Position Description
Sessional Teaching in the School of Culture & Communication
Sessional lectureships are fixed-term for either Semester 1 or 2.
Further information is available from the relevant Head of the study area in which the subject is offered or Ms Sharon Tribe, Academic Programs Manager for the School of Culture & Communication.
Written applications including an up-to-date curriculum vitae and names of two academic referees are to be lodged by the closing date, 4 December 2009 (no late applications will be accepted), addressed to
Sharon Tribe
School of Culture and Communication,
University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010.
Please see the selection criteria, and in particular the important information detailed below.
Your written application must address the specified selection criteria in order to be considered.
Applications can be submitted in hard copy or electronically.
Selection criteria
- potential as a teacher: in particular, an ability to communicate effectively with undergraduates and to be responsive to the University's administrative needs
- previous experience with course subject-matter
- academic standing
- communicate effectively in both written and oral form
- work effectively as a team member; and
- work well under pressure to meet deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
It is the expectation of the School that a sessional teacher will make a significant contribution to the teaching effort of the School at undergraduate level.
Specific duties will include:
- LMS site production
- delivery of lectures and conduct of tutorials or workshops in accordance with School standards
- consultation with students
- setting of assessment and marking of assessable work in the relevant subject
- supervision of tutors (this is dependent on subject enrolment numbers)
- production of subject reader and/or other teaching materials and preparation or revision of reserve lists, bibliography
- attendance at Examiners meetings at the conclusion of the assessment period
- liaison with School administrative staff regarding results processing, timetable and School administrative procedures.
Important Information
Sessional teaching positions will normally be advertised to postgraduate students, via email and the School website.
It is policy of the School that applicants for a level 4/5 subject should have completed their PhD but we encourage applications from all who feel they are able to teach the subject and also from those who have previously taught any of the subjects detailed as requiring a sessional lecturer/coordinator.
The School will strive to provide teaching experience for all doctoral students. To be considered for a sessional lectureship, a postgraduate should normally have the support of their supervisor; normally have not had more than two semesters of teaching during their candidature; and demonstrate that sessional teaching will not affect the timely completion of their thesis.
Postgraduate students will not normally be employed in the first or last six months of their candidature; or if their candidature has not been confirmed.
In making appointments, the School is guided by the University's "Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual".
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)
All staff in the University are responsible for ensuring safe work-procedures and instructions. They must:
- take reasonable care for the safety of self and others
- ensure that any hazardous conditions, near misses and injuries are reported immediately to a supervisor
- seek guidance for all new or modified work procedures
- participate in meetings, training and other health and safety activities
- wear personal protective equipment as provided
- use equipment in compliance with relevant guidelines, without wilful interference or misuse
- adopt work practices that support the environment health and safety programs.
- performing official duties with skill, care and diligence
- treating students, colleagues and members of the public with courtesy, and with respect for their rights, duties and aspirations
- performing duties professionally (this includes not physically assaulting or insulting, threatening or maligning another university colleague, or behaving in a way that brings the university into disrepute
- observing relevant Acts, regulations, awards and university policies and procedures.
Job Complexity, Skills, Knowledge
All staff in the University are expected to maintain a high standard of conduct and work performance and observe standards of equity and fairness in dealing with students, members of the public and staff. This includes:
List of Subjects requiring sessional coordinating:
Arts Management
760431 |
Arts Management |
760442 |
Arts Policy and Issues |
760484 |
Audience and the Arts |
760522 |
Advanced Management |
760523 |
Financial Management |
760527 |
Advanced Arts Policy |
760528 |
Managing Creative Content |
760545 |
Finance and Budgeting |
760552 |
The Economics of Culture |
Cinema & Cultural Studies
106101 |
Culture, Media and Everyday Life |
106226 |
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture |
106243 |
Sex and the Screen |
106245 |
Global Screen Cultures |
106246 |
Television and Popular Culture |
106009 |
Screen & Media Histories |
106300 |
Cinema and the City |
106301 |
Rock to Rave |
106320 |
Digital Media Scape |
106402 |
Cultural Policy and Power |
107421 |
Contemporary Film Theory |
106432 |
Cultural Studies in Asia |
107440 |
Hitchcock, Film and Art |
107459 |
Screen Media and Mediated Experiences |
107542 |
The Director's Cut (Summer intensive) |
107509 |
Film Production: From Script to Screen |
Creative Writing
106236 |
Script for Performance |
106363 |
Writing For Theatre |
106364 |
Poetry and Poetics |
106366 |
Writing Through Character |
106406 |
Contested Sites |
106480 |
Life Writing |
760512 |
Research for the Creative Writer |
760513 |
Writing the Unconscious |
760520 |
Text, Time and Space |
English
|
Romanticism, Feminism, Revolution (co-coordination |
106361 |
Critical Debates (co-coordination) |
670317 |
Backgrounds to English Literature |
670327 |
Art/Pornography/Blasphemy/Propaganda |
106423 |
Romanticism and Modernity |
106433 |
Genre Interventions |
Media & Communications
|
Introduction to Media and Communications (semester 1 & 2) |
100206 |
Net Communications |
100207 |
Asian Public Relations |
100222 |
Understanding Australian Media |
100301 |
Global Media Cultures |
100302 |
Politics, Communication, Media |
100303 |
Media Futures and New Technologies |
100304 |
Media Law |
100311 |
Media & Communications Research Project |
100312 |
Advanced Writing |
670302 |
Writing Journalism |
670305 |
Marketing Communications |
100401 |
Global Media: Theory and Research |
100415 |
Journalism: Conflict and Society |
100416 |
Researching Audiences and Reception |
100419 |
Public Relations and Corporate Power |
100571 |
Media Convergence and Digital Culture |
If additional subjects become available they will be added to this list. At this stage there are no sessional lectureships available in Art History.