Contract Academic Staff, 2024/25 Fall

3 weeks ago


Brandon, Canada Brandon University Full time

**Qualifications**: Applicants must have successful teaching experience and relevant expertise in the specified area. They will hold a Master’s Degree in a related field, and those holding a Ph.D. or who are at the ABD stage may be preferred. Relevant professional experience will also be considered and applicants may seek to establish an experiential or traditional knowledge equivalency to graduate degrees. More information on how to establish equivalent academic or professional credentials is available through the Dean’s Office.

**Salary**: $6,901.00 per 3 credit hour course

**Term**: Fall - September 4 - December 5, 2024
Winter - January 7 - April 4, 2025

**English, Drama, & Creative Writing**

**20.163 Introduction to Theatre - FALL**
An introductory survey course that examines the building blocks of theatre. Its aim is to increase the self-awareness, confidence, and communications skills of its participants by employing relaxation, improvisation, and storytelling techniques. 3 studio hours per week, one term.

**20.164 Introduction to Stage Performance - WINTER**
This survey introduces students to a rich variety of fiction, poetry, and drama in English, with focus on particular nations or cultural themes. Each section of the course is unique and is designed for students to learn the vocabulary of literary studies. The course emphasizes writing skills, with at least three essay assignments, and students will receive help, wherever needed, in planning, developing, and writing effective essays. Credit cannot be held for both this course and 30:161 or 30:162.

**20.267 Character Study - FALL**
An intensive investigation of techniques for developing and enacting characters onstage. 3 studio hours per week, one term.

**20.268 From Page to Playhouse : Shakespeare for Actors - WINTER**
Like 20:267: Character Study, this course will be an intensive investigation of techniques for developing and enacting characters onstage but will focus on more advanced texts such as Shakespeare’s plays. 3 studio hours per week, one term.

**20.353/354 Theatre Performance I & II - FALL**
Like 20:267: Character Study, this course will be an intensive investigation of techniques for developing and enacting characters onstage but will focus on more advanced texts such as Shakespeare’s plays. 3 studio hours per week, one term.

**20.356 Theatre Design - WINTER**
This course will focus on practical examinations of the preparation and production of contemporary plays and will pay particular attention to visual design elements including sets, lights, costumes, props, and projections. 3 studio hours per week, one term.

**30.145 Contemporary Literature - FALL/WINTER**
This survey introduces students to a rich variety of fiction, poetry, and drama in English, with focus on particular nations or cultural themes. Each section of the course is unique and is designed for students to learn the vocabulary of literary studies. The course emphasizes writing skills, with at least three essay assignments, and students will receive help, wherever needed, in planning, developing, and writing effective essays. 3 lecture hours per week, one term.

**30.367 Elucidata: Multimedia Poetry Workshop - FALL**
This course offers students a chance to experiment with innovative approaches to writing poetry in a variety of forms, including sound poetry, oulipo science poetry, multimedia performance, and audio/video production. 3 lecture hours per week, one term.

**30.451 Jane Austen - WINTER**
This seminar course provides an opportunity to study Jane Austen’s fiction with focus and concentration, examining her contributions to the novel form and to women’s writing. We will take a cultural, historical, and feminist approach to Austen’s writing, interpreting her work within the context of the Regency period in order to explore her reactions to her historical and cultural moment. We may take a brief look at some of her minor or incomplete works, but we will spend most of the course on her full-length novels, exploring her texts as individual works, while also considering intersections and departures among her novels in order to understand more fully Austen’s complexities. We may also give a little time to considering recent cinematic adaptations or reworkings inspired by Austen. Cross-registered with (Gender & Women’s Studies) 36:451. 3 lecture hours per week, one term.

**IWGIDVA Visual Arts**

**32.150 Writing for Fine Arts - FALL**

**32.165 Survey of Western Art I - FALL**
This course provides an introductory survey of art and architecture of the Western world from early historic times through the 18th century. We will focus on significant and representative art objects from historical periods, including sculpture, painting, and when most relevant, architecture. 3 lecture hours per week, one term.

**32.187 Painting I - FALL/WINTER**

**Gender & Women’s Studies**

**36.162 Making Sense of Gender - FALL**
This course introduces students



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