THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

SCHOOL OF ARTS & HUMANITIES

 

 

APPLICATION  FOR  A  TEACHING  ASSISTANTSHIP

ACADEMIC  YEAR  2008-2009

 

 

Name                                                                   SID#                         

Exact Mailing Address                                                                           

                                                                                                           

                                                                                                      

Telephone:                               (home)                                         (work)

E-mail  address:                                                                                    

 

 

The university requires full-time teaching assistants (TAs) to complete a nine-hour course load each semester and to work twenty hours a week.  Full-time TAships carry in-state tuition and pay a salary of $1061 per month.  Usually a TAship qualifies a student for a Graduate Student Scholarship(GSS) covering tuition, fees, and medical benefits for ten semesters.

The program has a limited number of summer appointments (approximately one-third the number for the regular academic year), and only those students offered appointments during the academic year are eligible for summer positions.

Normally M.A. students awarded TAships are eligible for support through four semesters of graduate study, and Ph.D. candidates remain eligible through an additional eleven semesters, provided they do not exceed 99 hours of doctoral credit.  Please note that the GSS is only available for ten semesters, therefore, it is possible to hold a TAship without receiving the GSS if the TA is over the ten semesters of eligibility.

   

 

Continue:    Page 2 = Areas of Preference    Page 3 = Recommendations          Page 4 = Progress Report

 

 

 

Request To Be Considered For A Particular Assignment:

 

____  TAship in AP 1301 (Exploration of the Arts)
           Background in what creative practice?                                                           
           Please detail training in this area:

 

____  TAship in Rhetoric 1302 (to qualify a student must have completed 18 hours of
          graduate study in English, literary studies or creative writing):
            _____   I am currently a TA for Rhetoric 1302
            _____   I have taken or am enrolled in the Rhetoric training seminar (HUSL 7331)
            _____   I have taken or am enrolled in the Rhetoric Practicum (HUSL 7334)
            _____   I have experience tutoring in a writing center or teaching composition
                         elsewhere (Please list):

 

____  TAship in an American history survey course
           (HIST 1301: US to the Civil War and HIST 1302: Civil War to the Present):
          Qualifications:

 

 

____  TAship in the Art and Technology Program
           Qualifications:

 

 

____  TAship as instructor of record (open only to Ph.D. candidates) in one of the
           following courses (to qualify a student must have completed 18 hours of graduate
           study in the English, literary studies or creative writing):
           ____   Literary Analysis          ____   Advanced Composition
           ____   Creative Writing           ________________________
           ____   Literary Genre course:  _______________________
           ____   Other:            ____________________________________
                      Please detail relevant training and experience:

 

 

 

 

Letters of Academic Recommendation

 

       New  Students

Students new to the program who have recent letters on file (for example, with
Applications for admission) may simply name the referees whose recommendations we will copy and attach here.  If no such letters are currently on file, they should
contact the persons named here and have them send letters to the Arts & Humanities
address below.

Name  __________________________  Position __________________________

Name  __________________________  Position __________________________

Name  __________________________  Position __________________________

 

       Current  Students

Current students who have completed at least one semester of course work should seek a ÒRecommendation for TAshipÓ from a faculty member who can testify to their qualifications.  A form is attached to the application.

Name  _________________________________

 

Name  _________________________________

 

 

Students holding TAships  should have written evaluations of their work in their

graduate files from faculty members to whom they have been assigned or supervisors

of any courses they have taught:

 

            Name  _________________________________

            Name  _________________________________

            Name  _________________________________

 

 

All current students , whose annual progress reports to the Graduate School will be

copied to the application, must also proceed to page four to indicate their progress

in the program:

 

 

Progress Report on Graduate Work at UT Dallas

NAME:  ___________________________  Entered UTD in  F  Sp  Su  _______

Degree sought:    M.A.   M.A.T.   Ph.D.   in    Humanities   -HUAS   -HUHI   -HUSL

                            M.A.  in  History               M.A. or  M.F.A. in Arts & Technology

            B.A.  from   ___________________________   in   ___________ (month/year)

            M.A. from   ___________________________   in   ___________ (month/year)

Current GPA  _________      Hours completed  (by the end of  Sp08):   _________

                                                Number of outstanding incompletes?        _________

       Foreign Language:   ____________________

            M.A. proficiency requirement met?                 No   Yes,   in   F   Sp   Su   ______

            Ph.D. language-course requirement met?        No   Yes,   in   F   Sp   Su   ______

       Portfolio committee established:                           No   Yes,   in   F   Sp   Su   ______

     Proposal accepted by Grad. Studies Comm.? No   Yes,   in   F   Sp   Su   ______

            Portfolio completed?                                       No   Yes,   in   F   Sp   Su   ______

       Ph.D. qualifying exam committee established?    No   Yes,   in   F   Sp   Su   ______

     Qualifying exams passed?                              No   Yes,   in   F   Sp   Su   ______

Dissertation Proposal accepted by G.S.C.?         No   Yes,   in   F   Sp   Su   ______

       Currently engaged in dissertation research?         No   Yes

 

On an attached page, please indicate any other information you regard as relevant to your graduate work (such as fellowships, grants, or awards you have won, any publications, a list of exhibitions or performances in which you have participated).

 

I CERTIFY THAT, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS APPLICATION IS CORRECT AND COMPLETE.

 

SIGNATURE  _________________________________

 

APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES GRADUATE OFFICE NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2008.

Mail or bring them to:            The University of Texas at Dallas

                                               Graduate Program in Humanities, MS JO 31

                                               800 W. Campbell. Rd   

                                               Richardson, TX   75080-3021