Cs340aa Shopping and Consumerism

5 days ago

Waterloo, Canada Wilfrid Laurier University Full time

**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**:9435

**Position Title**: CS340AA Shopping and Consumerism

**Term**: Fall 2025 (September 1-December 31)

**Days/Times**: Thursdays 1130-1420

**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3/36

**Type of Course**:In-class

**Anticipated Class Size**: 50

**Additional Course Requirements**: None

**Posted on**: May 14, 2025

**Posting ends**: June 4, 2025

**Position Summary**:
This course engages shopping as a social practice that mediates our relations with each other and the world. Students will be introduced to media and communications theories, histories of consumerism and contemporary case studies that explore the meanings and effects of the “stuff” of consumerism, including its logistics, infrastructures, platforms, intimacies, discourses, and cultures.

**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
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- Evidence of Good Teaching
- Verification of highest degree

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- 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**:
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