Sessional Lecturers

The **Faculty of Forestry** at the UBC Vancouver campus is seeking to hire **part-time sessional lecturers** in the new **Bachelor of Indigenous Land Stewardship (BILS) program**. This is an interdisciplinary, four-year undergraduate program created to prepare students to design and implement comprehensive land stewardship systems that are grounded in Indigenous earth-based land ethics - systems that can operate in complex dynamic environmental systems, and inter-governmental environments to foster our next generation of land stewards.

The program includes innovative and diverse courses in areas such as Indigenous ways of knowing, ecology, law and governance, economics, communication, business management, research and data management methods, and community capacity building.

The majority of the courses in the program are multi-access — offered in-person and online — with mandatory in-person attendance for three field courses that occur at the beginning of years 1, 2 and 3.

The expected salary range for these positions is $3,000 to $4,500 per credit.

**We are seeking to hire sessional lecturers in the following courses in 2025W Term 1 and Term 2 (September 2025 to April 2026).**:

- Course Number
- # credits
- Course title
- Short Description
- Dates Offered
- ILS 101
- 3
- Introduction to Natural Resource Stewardship
- Introduction to the principles of ‘caring for the land’ and integrating this ethos into natural resources management, including topics on caretaking for the land, animals, and future generations; sacred places; and the principle of interconnectivity of all living things.
- Multi-access offering - Sept to Dec, 2025
- ILS 103
- 3
- Decolonization and Natural Resources
- Introduction to Indigenous People’s history, cultures and experiences, and the effect on control over natural resources, drawing from local to international perspectives, with a focus on how decolonization, as an analytical lens, can transform institutions and Indigenous People’s everyday lives.
- Multi-access offering - Sept to Dec, 2025
- ILS 106
- 3
- Holistic Resource Stewardship
- Introduction to holistic resource stewardship and the interconnectivity of all living things. A holistic resource stewardship approach is taught, and students learn to operationalize a holistic stewardship plan
- Multi-access offering - Jan to April, 2026
- ILS 108
- 3
- Plant Identification and Dendrology
- Introduction to structure, diversity and development of trees and other plants, drawing from Indigenous and western knowledge systems.
- Multi-access offering - Jan to April, 2026
- ILS 200
- 3
- Field Measurements
- Introduction to different techniques commonly used in field surveys, including assessments of landforms, soils, vegetation patterns and cultural features. This is a one-week field school to be held in late Sept/early October at UBC Forestry’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest.
- In-person offering - Late Sept to early Oct, 2025
- ILS 201
- 6
- Ecology 1 - Foundations
- Foundations of ecology, the interaction of organisms and the environment, drawing from Indigenous and western perspectives. Topics include organismal, population, community and ecosystem theories
- Multi-access offering - Sept to Dec, 2025
- ILS 204
- 6
- Ecology 2 - Disturbance and Climate Change
- Foundations of disturbance from Indigenous and western perspectives. Topics includes natural (fire, wind, flood, climate) and anthropogenic (logging, dams, mining, climate) disturbances in both intact and altered landscapes.
- Multi-access offering - Jan to April, 2026
- ILS 300
- 3
- Interventions on the Land
- Interventions on the land, drawing from Indigenous and western perspectives. Topics covered include problem diagnostics and the design and implementation of holistic interventions. This is a one-week field school to be held in late Sept/early October at UBC Forestry’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest.
- In-person offering - Sept to early Oct, 2025