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Teaching Assistantships

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TA Orientation

All new TAs are required to attend the Orientation for New Teaching Assistants organized by the Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE). Details of how to register can be found at the CEE website. Orientation for New Teaching Assistants is usually only offered once per year in September. We recommend you take the orientation even if you do not have a position lined up yet.

Finding TA positions

Handshake is the campus job platform, where many departments seeking students for employment list their job openings. Over 100 internships and jobs, both on and off campus, are posted every day. Whether you're looking for a teaching or research appointment or an off-campus internship or job, Handshake can help. Incoming students receive access to Handshake after registration for the fall quarter occurs, usually in May. 

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Environmental Policy and Management recruits for TA and Reader positions for 6 core classes each year: ENV 200A, 200B, 200C, 201, and 202.  Preference goes to second-year EPM students. We do not consider incoming students for any of these positions. Recruitment for EPM TA positions happens in March of each year. Selected students will be notified in April.

Environmental Science and Policy (our home department) offers TA and Reader positions each year. The application is distributed to incoming and continuing EPM students in March. The main review of applications and selection of candidates for TA positions for the following academic year takes place during April, but other appointments for positions that need to be filled are made on an ad-hoc basis as needed. Completed applications are accepted year-round.

  • Contact: Jennifer Carriere ([email protected])
  • Link to application here.
  • Deadline: Applications accepted year round, priority review by April 8th.
  • Classes previous EPM students have been a TA for in ESP: 
    • ESP 001 (Environmental Analysis)
    • ESP 110 (Principles of Environmental Science)
    • ESP 121 (Population Ecology)
    • ESP 123:
    • ESP 160 (The Policy Process)
    • ESP 161 (Environmental Law)
    • ESP 166 (Ocean & Coastal Policy)
    • ESP 168 (Methods of Environmental Policy Evaluation)
    • ESP 169 (Water Policy & Politics)
    • ESP 178 (Applied Research Methods)
    • ESP 179 (Environmental Impact Assessment)
    • ESP 191 (Workshop on Food System Sustainability)

Visit the ESP website

Partial list of other departments

Department of Plant Sciences
  • Contact: Kelly Paglia ([email protected])
  • Classes previous EPM students have been a TA for in PLS:
    • PLS 012 (Plants and Society)
    • PLS 021 (Computers in Technology)
    • SSC 112 (Soil Ecology)

Visit the PLS website

 

Department of Evolution and Ecology (EVE)
  • Contact: Sherri Mann ([email protected]) 
  • Deadline: Applications are accepted year round, priority review for EVE courses is in March/April.
  • Classes previous EPM students have been a TA for in EVE:
    • EVE 012 (Life in the Sea), BIS 2B (Introduction to Ecology and Evolution), BIS 2C (Introduction to Biology: Biodiversity & the Tree of Life)
  • Link to application here. Open positions are usually not listed on Handshake.

Visit the EVE website

 

Science and Society
  • Contact: Theresa Garcia ([email protected]) 
  • Classes previous EPM students have been a TA for in SAS:
    • SAS 004Y (Water in Popular Culture)

Visit the SAS website

 

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Contact: Alyssa Parsons ([email protected]) 
  • Classes previous EPM students have been a TA for: 
    • BIS 2A (Introduction to Biology: Essentials of Life on Earth)
    • BIS 2B (Introduction to Biology: Ecology and Evolution)
    • BIS 2C (Introduction to Biology: Biodiversity & the Tree of Life)
  • Link to online TA portal here.

Visit the Molecular and Cellular Biology website

 

Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology
  • Contact: Erica Cefalo ([email protected])
  • WFCB collects TA applications on a rolling basis, but has a priority deadline of May 31st.

Visit the WFCB website

 

Department of Statistics
  • Contact: Andi Carr ([email protected])
  • Statistics welcomes applications from graduate students in other programs, if positions are available. Positions may also be posted on Handshake.
  • To apply, or for more information contact the Undergraduate Program Coordinator ([email protected]).

Visit the Statistics website

 

Department of Anthropology & Sociology
  • Contact: Joanna Kaminski ([email protected])
  • Positions are posted on Handshake.
  • Classes previous EPM students have been a TA for: 
    • SOC 001 (Introduction to Sociology)
    • SOC 003 (Social Problems)

Visit the Anthropology website

 

Department of Political Science
  • Contact: Sarah Preciado ([email protected])
  • TA assignments are filled on a quarterly basis.
  • If there are open positions after considering their students, they are posted on Handshake.
  • Classes previous EPM students have been a TA for: 
    • POL 102 (Urban Public Policy)

Visit the Political Science website

 

Department of Communications
  • Contact: Stephanie Fallas ([email protected])
  • Classes previous EPM students have been a TA for in CMN:
    • CMN 146 (Communications Campaigns)
    • CMN 111 (Gender and Communications)

 

Department of Chemistry

Visit the Chemistry website

This list is continually being updated. This list is recent as of 5/2025.

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