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Tutoring for 2012
Expressions of interest are invited from university graduates to work part-time as tutors in undergraduate English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies courses for 2012. It is expected that successful applicants will have an Honours degree or higher. Applications are particularly encouraged from current and intending postgraduate students.
Pay will be at rates set under the Tutors Collective Agreement ($19.63–$26.26 per hour, depending on qualifications and experience).
Tutoring roles are characterised by the following set of basic conditions or expectations:
- Tutorials usually occur for one hour, per course, per teaching week;
- Tutorials are designed to provide: opportunities for small group discussion and interaction; learning support for course material and lectures; in-class advice as to the completion of assignments;
- Tutorial teaching begins in the second week of trimester and involves eleven weeks of actual teaching;
- Tutorials comprise up to 18 students per class;
- Tutorials (while their coverage may be directed by the Course Coordinators) are planned and resourced by individual class tutors;
- In addition to preparing and running tutorials, a tutoring role involves a few hours each week for student consultation and additional hours during the trimester for the marking of student assignments;
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Tutors are expected to attend regular meetings with the Course Coordinator during the trimester, and one end-of-course examiners' meeting, and possibly attend the lectures for courses on which they work.
See the 2012 Course Catalogue for the undergraduate courses we will be offering.
To Apply
Email address attaching:
- a covering letter;
- your CV;
- the application form;
- supervisor approval email if you are a postgraduate student;
- a copy of your work visa if applicable.
Applications close on Friday 20 January 2012.
Decisions will be made by early-February 2012.
Oscar Winner to Teach Film at Victoria
10 November 2011
A three-time Oscar winner is bringing his filmmaking magic to Victoria University this year, coordinating a Film honours course.
Alex Funke is an American-born cinematographer who has worked with Peter Jackson on the The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong. A Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), he is teaching FILM 404 this year, passing on the knowledge that has seen him win three Oscars, three BAFTAS and several Visual Effects Society (VES) awards.
Alex has worked in the film industry for nearly 40 years, beginning work in film visual effects in the 1970s. His first visual effects project was as cameraman on the television series Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers, both produced at a time when the idea of television shows based on visual effects was an untried notion.
Alex was invited to New Zealand by Peter Jackson in 1999, where he set up and directed the shooting of the miniatures for The Lord of the Rings. The work won Alex two Oscars, three BAFTAs, and two VES awards. He gives much of the credit to the New Zealand film crews, who he says are the best he has worked with, anywhere.
Alex has taught the craft of film both at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and at Loyola-Marymount University. He says his greatest passion has always been to convey to students that the vast arsenal of tools and techniques available to the film maker exists for only one purpose: "to tell the story".
Postgraduate Community
10 November 2011
We have a thriving and growing community of Masters' and PhD students within the School. Here we are on a walk in the Rimutaka Forest Park.
We get together for lunch regularly and we have an annual 'work in progress' conference.
Thesis Students
10 November 2011
Congratulations to Daniel Herman who has been awarded his PhD in English. Daniel wrote a study of Herman Melville's Moby Dick under the title "Zen and the White Whale". His supervisors were Vincent O'Sullivan and Peter Whiteford.