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McGill Writing Centre Winter 2025 Courses
The McGill Writing Centre is inviting applications for Course Lecturers to teach Winter 2025 courses (undergraduate and graduate) posted during this October 1-15, 2024 period.
Application deadline: October 15, 2024.
ALL applications for current postings must be submitted within Workday.
Please indicate in the appropriate fields in Workday:
- the maximum number of courses you wish to teach;
- which courses you wish to be considered for in order of preference (please create ONE single list COMBINING ALL courses, undergraduate and graduate, in ranked order);
- if you have taught them before.
Please also upload the following documents in the CV field in Workday:
1) Your updated CV [REQUIRED]
2) Brief cover letter (if you are applying to teach a course you have not taught before or for which you have not previously received Teaching Qualification Requirement recognition) [IF APPLICABLE]
3) Copy of your valid work permit [IF APPLICABLE]
McGill University is an English-language university where most teaching and research activities are conducted in the English language, thereby requiring English communication both verbally and in writing.
Teaching Qualification Requirements (TQRs) for all courses are listed below the course details.
Please note:
1) Start and end dates of UNDERGRADUATE CONTRACTS: 2025-01-03 to 2025-05-10.
2) Classes will NOT meet the week of March 2-7, 2025 (inclusive).
3) There is no make-up lecture day scheduled this term.
Winter 2025 course details for October 1-15 posting:
- WCOM 150-701 (CRN 4931 – 3 cr) – Critical Analysis and Composition
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Monday and Wednesday, 10:05 – 11:25
- Location (subject to change): Ferrier 105
- WCOM 150-702 (CRN 4932 – 3 cr) – Critical Analysis and Composition
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16:05 – 17:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1351
- WCOM 150-703 (CRN 4933 – 3 cr) – Critical Analysis and Composition
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 13:05 – 14:25
- Location (subject to change): Leacock 210
- WCOM 150-704 (CRN 4934 – 3 cr) – Critical Analysis and Composition
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:35 – 12:55
- Location (subject to change): Burnside 308
- WCOM 203-701 (CRN 4935 – 3 cr) – Introduction to Creative Writing
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:05 – 11:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 465
- WCOM 203-703 (CRN 4937 – 3 cr) – Introduction to Creative Writing
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:35 – 9:55
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 465
- WCOM 203-704 (CRN 4938 – 3 cr) – Introduction to Creative Writing
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:05 – 11:25
- Location (subject to change): Ferrier 476
- WCOM 206-701 (CRN 4941 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 8:35 – 9:55
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1085
- WCOM 206-702 (CRN 4942 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 16:05 – 17:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1351
- WCOM 206-703 (CRN 4943 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:35 – 15:55
- Location (subject to change): Ferrier 105
- WCOM 206-704 (CRN 4944 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 16:05 – 17:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1085
- WCOM 206-705 (CRN 4945 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16:05 – 17:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1265
- WCOM 206-706 (CRN 4946 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 16:05 – 17:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 395
- WCOM 206-708 (CRN 4948 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:05 – 11:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1255
- WCOM 206-710 (CRN 4950 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:05 – 11:25
- Location (subject to change): Leacock 210
- WCOM 206-711 (CRN 4951 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 8:35 – 9:55
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 294
- WCOM 206-712 (CRN 4952 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:05 – 11:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 294
- WCOM 206-715 (CRN 4955 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 16:05 – 17:25
- Location (subject to change): Ferrier 105
- WCOM 206-716 (CRN 4956 – 3 cr) – Communication in Engineering
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:35 – 9:55
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1265
- WCOM 250-701 (CRN 4958 – 3 cr) – Research Essay and Rhetoric
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 14:35 – 15:55
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1265
- WCOM 250-702 (CRN 4959 – 3 cr) – Research Essay and Rhetoric
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:05 – 11:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1265
- WCOM 250-703 (CRN 4960 – 3 cr) – Research Essay and Rhetoric
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:05 – 11:25
- Location (subject to change): Leacock 210
- WCOM 250-704 (CRN 4961 – 3 cr) – Research Essay and Rhetoric
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 13:05 – 14:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1085
- WCOM 250-705 (CRN 4962 – 3 cr) – Research Essay and Rhetoric
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 13:05 – 14:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 395
- WCOM 314-701 (CRN 4965 – 3 cr) – Communicating Science
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:35 – 12:55
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1085
- WCOM 317-701 (CRN 4968 – 3 cr) – Writing the Internet
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 8:35 – 9:55
- Location (subject to change): Leacock 210
- WCOM 333-701 (CRN 4970 – 3 cr) – Writing Creative Nonfiction
- Salary: $9 625.00 / No of lectures: 26 / No of contact hours: 39
- Dates and time: 2025-01-06 to 2025-04-11, Mondays and Wednesdays, 13:05 – 14:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1265
- WCOM 635-701 (CRN 5625 – 1 cr) – ESL: Strategies for Academic Communication
- Salary: $ 3 208.33 / No of lectures: 10 / No of contact hours: 13
- Dates and time: 2025-01-14 to 2025-03-25, Tuesdays, 14:35 – 15:55
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1085
- WCOM 645-701 (CRN 5629 – 1 cr) – ESL: Fundamentals of Academic Writing
- Salary: $ 3 208.33 / No of lectures: 10 / No of contact hours: 13
- Dates and time: 2025-01-16 to 2025-03-27, Thursdays, 13:05 – 14:25
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1145
- WCOM 652-701 (CRN 5627 – 1 cr) – Fundamentals of Academic Presentations
- Salary: $ 3 208.33 / No of lectures: 10 / No of contact hours: 13
- Dates and time: 2025-01-15 to 2025-03-26, Wednesdays, 11:35 – 12:55
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1265
- WCOM 662-701 (CRN 5624 – 1 cr) – Literature Review 2: Establishing Scholarly Niches
- Salary: $ 3 208.33 / No of lectures: 10 / No of contact hours: 13
- Dates and time: 2025-01-13 to 2025-03-24, Mondays, 14:35 – 15:55
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 1085
- YCCM 208-031 (CRN 73 – 4.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)) – Professional Writing in Business
- Salary: $ 6495.00 / No of lectures: 10 / No of hours: 30
- Date and time: 2025-02-11 to 2025-03-13, Tuesday and Thursday, 18:00-21:00
- Location (subject to change): 680 Sherbrooke 294
TEACHING QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS (TQR) for WCOM courses in this posting:
The Teaching Qualification Requirements (TQRs) delineate the education, experience, and other requirements to teach a course. To ease legibility in the posting, the third section of “other requirements” is listed here first and applies to all WCOM courses.
“Other requirements” that apply to ALL WCOM courses:
Applicants must:
1. demonstrate an ability to design structured course materials, including learning activities, based on the course description and target audience;
2. demonstrate an ability to foster learning by establishing a positive classroom dynamic, involving learners in various activities, and managing student participation and group interactions effectively;
3. demonstrate an ability to communicate clearly and effectively in the language of the course, both orally and in writing;
4. provide evidence of an ability to use a variety of technologies to support student learning;
5. provide evidence of how they keep abreast of advances in the field of expertise relevant to the course in question;
6. demonstrate the ability to carry out the duties and obligations of a course lecturer in a respectful and timely manner;
7. demonstrate the ability to work with the Faculty of Arts and University administration to address class management issues in a constructive and timely manner.
TQRs for WCOM 150 – Critical Analysis and Composition
Education:
- Graduate Degree (PhD preferred) in Rhetoric, Composition, or a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of written communication for academic purposes.
Experience:
- Experience teaching written communication at the post-secondary level.
- Experience teaching written communication to students with a wide range of English language abilities is an asset.
TQRs for WCOM 203 – Introduction to Creative Writing:
Education:
- MFA in Creative Writing (preferred), or graduate degree in a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of creative writing at the post-secondary level.
Experience:
- Experience teaching workshop-based creative writing courses at the post-secondary level.
- Experience teaching post-secondary-level creative writing courses that cover multiple genres.
- Recent and relevant publications in at least one genre of creative writing.
- Awards and honours for published creative work is a definite asset.
TQRs for WCOM 206 – Communication in Engineering:
Education:
- Graduate Degree (PhD preferred) in Rhetoric, Composition, Business and Professional Communication, or a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of written and oral communication for professional purposes.
Experience:
- Experience teaching written and oral communication at the post-secondary level.
- Experience teaching written communication to students with a wide range of English language abilities is an asset.
- Experience teaching Engineering or Science students is an asset.
TQRs for WCOM 250 – Research Essay and Rhetoric:
Education:
- Graduate Degree (PhD preferred) in Rhetoric, Composition, or a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of written communication for academic purposes.
Experience:
Experience teaching written and oral communication at the post-secondary level.oTQRs for WCOM 314 – Communicating Science:
Education:
- Graduate Degree (PhD preferred) in Science Communication, Journalism, Communication Studies, or a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of science communication or science-focussed journalism is a strong asset.
- Evidence of having received training in communicating research findings to broad audiences is a strong asset.
Experience:
- Knowledge of current science journalism and science communication conventions and practices.
- Recent experience producing science journalism and/or communicating research findings to broad audiences.
- Established career as a science writer or science journalist is a definite asset.
- Experience teaching written and oral communication to science students is a strong asset.
- Experience using and supporting students’ use of current digital platforms, including social media, is a strong asset.
- Experience creating podcast or radio programs is an asset.
TQRs for WCOM 317 – Writing the Internet
Education:
- Graduate Degree (PhD preferred) in Communication Studies, Rhetoric, or a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in teaching the production of digital texts.
- Evidence of having received training in communication theory is a strong asset.
Experience:
- Experience teaching digital communication production using blogging and microblogging platforms at the post-secondary level.
- Teaching experience related to course topics, such as technical affordances, online audience requirements, online identity production, and wiki community norms.
- Experience using and supporting students’ use of current digital platforms, including social media.
- Experience designing assignments and in-class activities that are completed on digital platforms.
TQRs for WCOM 333 – Writing Creative Nonfiction:
Education:
- MFA in Creative Writing (preferred), or graduate degree in a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of creative writing at the post-secondary level.
Experience:
- Experience teaching workshop-based creative writing courses at the post-secondary level.
- Experience teaching post-secondary-level creative nonfiction writing (either as a standalone course or within a multi-genre course) and/or recent publications in at least one subgenre of creative nonfiction relevant to the course.
- Awards and honours for published works of creative nonfiction, including but not limited to literary journalism, are a definite asset.
TQRs for WCOM 635 – ESL: Strategies for Academic Communication:
Education:
- Graduate Degree (PhD preferred) in Applied Linguistics, Second Language Education, or a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of Corpus Linguistics.
Experience:
Experience teaching language learning strategies, such as how to use corpus tools.cTQRs for WCOM 645 – ESL: Fundamentals of Academic Writing
Education:
- Graduate Degree (PhD preferred) in Rhetoric, Composition, or a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of written communication for academic purposes.
Experience:
- Experience teaching written communication to second language learners at the post-secondary level.
Teaching experience related to course topics, such as teaching students how to apply structural principles that govern academic writing.eTQRs for WCOM 652 – Fundamentals of Academic Presentations:
Education:
- Graduate Degree (PhD preferred) in Rhetoric or a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of presentation strategies and oral communication skills.
Experience:
- Experience teaching oral communication at the post-secondary level.
Teaching experience related to course topics, such as soft skills, voice modulation, and non-verbal communication techniques for academic presentations.rTQRs for WCOM 662 – Literature Review II: Establishing Scholarly Niches:
Education:
- Graduate Degree (PhD preferred) in Rhetoric, Composition, or a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of written communication for academic purposes.
Experience:
- Experience teaching written communication at the post-secondary level.
- Teaching experience related to course topics, such as how to synthesize scholarly literature with the aim of framing original research.
TQRs for YCCM 208 – Professional Writing in Business
Education:
- Graduate Degree (PhD preferred) in Rhetoric, Composition, Business and Professional Communication, or a closely related field.
- Evidence of having received training in the teaching of written and oral communication for professional purposes.
Experience:
- Experience teaching written and oral communication at the post-secondary level or in a corporate context.
- Professional experience drafting various documents for professional purposes and contexts.
McGill University is committed to equity and diversity within its community and values academic rigour and excellence. We welcome and encourage applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities.
At McGill, research that reflects diverse intellectual traditions, methodologies, and modes of dissemination and translation is valued and encouraged. Candidates are invited to demonstrate their research impact both within and across academic disciplines and in other sectors, such as government, communities, or industry.
McGill further recognizes and fairly considers the impact of leaves (e.g., family care or health-related) that may contribute to career interruptions or slowdowns. Candidates are encouraged to signal any leave that affected productivity, or that may have had an effect on their career path. This information will be considered to ensure the equitable assessment of the candidate’s record.
McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated equity groups to self-identify. It further seeks to ensure the equitable treatment and full inclusion of persons with disabilities by striving for the implementation of universal design principles transversally, across all facets of the University community, and through accommodation policies and procedures. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accessibilityrequest.hr@mcgill.ca.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
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