2007 academic session is currently available.  The Art History and Art and Art History programs invite applications from qualified candidates who are not current University of Toronto students.

How to submit an Application:

Please submit a CV and a letter of application to:

Professor Louis Kaplan, Director

Centre for Visual & Media Culture

University of Toronto Mississauga

3359 Mississauga Road North

Mississauga, ON  L5L 1C6

Or preferably, by email at cvmcjobs@utm.utoronto.ca

No late applications will be expected.

The salary rate (+4% vacation), in accordance with the CUPE 3902, Unit 3 Collective Agreement effective September 1, 2007 is $36.17 per hour.

Notices and job ads are located here on this site as well as:

1. CVMC Bulletin Board

2. CUPE 3902, Unit 3

Course Description:

FAH204H5 Roman Art & Architecture

Surveys the visual arts of the Mediterranean, ca. 300 B.C. to ca. 300 A.D., moving from early Republican Rome and Empire down to the age of Constantine.  The course observes the inheritance of Hellenistic forms of art and patronage by Rome, and the formation of Roman visual culture.  Emphasis is on the figural arts, especially sculpture and painting, and on the basic vocabulary of monumental architecture and design.

Estimated number of positions: 1

Estimated enrolment: 75

Hours of work: 140 hours

Class schedule: Monday 9:00am-11:00am

Date of appointment: September - December 2007, (actual work may extend into January 2008)

Qualifications: The successful candidate will have completed a PhD in Art History; non University of Toronto graduate students who are close to completion and/or have demonstrated excellence in teaching a similar course will also be considered.  Please note that in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement, preference in hiring is given to students enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Toronto or prospective graduate students who have made application to be so enrolled, in accordance with the provisions of Article 14:03 of the CUPE Local 3902, Unit 1 Collective Agreement.

Duties: Marking of student work and submission of grades to university officials.