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BIOL 4065 Sustainability and Complexity 

POSTING DATE: June 15, 2022 

APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 15, 2022 This is a 5-day posting, renewable every 5 days from the initial posting to July 15, 2022 

POSITION: Marker* – 1 position available depending on enrollment 

PAY RATE: $16.61 per hour at 90 hours/position) *type of position and number of hours are subject to budgetary approval. 

DEPARTMENT/LOCATION: Biology Online 

COURSE SCHEDULE: asynchronous 

COURSE INFORMATION: Sustainability is a transdisciplinary area integrating equitable societies, protected environments, and robust economies. Achieving sustainability is a challenge that to date has had limited success in our complex world. Complexity studies offer new approaches for achieving sustainability beyond the traditional ones that have been mostly focused upon reducing unsustainability such as reducing resource use and embracing the machine model as a worldview. The course takes an international and particularly developing world approach to human development. 

ROLE OF MARKER: As a Marker for this course, you will have the opportunity to develop your critical skills through giving detailed formative and summative feedback on assignments. Your marking duties will require you to appropriately use and improve rubrics to assign students grades. I am looking for a Marker who is interested in working to support a diverse group of undergraduates with very diverse backgrounds and levels of scientific writing. 

REQUIREMENTS OF POSITION: Critical grading of assignments requires thorough background knowledge in the topics of sustainability, human development, and complexity theory as well as excellent scientific writing skills. Graduate biology students and past students of 4065 are encouraged to apply.  

TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION, PLEASE GO TO: http://admin.biology.dal.ca/TA/TA_form.php 

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Allison Schmidt, Teaching Support Coordinator Email: allison.schmidt@dal.ca 

All offers of employment and the associated number of hours are conditional upon student enrolment in the course, incoming graduate students and approval by the university. 

Dalhousie University is committed to fostering a collegial culture grounded in diversity and inclusiveness. The university encourages applications from Indigenous persons, persons with a disability, racially visible persons, women, persons of a minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity, and all candidates who would contribute to the diversity of our community. For more information, please visit http://www.dal.ca/hiringfordiversity