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...grad students, we get more experience grading as TFs. I wanted some teaching experience,” says Bridget A. Alex, a Human Evolutionary Biology graduate student who taught a mini-course on prehistoric history for the inaugural program...
Though Alex has not had experience being a teaching fellow, she says that older graduate students have warned her that TFs largely focus on grading and answering students’ questions about tests and homework. Alex says she found the opportunity to teach a mini-course appealing because it would give her lecture experience...
...Graduate Student Council-sponsored program of mini-courses has provided graduate students an important chance to gain experience teaching a course on their own and perhaps even further their career goals in academia...
Though the eight mini-courses each attracted only several consistent students, Graduate Student Council President Benjamin M. Woodring wrote in an e-mailed statement that the Council is planning to continue the program next year because it gives graduate students the opportunity to lead their own classes...
...range of mini-courses suggests a broad appeal across disciplines, with subject areas running the gamut from textiles and modern American Jewish culture, to stem cells and experimental approaches to mathematics...