Cs413ja The Documentary Gaze

**Date**:May 15, 2025 **Location**: Waterloo, CA **Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University **Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Arts **Department**: Communication Studies **Campus**: Waterloo **Employee Group**: WLUFA **Requisition ID**:9437 **Position Title**: CS413JA The Documentary Gaze **Term**: Fall 2025 (September 1-December 31) **Days/Times**: Tuesdays 1600-1850 **Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3/36 **Type of Course**:In-class **Anticipated Class Size**: 30 **Additional Course Requirements**: None **Posted on**: May 14, 2025 **Posting ends**: June 4, 2025 **Position Summary**: This course investigates the documentary gaze as an orientation to knowledge and experience. Students will explore documentary practice from history to the present, and consider how the "work" of documenting social, political, historical, and cultural life becomes a question for communication studies. Various media will be considered, including, but not limited to, film, photography, performance and new media. **Qualifications - Required**: PhD **Qualifications - Discipline**: Communication Studies or cognate discipline **Qualifications - Areas of Specialization**: **Qualifications - Professional Designation**: **Application Deadline**: June 4, 2025 **Submit with Application**: Required for All Applicants - CV (required) Required for External Applicants - Names and Contact Information for Referees - Evidence of Good Teaching - Verification of highest degree Optional - Cover Letter highlighting teaching and research experience relevant to the posted course - Teaching Dossier: may include material such as statement of teaching philosophy, past taught syllabi, prospective syllabi/course outlines (can be shorter than a full syllabus and up to two pages), teaching evaluations (only original institutional records will be considered, not summaries nor selected excerpts), other evidence of good teaching (such as teaching awards, letters from colleagues assessing teaching, workshops and training).- Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum) **Applications may be addressed to**: Communication Studies Part-time Appointment Committee Department of Communication Studies **To Apply**: **Please Note**: For Supplementary Remuneration for large classes or multi-section courses, see Article 28.3 Members of the designated groups must self-identify to the appropriate Dean(s) to be considered for employment equity. Members of the Contract Teaching Faculty bargaining unit: **Job Segment**:Photography, Developer, Web Design, Part Time, Creative, Technology, Research