Teaching and Other Opportunities
Teaching Opportunities
- All English MA students are awarded graduate assistantships that require them to teach
one course per semester. Typically, most students teach English 1010: College Composition
and Rhetoric.
- Additional teaching options may become available, including English 2020, a writing-intensive
introduction to literature course, or other upper-division courses in English.
- New graduate assistants participate in a weeklong pedagogy seminar before fall semester
begins.
- All graduate assistants attend weekly meetings with fellow assistants and an experienced
mentor.
Other Professional Development Opportunities
In addition, all English MA students are offered the opportunity to apply for the
following assistantship assignments (which replace teaching assignments) for one year:
