Teaching Assistantships
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 Arts and Technology, 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 are not allowed to accept outside employment. 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.
Usually a TAship qualifies a student for a Graduate Student Scholarship (GSS) covering tuition, fees, and medical benefits for ten semesters.
The TA Application must be filled out and submitted to the Arts and Humanities Office (JO 4.510) by February 10, 2012. Offers for the next academic year will be made in late April.
TA Application (.doc format)
TA Application (pdf)
Recommendation/Evaluation Form (.doc format)
Recommendation/Evaluation Form (pdf)
