Sessional Lecturer – VPSC95H3F Theory and Practice: Art and Social Justice

Department of Arts, Culture and Media

University of Toronto Scarborough

STUDIO ART

POSTING DATE: June 20, 2024

CLOSING DATE: July 12, 2024

The following Sessional Lecturer position is available in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media for the Fall 2024 academic session. In accordance with the Collective Agreement, this posting is being sent as an email notification to all applicants in the Department’s Applicant Pool: all Sessional Lecturers who are teaching for the Department during the current academic year or who have taught for the Department since September 1, 2005, and all persons who have submitted an application within the past twenty-four months. Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with 14:12. 

Application Process

Applications must be submitted electronically, with a cover letter outlining your qualifications and a current curriculum vitae to Professor Jas Rault, Interim Chair of the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Toronto Scarborough using the online application system found at https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/webapps/slship/modules/postings/postings.php?d=237&u=1&s_a=true 

Salary: in accordance with the current CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement, the stipend rate for a half course (Y, F or S), inclusive of vacation pay, will be: 

Sessional Lecturer I: $9,457.90

Sessional Lecturer I – Long Term (Six or more years as SL I): $9,930.79

Sessional Lecturer II: $10,121.77

Sessional Lecturer III: $10,362.76

Please note that should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Sessional Dates (excluding Exam period): F courses: Sep. 3 – Dec. 3, 2024

Note: all positions involve completion of any course grading not finished by December 31, 2024 for F courses.

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VPSC95H3F Theory and Practice: Art and Social Justice

This open-media studio-seminar will explore contemporary art practices that are invested in the relationship between art, activism, and social change. Students will examine how artists address social, economic, environmental, and political issues and the techniques they use to engage different types of collaborators and audiences. Students will conceive, research and develop collaborative art projects that address current social issues on a local or global scale. This course will place a strong emphasis collaborative work and community engagement.

LEC 01

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MO 10AM -1 PM

September 1 – December 31, 2024

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All normal duties related to the design and teaching of a university credit course, including preparation and delivery of course content; participation in Studio’s exhibitions and guest lecture opportunities on campus; development, administration and marking of assignments and final portfolios; calculation and submission of grades; holding regular office hours. Applicant to work closely with permanent faculty.

Teaching experience at the university level. Instructor must have expertise in a variety of socially-engaged artistic methodologies that may include collaboration with communities and organizations, site-specific and media interventions, and participatory art projects. The candidate must have expertise teaching current artistic theory and history related to contemporary artistic work that explores activism and social change. Instructor must have an active practice and extensive exhibition history with socially-engaged artistic work as the primary focus.

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

The position(s) posted above is (are) tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolments.

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