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Welcome to Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto
Our headquarters is in the Munk Centre for International Studies, 327N, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto.
LAS JOB POSTINGS– SESSIONAL LECTURERS
LAS 200Y1 Latin American History, Civilization and Culture
Course Description: A multi-disciplinary introductory course to Latin American Studies. Cultural, geographical, historical, literary, political and social topics are examined combining traditional historical narratives and supporting documents with art, cinema, music, and other texts from popular culture and mass media.
Estimated Course Enrolment: 95-115
Estimate of TA Support: 2 -3 (pending final course enrolments)
Class Schedule: Tuesday 2-4pm.
Sessional Dates of Appointment: September 1st, 2009 to April 30th, 2010
Please note the position includes the completion of any course grading not finished by April 30th
Salary: Sessional Lecturer I -$13,000; Sessional Lecturer II - $14,000 (including vacation pay)
(Rates subject to change pending the result of collective bargaining.)
Qualifications: PH.D. degree in a relevant discipline in Latin American studies; experience in teaching at the university level.
Description of Duties: Developing syllabus; teaching a weekly two hour class;
providing scheduled office hours for academic counselling of students; preparation and delivery of course material; preparation and delivery of assignments and tests; marking of student work and submission of grades; supervision of teaching assistants.
LAS 300H1S Topics in Social Science
Course Description: “A Global Perspective on Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America. The course focuses on the current state of democracy in the region, through a global political economy and historical
perspective of some selected country cases.
Estimated Course Enrolment: 25
Estimate of TA Support: n/a
Class Schedule: Thursday 10-12
Sessional Dates of Appointment: January 1st , 2010 to April 30th, 2010.
Please note the position includes the completion of any course grading not finished by April 30th
2010.
Salary: Sessional Lecturer I -$6,500; Sessional Lecturer II - $7,000 (including vacation pay)
(Rates subject to change pending the result of collective bargaining.)
Qualifications: PH.D. degree or PH.D.candidate in a relevant discipline in Latin American studies; experience in teaching at the university level.
Description of Duties: Developing syllabus; teaching a weekly two hour class;
providing scheduled office hours for academic counselling of students; preparation and delivery of course material; preparation and delivery of assignments and tests; marking of student work and submission of grades; supervision of teaching assistants.
LAS 301H1F Topics in the Humanities
Course Description: “The Postcolonial Imaginary in Latin America”)
The issue of Latin America’s postcolonial status is a controversial debate. The course explores this question through the analysis of the Latin American cultural imaginary. The most relevant events currently taking place in Latin America will be studied in relation to the most notable expressions of resistance originating in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Estimated Course Enrolment: 25
Estimate of TA Support: n/a
Class Schedule: Thursday 2-4pm.
Sessional Dates of Appointment: September 1st , 2009 to December 31st, 2009.
Please note the position includes the completion of any course grading not finished by December 31st, 2009.
Salary: Sessional Lecturer I -$6,500; Sessional Lecturer II - $7,000 (including vacation pay) (Rates subject to change pending the result of collective bargaining.)
Qualifications: PH.D. degree or PH.D.candidate in a relevant discipline in Latin American studies; experience in teaching at the university level.
Description of Duties: Developing syllabus; teaching a weekly two hour class;
providing scheduled office hours for academic counselling of students; preparation and delivery of course material; preparation and delivery of assignments and tests; marking of student work and submission of grades; supervision of teaching assistants.
Application Process
Applicants should submit a cover letter and CV by July 6th, 2009. Applications should be sent to:
Professor Rosa Sarabia
Acting Director, Latin American Studies
Munk Centre, 1 Devonshire Room 327
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3K7
Email: r.sarabia@utoronto.ca
Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.
This notice is posted pursuant to the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II by the Latin American Studies Program.
In accordance with the Employment Equity Policy, the University of Toronto encourages applications from qualified women and men, members of visible minorities, aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities.
Congratulations to LAS Director Ken Mills
The Latin American Studies programme at the Munk Centre for International Studies congratulates the programme’s Director, Professor Ken Mills, on his appointment to the Chair of the History Department at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus, beginning July 1st, 2009 and effective for three years. Professor Mills is a historian of colonial Latin America whose research and teaching engages with the late medieval and early modern Spanish world. He is the author of Idolatry and Its Enemies (1997) and An Evil Lost to View? (1994). He has prepared a sourcebook of primary texts and visual images, Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History (2002), with William B. Taylor and Sandra Lauderdale Graham. Recent work includes Conversion: Old Worlds and New, and Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (both 2003) co-edited with Anthony Grafton, his Idolatry and Its Enemies (1997). Kenneth Mills is writing a book around the journey of Castilian alms-collector and image-maker, Diego de Ocaña (c. 1570-1608).
LAS@UofT Summer Course Offerings
NEW329H1 Special Topics Caribbean Studies
(Caribbean Diasporas, Historical & Comparative Perspective)
MR2-4 WI 2008
SPA100Y1Y Spanish for Beginners
TR10-1 SS 2110 Ramirez-Salazar/Tba
TR6-9 NF 004 Tba
SPA220Y1Y Intermediate Spanish
TR6-9 NF 006 Tba
SPA259H1F Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Studies
MW6-8 NF 007 Tba
POL305Y1Y Politics & Society in Latin America
MW4-6 BA 1230 K. Reilly
GGR249H1S Contemporary Latin America
MW10-12 SS 2125 Tba
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