Date Posted: 08/25/2025
Req ID: 44613
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Dept of East Asian Studies
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Description:
Course Description: This course is designed to help students build communication skills in the Korean language. Through an integration of listening, speaking, reading and writing, it aims to provide a solid foundation in beginning-level Korean. This course assumes that students do not have any prior knowledge of Korean. Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.
Estimated course enrolment: 50 students
Hours of work: 210 hours
Class schedule: In-person lectures - Mondays-Thursdays
Sessional dates of appointment: September 1, 2025 – April 30, 2026
Salary: $54.27/hour, plus 4% vacation pay
Minimum qualifications: Native or near-native fluency in Korean, experience leading online tutorials and an ability to communicate information clearly required.
Preferred qualifications: Grading experience in a language course preferred.
Description of duties: Leading tutorial sections; Marking assignments and exams; Other duties may be assigned by the supervisor.
Application instructions:
Applicants must submit a detailed letter of application; an updated curriculum vitae; and the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 application form located here: https://uoft.me/CUPE-3902-Unit-3-Application-Form, by email with the subject line “Sessional Instructional Assistant Application” to: [email protected].
Following the closing date of the posting, selected applicants may be asked to attend an interview with the Korean language program coordinator.
Closing Date: 08/28/2025, 11:59PM EDT
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This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.
It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.
Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity-deserving groups are encouraged to apply and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the position.
Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.
