Common use of Instructor Positions Without Individual Job Descriptions Clause in Contracts

Instructor Positions Without Individual Job Descriptions. (i) Subject to the Memorandum of Agreement signed by the parties on December 11, 2003 these Instructor employees shall not teach more than three and one half (3.5) credits or the equivalent of one-and-one half (1.5) times the normal full teaching load of faculty employees in the same unit or sub-unit, whichever is less, averaged over each consecutive twenty-four (24) month period, and shall not teach more than the equivalent of one-half credit course in excess of 1.5 times the normal faculty employees’ teaching workload in any academic year ending August 31. For the purposes of this calculation, only the course credit values of 0.25, 0.5, and 1.0 shall be used. (ii) Subject to operational requirements, Instructor employees shall normally teach their full course load in the Fall/Winter Session. (iii) Total number of different or separately registered students in classes for which the Instructor employee is responsible shall be determined with due consideration for sound pedagogy. (iv) Maximum contact hours per week in any one term shall be as follows: (1) in all other units in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, except for the Modern Languages units in SLALS, seventeen (17) hours where five (5) sections are taught in that term; fourteen (14) hours where four (4) sections are taught in that term; and eleven (11) hours where three (3) sections are taught in that term; and, (2) in the Modern Languages unit in SLALS, a maximum of sixteen (16) hours per week averaged over two (2) years where necessary. (v) Where an Instructor employee is assigned the co-ordination of a multi-section course, or other substantial duties over and above the instructor's normal duties, there shall be an appropriate compensatory reduction in other assigned teaching workload.