Sessional Instructor, TRN250 Faculty of Arts
Department: Faculty of Arts, Trinity College
Term: September 2025 – April 20 2026
Reports to: The Director of the International Relations program; The Dean of Arts at Trinity College
Wage Range: 2024-2025 rate $19,340.00 (includes 4% vacation & subject to statutory deductions). 2025-2026 rate is TBD.
Position Summary:
Trinity College is looking to fill the position of sessional instructor for TRN250Y1: Empire, Nationalism, and the History of International Relations
This is a required course in the International Relations program. For information about International Relations, visit https://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/study-arts-science/international-relations/
Course Number, Course Title & Course Description
TRN250Y1 Y Empire, Nationalism, and the History of International Relations
This course is scheduled for Tuesdays 3pm – 5pm
Our modern world has its foundations in the development of a complex and changing system of international behaviours, customs, and rules. This course explores the global and often difficult transition from a world of empires to our contemporary world of nation-states, spanning the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Using a global lens, this course offers an introductory historical survey using multiple perspectives and diverse settings, paying special attention to the dissolution of empire, popular revolution and mass movements, and the creation of international order. How global transformations were experienced, not only at the highest levels of power, but also by the people living amidst such change, will be an abiding concern of this course.
Distribution Requirements: Science, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and Its Institutions(3), Thought, Belief and Behaviour(2)
Estimated Enrolment: 100 students
Estimated TA Support: 489 TA hours (for 7 tutorials)
Duties:
The instructor will teach the weekly class; mark the assigned work by the grade deadline as well as any student work that comes in late; hold two weekly office hours; attend faculty meetings.
Qualifications:
Ph.D. or equivalent in a field related to Environment and Sustainability. Preferably experience teaching first-year students and seminar courses. An excellent teaching record.
Application Process:
To be considered, applicants must submit the following in a single pdf by email to trinity.artsdean@utoronto.ca. Applications that do not include the required documents or follow the submission guidelines, will not be considered.
- Cover letter
- Current curriculum vitae
- Teaching dossier
- List of references with contact information
Application closing date: applications will be reviewed starting April 8 2025 and the position will remain open until filled.
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