ES Teaching Assistants

Environmental Studies Call for '09-'10 TA Applications
2009-10 Applications are available! For primary consideration completed applications should be submitted no later than May 22, 2009, but we will continue to accept applications through June.

Download the Environmental Studies Program's Teaching Assistant Handbook

NOTE: Attendance at the TA Orientation Session 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. See the UCSB Graduate Division website for more info about this session: http://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/academic/ccut/

Environmental Studies Teaching Assistant Handbook . It is available for download in a .pdf format. (You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader application to view it. To Download Acrobat Reader go to their website by clicking here.) Last updated in 2004.To download the 25 page ES TA Handbook click here!

Call for Applications: 2009-2010 TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS For the ES Program

The Environmental Studies Program is now accepting Applications for Teaching Assistantships for the 2009-2010 academic year.  For primary consideration, apply by Friday, May 22, 2009.  The TA application is available as an editable .pdf form. To access/download the application click here and enter your information within the form via Acrobat Reader. It is also available in hard copy format at the Environmental Studies Program's Main Office in Bren Hall, Rm 4312.

Once your application is completed you may drop it off at the ES Main Office in Bren Hall 4312, mail it in to:  TA Selection Committee, Environmental Studies Program MC 4160, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160, or save it (as text file) to your desktop and then attacht it to an email directed to eoshea@es.ucsb.edu. Be sure to include your last name in the file name if you send it via email.

Note: Applicants must be a registered UCSB graduate student (minimum of 8 units) for the quarter in which you wish to TA. Combined employment for graduate students must not exceed 50%.

Questions about TA opportunities within the Environmental Studies Program should be directed to Erinn O'Shea at 805-893-2905 or eoshea@es.ucsb.edu.

The following list contains the proposed ES courses for the 2009-2010 academic year which will most likely require teaching assistants. Please indicate which classes you are interested in TAing for on your application. To review individual course descriptions click here.

Fall 2009

Course:	Title:	Instructor:
ES 1	Introduction to Environmental Studies	Freudenburg
ES 100	Environmental Ecology	D'Antonio
ES 149	World Food and Population	Cleveland
ES 169	Tracer Hydrology	Clark
ES 188	Environmental Ethics	McGinnis

Winter 2010

Summer 2009

The Summer Session course offerings for Environmental Studies are still very 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 back towards the end of the Fall quarter.