Sessional Postings

1.

COURSE:

GEOG 100 - Our World – Introducing Human Geography

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

September 01 - December 24, 2026

DETAILS:

1x3-hour Lecture (Monday 2:30-5:20 PM), TA Supervision, 3 Contact Hours

SALARY:

$7,718.00

QUFICTION:

Applicants should have a graduate degree; preferably a PhD in geography or a 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.

Qualifications include: extensive knowledge of the discipline of Human Geography, and its core concepts and perspectives, and proficiency in introducing students to the scope of human geography across a range of contexts (e.g., the city, population, nature, economy, culture, politics) while introducing them to the particular perspectives that human geographers bring to these topics. The course requires familiarity with the use of StoryMaps and Pecha Kucha presentations.

Learning goals:

• Discriminate among the various approaches human geographers use to describe and explain human activities from a spatial perspective
• Understand how human geography fits within the broader discipline of geography
• Understand and use key human geography concepts (e.g., space, place, scale, mobility, spatial imaginaries)
• Document and explain basic spatial processes and trends related to population, culture, food and agriculture, politics, economic development, and urbanization
• Use spatial reasoning in order to articulate the interconnections between geographical processes at local, regional, national and international scales
• Have sufficiently developed early undergraduate-level research, communication, and citation skills

This course has a Breadth Social Science and Humanities designation; course content must fulfill these requirement  https://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/our-role/academic-planning/curriculum-development/general-education-wqb/WQB-definitions-criteria.html

2.

COURSE:

GEOG 162

LOCATION:

Asynchronous - Online

DURATION:

September 01 - December 24, 2026

DETAILS:

1x3-hour Lecture, TA Supervision, 3 Contact Hours

SALARY:

$7,718.00

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferable a PhD in geography or history as well as expertise and demonstrated ability to teach. We embrace applicants with a student-centred, active learning pedagogy in order to engage students from a wide range of science and social science backgrounds.

Qualifications include deep knowledge of Canada, especially Indigenous Canada, from a human geography perspective. The instructor should be able to frame Canadian historical and present-day geography through the lenses of unsettling, resistance and resilience.

Learning goals:

• Develop the ability to apply the concepts of unsettling, resistance, and resilience to Canada
• Identify and describe major human geography changes in Canada over the past 10,000 years
• Characterize geographical regions of Canada now and in the past
• Critically reflect on role of colonialism in the geography of Canada, and critically evaluate narratives of Canada’s nation-building
• Develop effective referencing skills to communicate research and argumentation.

This course has a Breadth Social Science designation; course content must fulfill this requirement 

https://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/our-role/academic-planning/curriculum-development/general-education-wqb/WQB-definitions-criteria.html

3.

COURSE:

GEOG 221 Economic Geography

LOCATION:

Burnaby Campus

DURATION:

September 01 - December 24, 2026

DETAILS:

1x3-hour Lecture (Wednesday 2:30-5:20 PM), TA Supervision, 3 Contact Hours

SALARY:

$7,718.00

QUALIFICATIONS:

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

Qualifications include the ability to introduce students to the suite of on-the-ground economic geographical processes of concern to economic geographers, including but not necessarily limited to resource, manufacturing, and service industries; labour markets and migration; financialization; and globalization. Candidates must also be able to introduce students to prominent theories and approaches economic geographers use to explain the above processes, including but not limited to uneven development, and commodity chains. Candidates should be able to help students think critically about economic structures and their effects globally and for people’s everyday lives.

Learning goals:

• Gain a clear understanding of economic geography that you can use to better understand your own life, and the world around you.
• Formulate sufficient levels of understanding about the history, legal basis, traditions, and ethical considerations of economic geography.
• Apply course knowledge to real-world case studies.
• Gain the tools and critical thinking skills necessary for reflecting upon, and engaging with, economic systems at a variety of scales.
• Improve your reading, writing, referencing, and communication skills in preparation for upper-division undergraduate courses.

This course has a Breadth Social Science designation; course content must fulfill this requirement 

https://www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/our-role/academic-planning/curriculum-development/general-education-wqb/WQB-definitions-criteria.html