When department funding is available, Teaching Assistantships offer our MA students the opportunity to work with one of our faculty in an undergraduate course.
TAs provide feedback on student writing, hold office hours and discussion sections, grade exams and papers, and, if appropriate, give occasional “guest” lectures. Students with 54 or more credits of graduate coursework at the beginning of any given term in which they seek to serve as a TA are generally not eligible for a Departmental TAship. The Department will announce when and if it is accepting applications for these positions pending budgetary conditions.
A teaching assistantship includes graduate tuition remission and a monthly stipend at rates determined by the University. Assistantships are defined as 0.30 FTE (full time equivalent) positions; assistants should expect to work on average about 12 hours per week. Please note, however, that depending on the specific tasks involved the actual number of hours may fluctuate widely from week to week. With limitations noted below, assistantships may be renewed for multiple terms: however, renewal is neither automatic nor guaranteed. Students must reapply each term funding is available.
By University policy, all TAs must be in good academic standing and maintain full-time status during their assistantship, e.g. they must be registered in at least 9 graduate credits per term (summer term excepted). Adviser-approved language study usually counts towards this 9-credit quota. Additionally, assistants must meet all the Graduate School's criteria for Academic Standing, and the Department’s criteria for Satisfactory Progress through the degree.
When department funding is available, the department will announce calls for applications via email to students.