Teaching Assistantships in Romance Languages
The UW Linguistics Department can recommend to the UW Department
of Romance Languages and Literature that an applicant be considered
for a position teaching Romance languages. If you are applying to
the General Linguistics or Romance Linguistics Program and feel
you are qualified to teach a Romance language, you may download
an assistantship application from the UW Graduate School's forms
page and return it by mail with your application to the
Linguistics
Department, as described below.
STIPEND AND DUTIES. Teaching Assistants receive
a monthly stipend for each of the nine months of the academic year.
(This sum is paid in halves, on the tenth and twenty-fifth days
of the month, from October 10 to June 25.) Teaching Assistants are
exempted from paying University tuition charges except for
an operating fee of approximately $210 per academic quarter. Teaching
Assistants are expected
to carry a minimum
study program of ten applicable credit hours each quarter
except Summer Quarter, when teaching assistants are only required to
register for two credits. The UW
Graduate School web pages show current stipend amounts in Schedule
#1 of the Graduate
Student Service Appointment Salary Schedule and the operating
fee amount in the General
Information about Graduate Student Service Appointments.
Teaching Assistants' principal service to the University is to
teach, under the supervision of a faculty member, one elementary
language class of about 24 students, meeting five hours each week.
Teaching Assistants are given instruction at the beginning of the
year and other advice and assistance as needed; supervisors and
Teaching Assistants meet periodically for discussion of relevant
problems. Teaching Assistants' duties, including class preparation,
correction of papers and quizzes, office hours and meetings, amount
to approximately twenty hours each week.
ELIGIBILITY AND RENEWAL. Eligibility is dependent
on admission to the Graduate School and acceptability to the language
teaching division as a teacher of Spanish, French, Italian, or Portuguese.
Within the limits of financial possibility and subject to certain
conditions, the most important of which are maintaining satisfactory
progress toward a degree and demonstrating competence as classroom
teachers, Teaching Assistants holding regular appointments will
normally be reappointed annually for the full term of their eligibility
(six quarters for M. A. students, nine additional for Ph.D. students).
TRAINING. All newly appointed Teaching Assistants
attend a training program that prepares them for their teaching
assignments. New and returning appointees must be present for a
required planning and training period and will be notified in writing
when that training begins (usually mid-September). Training will
include lectures by the faculty, filmed and live demonstrations
of college language courses, practice readings, and the preparation
of teaching and testing materials. Additionally, international students
are required to attend the International Teaching Assistant (ITA)
program which covers cross-cultural communication, teaching strategies,
and second language practice.
HEALTH BENEFITS. Teaching Assistants are eligible
for the medical, dental and vision benefits provided by the University
of Washington Graduate Appointee Insurance Plan. The health benefit
provides full payment of Student Only coverage and 50% of the increment
cost of coverage of spouse and/or children. A full description of
the specific benefits for the current year may be found on the UW
Graduate School TA/RA/SA
insurance page. Benefits are usually similar from year to year.
APPLICATION. In addition to your application to
the Romance Linguistics or General Linguistics program, return your
completed assistantship application with the following supporting
documents required by the Romance language programs as early as
possible.
- A one or two page academic autobiographical statement composed
by you in the Romance language of your major, presenting information
you think relevant to your application. Specify the objectives
of your graduate study, including the degree(s) you plan to seek
and your professional aspirations. (Title IX of the U. S. Education
Act of 1972 prohibits discrimination in admission on the basis
of marital and parental status; therefore, we ask you not to mention
these in your application.)
- A cassette recording (no micro-cassettes) of you reading the
autobiographical statement, together with any other informal comments
you wish to make.
- A sample of your work in some area of Romance languages and
literature; this may be a copy of a paper written by you for a
course in the area of your major.
DEADLINE. To insure consideration for a Teaching
Assistant appointment, see that your entire application reaches
us by January 15.
If you have any further questions or comments please contact us
at phoneme@u.washington.edu
Last modified 8/23/04 by Joyce Parvi
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