Hourly Paid Teaching Assistant – Social Sciences and Public Policy – Auckland University of Technology – Auckland City, Auckland

The School of Social Sciences & Public Policy is looking for Teaching Assistants to undertake tutoring and marking for the courses below. The total hours in each course vary but all will be part-time at less than 0.4 FTE.
The successful applicants will have a relevant undergraduate qualification and current post-graduate students will be given preference. A high level of academic literacy and familiarity with referencing (APA) is required and previous tutoring experience would be an advantage.
SOSC582 Social Thinking
Students understand how history has shaped our changing ideas about how best to organize society, economy, and government, and how, in turn, social thinking has shaped societal and governmental responses to policy problems and challenges throughout human history. It includes an overview of the evolution of ideas in the social sciences, where the different disciplinary traditions have come from, how they fit together, and where they are going in the 21st century.
SOSC682 Methods of Social Research
Introduces students to the philosophy and techniques of social research. Philosophical assumptions and key approaches to social research are outlined, and a range of qualitative and quantitative methods are explored. A range of statistical concepts is covered.
CRIM580 Criminology and Criminal Justice
Introduces students to the patterns and regularity of crime and how the criminal justice system operates in Aotearoa (New Zealand). It provides a description of crime and emphasises the societal response by providing insight into the workings of the criminal justice system. This will be achieved by providing the student with a journey that starts with the offender’s initial contact with the police, the courtroom process involved in being convicted and on to the offender’s experience of prison.
CRIM780 The Police and Crime Prevention
This course is designed to engage students with contemporary issues relevant to policing and crime prevention. The relative failure of traditional reactive policing to have any impact on the problem of crime will be discussed at length and the styles of policing that emerged in response to this realization will be examined. The course considers the ideological shift towards the acceptance of more proactive styles of policing, which emphasise crime prevention over crime detection. Students are then introduced to the theory and practice of other approaches to crime prevention (e.g., environmental and developmental) and how crime prevention may evolve in the future.
CRIM782 Understanding Restorative Justice
This course critically examines restorative justice approaches and philosophies. Indigenous understandings of justice in Aotearoa/New Zealand have influenced the international development of restorative justice. In turn, restorative justice has had a considerable impact on the criminological world because of its emphasis on healing societal harm and is often seen as an alternative to the punishment of wrongdoers advocated by the criminal justice system. Rather than imprisonment, restorative approaches encourage community engagement, acceptance, and responsibility for harm done.
CONF781 War and Armed Conflict in Global Affairs
Analyses war and armed conflict as a persistent and profound problem in global affairs. Through a variety of disciplinary insights and perspectives, students engage with debates about the causes of war and armed conflict, their types, manifestations, and impacts, and changing concepts of security. International community efforts to mitigate or minimise war and armed conflict are also explored and evaluated, as is humanitarian engagement in conflict settings.
PSYC580 Introduction to Psychology A
Introduces the student to the methods and concepts of psychology. The strengths and limitations of the various perspectives that have been developed to explain human behaviour will be critically examined using relevant experiments and studies. The course content is designed to illuminate the complementary nature of psychological models and the workings of the scientific method.
The School of Social Sciences and Public Policy at AUT covers the disciplines of conflict resolution, criminology, economics, policy studies, psychology, sociology, and political science. We study society at many levels from individuals, families, communities, whānau, aiga, iwi, groups, organisations, governments and cultures through to the global system in which we live.
AUT will require successful applicants to provide proof of full COVID vaccination prior to commencement of employment.
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Job Type: Casual