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TA Course Load Summary
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| Author: | David J Silva | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
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| Summary: |
In response to my administration's request for information regarding graduate student teaching/research and course loads at other universities, I posted a message to LINGUIST asking for feedback. Within 18 hours, I received 23 responses. Many thanks to those who volunteered information. Here's a summary, leaving the names of individual schools out of the picture. My limited sample (n=23) indicates three types of schools: 1. TAs/RAs receive no special treatment; they must be "fully enrolled" students (however such status is defined). It appears that in all cases, full-time students take 3 courses per term. >>> THERE were seven (7) such universities; all are publicly-funded. 2. TAs (and maybe RAs?) must be enrolled as full-time students, but part of their course load is dedicated to "training" or "apprenticeship." In these cases, all students registered for 4 (or 3) courses, with TAs getting a course's worth of credit for their teaching, bringing their "real" course work down to 3 (or 2) courses. >>> THERE were three (3) such universities, 2 private, 1 public. 3. TAs/RAs can (and generally *do*) enroll in fewer courses than non-employed students; generally the reduction is one course unit (3- or 4-credit hours, depending). >>> THERE were ten (10) such universities, 2 private, 8 public. There were also three (3) schools for which I could not determine if there was a difference between employed and non-employed graduate students. Again, thanks to those who responded so quickly. - David J. Silva <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> David James SILVA, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Linguistics Associate Director, Linguistics Program The University of Texas at Arlington Box 19559 - Hammond Hall 403 Arlington, TX 76019-0559 USA vox: 817-272-5334 * fax: 817-272-2731 * net: david@ling.uta.edu http://ling.uta.edu/linguistics/faculty/silva/silva.html |
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| LL Issue: | 10.548 | |
| Date Posted: | 16-Apr-1999 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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