Graduate students are required to serve a Teaching Assistant (TA) position in our undergradate programs during one term of the academic year. With supervisors' approval, student's may TA more than the one term/year requirement.
Training our graduate students in an apprentice relationship, and NOT the provision of financial support, is the principle rationale for the TA requirement. All teaching assistants are assigned to work under the direct supervision of a faculty member. During closed meetings at which graduate student progress is evaluated, faculty members may be invited to comment on the performance of TAs under their supervision.
TA duties might include development of laboratory exercises, grading of laboratory or other reports, conducting seminars with small groups of students, tutoring students individually, attending lectures given by the professor, and/or preparation, grading, and proctoring of examinations.
Capable students might be given the opportunity to give guest lectures to the class. The faculty member is responsible for assigning grades to the undergraduates in the class, for supervising the aforementioned duties, and for providing an evaluation of the teaching assistant. In exceptional circumstances, the GPC may agree to substitute for this requirement (but not the Psychology 2000/Neuroscience 2007 – Psychology 7100 combination) teaching of at least comparable responsibility and complexity at ±«Óătv, but outside our undergraduate program.
| Program of Study |
Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Year 3 |
| Experimental and Neuroscience Masters Program |
x |
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Clinical Psychology
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x |
x |
| Experimental and Neuroscience Doctorate Program |
x |
x |
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Note: TAships for Clinical and Doctorate students after Year 1 may be less than 130 hours.
TAship Support
The amount of a TAship is determined by the CUPE agreement. The first TA asignment for each graduate position is an automatic "TA-130 Hour" requirement which offers support equivalent to $3,173 per term.
