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SESSIONAL LECTURER for Fall Term 2024, at .5 FCE – CUPE 3902 Unit 3

Course# & Course Title: CHL 3005H – Legal Approaches to Bioethics

Course Description: CHL 3005H is required course in the first term of the Master of Health Sciences (MHSc) in Bioethics program. The MHSc in Bioethics is a two-year professional Masters degree program. Its students are early and mid-career professionals who work in healthcare, public health or other health-related settings. The MHSc in Bioethics has a hybrid program format with both in-person and online components. The in-person component is conducted during a Residency Week in September at the University of Toronto on the St. George Campus. The online component is conducted during six 2-hr synchronous online seminar sessions scheduled through the Fall Term.

CHL 3005H explores the law as a discipline within the interdisciplinary field of bioethics. Students will be introduced to seminal Canadian legal cases and court rulings influencing health policies and practices, explore the nature and orientation of legal and human rights reasoning on bioethics topics in health, assess critically the ethical underpinnings of key federal and provincial legislation and other regulatory practices in health, and explore the role and limits of current health law in addressing emerging bioethics issues and challenges in an evolving health landscape. A cross-cutting theme will be the concept of ethical justice (and related concepts of fairness, equality, and equity) in law and human rights, including substantive, procedural, and distributive aspects.

Course Learning Objectives: by the end of CHL 3005H, students will be able to:

• Describe the fundamental features of health law and human rights in Canada
• Describe the role and influence of the law in health care, health research and public health
• Identify the background premises and orientations of legal reasoning on bioethics issues in Canada
• Distinguish between legal and ethical reasoning in bioethics
• Apply legal and ethical concepts of justice to analyze and discuss bioethics issues in policy and practice

Estimated course enrolment: 18 students 

Estimated TA support: n/a 

Schedule:

• In-Person: Residency Week – September 16-20 (8hrs TBD)
• Online: Seminar Sessions – Thursdays, 3-5pm: September 12, October 3 & 24, November 7 & 21, December 5 

Sessional dates: Sept 1 – Dec 31, 2024 

Salary: $9,457.90 (Sessional Lecturer I)

$9,930.79 (Sessional Lecturer I Long Term)

$10,121.77 (Sessional Lecturer II)

$10,326.62 (Sessional Lecturer II Long Term)

$10,362.76 (Sessional Lecturer III)

$10,570.02 (Sessional Lecturer III Long Term)

(Salary inclusive of 4% or 6% vacation pay, where applicable)

Please note that should rates stipulated in the Collective Agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Qualifications: LLB or JD and Graduate Degree in Bioethics, Health Policy or related field; detailed knowledge of Canadian health law; direct experience with its application to bioethical issues in health policy and practice; previous teaching experience with professional learners an asset.

Description of duties: As well as normal teaching duties, the sessional lecturer will plan and deliver learning activities; recruit and schedule guest lecturers as appropriate; monitor student progress; mentor students and support learning; evaluate student assignments; maintain course Quercus page; attend MHSc faculty meetings; and communicate with the MHSc Program Director as necessary.

Closing date: August 1, 2024 

Application process:

All individuals interested in this position must submit a Curriculum Vitae, and the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 application form (PDF or RTF, also available at https://uoft.me/CUPE-3902-Unit-3-Application-Form to:

c/o Christine Lowe

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Email: [email protected]

Please do not apply on this website; only applications submitted to the email address above will be considered. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

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.

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.

Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II and Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.

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