Department of Philosophy

St. George, Mississauga AND SCARBOROUGH Campus

Sessional Instructional Assistants

Job Postings for F Courses 2007-08

The following jobs are posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement

Effective Date: Monday, September 24, 2007

Closing Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 

How to submit an application

Applicants who have submitted application forms in the past 12 months do not need to resubmit these materials and should just send an email to ta.phil@utoronto.ca indicating which positions they would like to be considered for.

To be considered for a position in a Philosophy course, an application consisting of the Philosophy Department’s custom application form for SIAs on-line from the Department’s website (http://philosophy.utoronto.ca) and a CV of no longer than 3 pages must be submitted to:

TA Coordinator, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Toronto

215 Huron St., 9^th Floor, Toronto, M5S 1A2

Fax: 416-978-8703

E-mail applications may be submitted c/o ta.phil@utoronto.ca

Both email and hard copy applications are acceptable. A valid email address is required. Please do not submit additional materials unless requested to do so.  

General Information

SALARY

In accordance with the CUPE 3902, unit 3, Collective Agreement, the hourly wage for all SIA positions is $36.17 as of September 1, 2007; and $36.35 as of January 1, 2008                            .

Qualifications

For General Sessional Instructional Assistants: BA in Philosophy or equivalent; good prior knowledge of the subject-matter of the course

Duties

For General Instructional Assistants: General teaching duties, such as grading papers, helping students with reading/assignments; possibly some classroom duties (invigilation, lecture attendance, etc.) may be involved.

Please note that the contracts for all Instructional Assistants at the SG Philosophy Department and some at UTM Philosophy Department include a minimum of 15 hours lecture attendance.   Tutorials and Office hours may be required at specified times.

GENERAL SESSIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT

PHL273H5 F Environmental Ethics

Environmental ethics is a relatively new development in philosophical thinking which focuses on the ethical and value questions arising from our relation to nature. Focal question of the area asks: Is the non-human world of ethical significance only insofar as it is connected with human well-being, or is ethically significant in itself? This course investigates and evaluates anthropocentrim, ecofeminism and radical biocentric theories of the deep ecologists.  

Instructor:  R. Hinton

Lectures:  W 6:00-9:00 PM

No. of positions:  1 @ 55 hrs.  Est. Enrolment:  75

Sessional Dates:  September-December 2007

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. All positions are tentative, pending budgetary approval and final course enrolments.
2. Please note that, with respect to the hiring of Sessional Instructional Assistants, the Unit 3 collective agreement affirms that the provisions of Article 14:03(a) of the CUPE Local 3902, Unit 1 Collective Agreement (extending preference in hiring 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), take precedence as between Unit 1 and Unit 3.
3. Applicants who have submitted CVs and application forms in the past 12 months do not need to resubmit these materials and should just send an email indicating which positions they would like to be considered for.