Teaching Fellowships

GSAS guarantees teaching fellowships in the third and fourth years of graduate study equal to the current living stipend. Students must teach two sections, or fifths (fraction of the University rate for a full-time non-tenure-track teaching position), per term to satisfy this guarantee. Each fifth generally corresponds to teaching one section of a lecture course.

Although graduate students are not required to engage in teaching, it is considered to be a valuable part of the educational experience as well as a...

 
General Examination

The GE will be taken no later than the sixth term in residence, typically May or earlier as a G3. The exams should take place during reading period of the spring term, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on consecutive days (no weekends or holidays). Exams will take place not later than May of the spring term, G3.  Exceptions will only be considered by the DGS, in close consultation with the thesis supervisor, and must be approved by the faculty during a Departmental meeting and will only be granted for extraordinary circumstances.  The...

 
G3 Presentation Format

All third-year students in residence are expected to present to their peers and the faculty a short (20-minute) presentation on the research project that they hope will form the basis of their dissertation.  These presentations will be scheduled across two or three sessions in October, with four or five students presenting per session.  We hope that students will use this opportunity to support their contemporaneous efforts on the fellowship application front.

The purpose of this presentation is three-...

Teaching

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