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COURSE:

GEOG 104 - Climate Change, Water & Society  

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION

January 5 – April 30, 2026

 DETAILS:

1x3 hour lecture (Tuesdays, 2:30-5:20 pm); TA supervision

SALARY:

$7,718 for 3 weekly contact hours

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree; preferably a PhD, in geography or related discipline and expertise and relevant demonstrated ability teaching with student-centred, active learning pedagogy in order to engage students from a range of science and social science backgrounds and help build their understanding around climate change.

Qualifications include knowledge of the physical and social dimensions of climate change and its impact on water resources demonstrated experience teaching climate change from an interdisciplinary perspective demonstrated ability to equally cover climate change science, climate change impacts on natural systems and society, and human responses to climate change (governance, mitigation, adaption) demonstrated experience teaching both science and social science courses

This course has both Breadth Social Science (/ugcr/for_faculty/wqb_criteria_and_definitions/breadth.html) and Breadth Science (/ugcr/for_faculty/wqb_criteria_and_definitions/breadth.html)

designations; course content must fulfill these requirements.

COURSE:

GEOG 241 – People, Place, Society

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

January 5 – April 30, 2026

DETAILS:

1x3 hour lecture (Mondays, 2:30- 5:20 pm); TA supervision

SALARY:

$7,718 for 3 weekly contact hours

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD, in geography or related discipline, and relevant demonstrated ability to teach students with a wide range of backgrounds in social science.

Qualifications include an understanding of the main research questions, theories, empirical foci, as well as methods and methodologies that comprise contemporary human geography.

Learning goals:

1. Explain how places are produced by social relations defined by uneasiness, struggle, and exclusion.
2. Explore how geographers have theorized power, identity, and hierarchy to understand how certain places benefit some groups of people and not others.
3. Examine how spatial forces and structures animate contemporary social struggles against capitalism, racism and colonialism and the forms through which people resist. 
4. Explore how alternative ways of thinking and being (e.g. Indigenous conceptions of land) can reorient broader conceptions of place and societal structures in which people live.
5. Understand how the geographies of privilege, power, and oppression inform social justice struggles and are central to geographies of environmental degradation and justice.
6. Understand how key theoretical frameworks and empirical foci inform geographical research on the interrelationships between people, place, and society.

This course has a Breadth-Social Sciences designation; course content must fulfill these requirements. /vpacademic/our-role/academic-planning/curriculum-development/general-education-wqb/WQB-definitions-criteria.html

COURSE:

GEOG 328 Labour Geographies

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

January 5 – April 30, 2026

DETAILS:

1 x 3 hour lecture (Wednesdays, 9:30- 12:20 pm); TA supervision

SALARY:

$7,718 for 3 weekly contact hours

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD, in geography or related discipline, and relevant demonstrated ability to teach students with a wide range of backgrounds in social science.

Qualifications include:

• Ph.D. or M.A., or equivalent, in the field of Labour Studies or Geography or related field with a concentration on labour or economic geography.
• Demonstrable teaching experience of courses in Labour Studies, Geography, or a related field, with a clear focus on critical labour geographies.
• Teaching expertise in the areas of the labour geographies, geographical political economy, and critical economic geographies. Teaching experience related to digital labour geographies is an asset.
• Evidence of approaches that center Indigenous labour and settler colonialism, racial capitalism, critical migration studies, intersectional approaches to working class politics, and/or critical approaches to gender/sexuality and labour.
• Knowledge of relevant teaching and assessment methods.
• Knowledge of and familiarity with relevant teaching tools (e.g., Canvas).