Teaching Assistant Information

Teaching Assistant Application Information
2013-14 applications are now being accepted.  For primary consideration apply no later than
Friday, May 24, 2013. Download the application below.

Teaching Assistant Orientation Information
 

 

Teaching Assistant Application Information

Each year the ES Program hires graduate students from across campus to serve as Teaching Assistants (TAs) for a number of our lower and upper-division courses. A list of ES courses which might require TAs this coming year is provided below.

To download the 2013-14 TA Application click one of two file options: .doc or as a .pdf with editable fields (read below directions on how to properly download, complete, and save the application as a .pdf).  For primary consideration, apply no later than Friday, May 24, 2013.  Please email your TA application (.pdf format preferred) to Erinn O'Shea: eoshea@es.ucsb.edu and make sure to make your name part of the "Save As" title. 

.PDF DIRECTIONS:  The TA Application is provided as an editable .pdf.  To use it properly one should first download the blank application to your computer, open it in a .pdf reader such as Acrobat Reader or Apple's Preview, and then complete the form and "Save As" to your desktop to preserve one's information. 
CAUTION:  If your web browser opens the file automatically when downloading the .pdf it may not be editable; or, it will allow data to be entered but fail to preserve the information when saving the document (it will come out blank).  To assure the .pdf application works properly download and open a blank .pdf from your desktop.

To review individual ES course descriptions visit ES course listings, to review past syllabi visit the ES syllabi page.

Quarter:

Course:

Course Title:

Instructor:

Fall 2013

ES 1

Intro to Environmental Studies 

Peter Alagona

 

ES 100

Environmental Ecology 

Claudia Tyler

 

ES 106

Critical Thinking & Env. Argument 

Simone Pulver
       

Winter 2014

ES 2

Introduction to Environmental Science

Ed Keller

 

ES 15

Chemistry of the Environment

TBA

 

ES 115

 Energy and the Environment Mel Manalis

 

 ES 188 Environmental Ethics Greg Graves
       

Spring 2014

ES 3

Intro. to Cultural and Social Environment

Greg Graves
  ES 25 Quantitative Thinking Lisa Berry
     

Summer 2014

*The Summer Session course offerings for Environmental Studies are tentative. However, each summer we do try to offer ES 1, 2, and 3 with one TA for each course. 

If you are interested in one of these three positions, please indicate this on your application. Decisions regarding assignments for summer sessions will be determined during the academic year. Please be sure to check with the instructor towards the end of the Fall quarter.

 TBA

Teaching Assistant Orientation Information:

Read/Download the ES Program's TA Handbook (.pdf).

FOR ALL NEW UCSB TAs:

Attendance at the Campus-wide TA Orientation Session each September is required by the UCSB Graduate Division for all new TAs and Readers. It also fulfills one of the requirements for the Certificate in College and University Teaching as announced by the Graduate Division two years ago.