Call for Applications for Teaching Assistant Summer 2019 Environment 25 – Good Food for Everyone: Health, Sustainability and Culture
Call for Applications for Teaching Assistant
Summer 2019
Environment 25 – Good Food for Everyone: Health, Sustainability and Culture
The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) is seeking a qualified graduate student to serve as a Teaching Assistant/Associate/Fellow for the ENV 25 - Good Food for Everyone: Health Sustainability and Culture for Summer quarter 2019. Position is 50% time.
Summer 2019
Environment 25 – Good Food for Everyone: Health, Sustainability and Culture
The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) is seeking a qualified graduate student to serve as a Teaching Assistant/Associate/Fellow for the ENV 25 - Good Food for Everyone: Health Sustainability and Culture for Summer quarter 2019. Position is 50% time.
Session A: June 24th - August 2nd
Lectures: T/Th 1:00-2:50pm
Discussion Sections: three 50 min. sections, Tuesday 3:00, Thursday 3:00 and Thursday 4:00
This course is a broad introduction to issues relating to food with an emphasis on health, sustainability and culture. Health issues the class will explore include the science of nutrition, hunger, famine, obesity, food safety, and eating behavior and psychology. Sustainability topics encompass the interaction of food systems (both cultivated and wild) with key environmental challenges such as water quantity and quality, energy, biodiversity and climate change, as well as fair food production practices. Cultural and societal dimensions of food include questions about how class, race and gender shapes food access and food’s meanings to different groups historically, nutrition and agriculture policy and law, economics of food systems, and artistic engagements with food. Weekly discussion sections will be used to follow up topics addressed in lectures and readings and to engage in additional individual and group exercises.
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge: Principles of health, sustainability, and/or culture (particularly with respect to food) through formal training, education and/or field experience.
Skills: Prior teaching experience is preferred including discussion section facilitation.
Abilities: Communication, teamwork, flexibility, time management
Responsibilities
- Attend lectures and assist the instructor in organizing the class material
- Lead three 50-minute discussion sections per week (max. 25 students per section)
- Hold weekly office hours
- Assist in preparing and grading assignments
- Assist in developing, proctoring, and grading exams
- Potential opportunity to present a class lecture
To Apply
Interested students should submit a cover letter and CV by email (subject line: Candidate for Good Food TA) to James Bassett (jcbassett@ucla.edu ).
Cover note should include the following information:
- Current department/program and area of study
- Teaching experience
- Educational/research/field experience you have related to course topics
Applications are open until the position is filled.
For questions, please contact:
Cully Nordby
Academic Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
2316 Life Sciences Bldg.
nordby@ucla.edu
Lectures: T/Th 1:00-2:50pm
Discussion Sections: three 50 min. sections, Tuesday 3:00, Thursday 3:00 and Thursday 4:00
This course is a broad introduction to issues relating to food with an emphasis on health, sustainability and culture. Health issues the class will explore include the science of nutrition, hunger, famine, obesity, food safety, and eating behavior and psychology. Sustainability topics encompass the interaction of food systems (both cultivated and wild) with key environmental challenges such as water quantity and quality, energy, biodiversity and climate change, as well as fair food production practices. Cultural and societal dimensions of food include questions about how class, race and gender shapes food access and food’s meanings to different groups historically, nutrition and agriculture policy and law, economics of food systems, and artistic engagements with food. Weekly discussion sections will be used to follow up topics addressed in lectures and readings and to engage in additional individual and group exercises.
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge: Principles of health, sustainability, and/or culture (particularly with respect to food) through formal training, education and/or field experience.
Skills: Prior teaching experience is preferred including discussion section facilitation.
Abilities: Communication, teamwork, flexibility, time management
Responsibilities
- Attend lectures and assist the instructor in organizing the class material
- Lead three 50-minute discussion sections per week (max. 25 students per section)
- Hold weekly office hours
- Assist in preparing and grading assignments
- Assist in developing, proctoring, and grading exams
- Potential opportunity to present a class lecture
To Apply
Interested students should submit a cover letter and CV by email (subject line: Candidate for Good Food TA) to James Bassett (jcbassett@ucla.edu ).
Cover note should include the following information:
- Current department/program and area of study
- Teaching experience
- Educational/research/field experience you have related to course topics
Applications are open until the position is filled.
For questions, please contact:
Cully Nordby
Academic Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
2316 Life Sciences Bldg.
nordby@ucla.edu
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