| Teaching Assistantship
The more common form of graduate
aid consists of Teaching Assistantships. Teaching Assistants
support the educational mission of the School and gain
valuable experience by assisting faculty members with
instruction in undergraduate courses and by staffing
the programs and research Centers within the School.
Teaching Assistantships must be applied
for annually and are awarded on the basis of academic
merit. The selection of Teaching Assistantships is thus
highly competitive. Decisions concerning Teaching Assistantships
are made by the School’s Graduate Studies Committee,
which contains two faculty representatives from Aesthetic
Studies, History of Ideas, and Studies in Literature.
Students who apply for a Teaching Assistantship after
the annual deadline cannot be guaranteed consideration.
The University requires Teaching
Assistants to enroll for nine credit hours each semester
and to work twenty hours each week. Teaching Assistantships
normally carry a modest monthly stipend, tuition and
fee benefits, and partial medical benefits. Precise
terms of compensation will be specified in the letter
of offer awarding a Teaching Assistantship. Teaching
Assistants accepting outside employment may do so only
with written permission of the Associate Dean for Graduate
Studies. Failure to meet these requirements may result
in loss of the Assistantship.
The School has a limited number of
summer appointments (approximately one-third to one-half
the number for the regular academic year), and only
those students offered appointments during the academic
year are eligible for summer positions.
M.A. students awarded Teaching Assistantships
are eligible for support through 4 semesters of graduate
study, and Ph.D. students remain eligible through an
additional 12 semesters provided they do not exceed
100 hours of doctoral credit.
The TA
Application must be filled out and submitted to
the Arts and Humanities Office (Jonsson 4.510) by February
15, 2009. Offers for the next academic year will
be made in April.
TA Application (.DOC format)
TA
Application (PDF)
Recommendation/Evaluation
Form (.DOC format)
Recommendation/Evaluation
Form (PDF)
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