CVA is Hiring Five Teachers Assistants for Fall 2025!
A teaching assistant supports an instructor who is teaching a course. Teaching assistant work may include meeting with professors, marking assignments such as tests and essays, holding office hours to respond to student questions about the assignments or material, responding to student email queries, supervising lab hours, leading tutorial sessions, and invigilating exams, as well as other related work.
TAs should be familiar with the course material, and the ideal candidate will have already taken the course for which they are a teaching assistant.
Ideally students are available during course hours. Textbooks and reading materials will be provided, and time spent reviewing these materials is part of the contract hours.
TAs are limited to 10 hours a week of work.
The compensation is $19.16/hour.
You are:
- 3rd or 4th year BCDJ or Visual Arts student
- have taken the course for which you are applying as a TA
- strong GPA
- currently enrolled student taking at least 1 course in Fall 2025
If you are interested in any of the positions listed below, please send a current resumé and an email outlining your relevant experience directly to the instructor. The deadline to apply is Fri., Aug 22, 2025.
Here are the courses for which TAs are being hired in Fall 2025:
| CMNS1100 | Principles of Communication Design | 60 hours | Dr. Peter Zakrzewski, pzakrzewski@tru.ca |
| CMNS3000 | Communication Research Methods | 30 hours | Dr. Peter Zakrzewski, pzakrzewski@tru.ca |
| VISA1500 | Intro to Visual Culture | 30 hours | Terryl Atkins, tatkins@tru.ca |
| CMNS2290-01/02 | Technical Communication | 60 hours | Clement Yeh, cyeh@tru.ca |
| CMNS1160 | Intro to Communication | 30 hours | TBA, please contact jandersen@tru.ca |