ES Teaching Assistants

Environmental Studies Call for TA Applications
(2008-09) Applications are NOW Available! For primary consideration completed applications should be submitted no later than May 23, 2008.

Download the Environmental Studies Program's Teaching Assistant Handbook

Orientation is required by Graduate Division for all new TAs and Readers, but also because it fulfills one of the requirements for the Certificate in College and University Teaching as announced by the Graduate Division two years ago. See 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: 2008-2009 TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS For the ES Program

The Environmental Studies Program is now accepting Applications for Teaching Assistantships for the 2008-2009 academic year.  For primary consideration, apply by Friday, May 23, 2008.  The TA application is available for download as a .PDF file (you may enter you information within the form on your computer and then print it out!).

It is also available in hard copy format at the Environmental Studies Program Office in Bren Hall, Rm 4312. 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%.

Completed applications should be returned to the ES Main Office, Bren Hall 4312.

Questions about TA opportunities within the Environmental Studies Program should be directed to Cheryl Hutton at 893-3715 or hutton@es.ucsb.edu

The following list contains the proposed ES courses for the 2008-2009 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 2008

Course:	Title:	Instructor:
ES 1	Introduction to Environmental Studies	Freudenburg
ES 100	Environmental Ecology	Berry
ES 104	People, Poverty & Environment	Stonich
ES 119	Ecology & Management of CA Wildlands	D'Antonio
ES 149	World Food and Population	Cleveland
ES 168	Aqueous Transport of Pollutants	Clark
ES 188	Environmental Ethics	McGinnis

Course:	Title:	Instructor:
ES 2	Introduction to Environmental Science	Keller/Manalis
ES 15	Chemistry of the Environment	Clark
ES 106	Critical Thinking & Env. Argument	Freudenburg
ES 115	Energy and the Environment	Manalis
ES 166BT	Biotechnology, Food, and Agriculture	Cleveland
ES 171	Ecosystem Processes	Schimel

Course:	Title:	Instructor:
ES 3	Intro. to Cultural and Social Environment	Graves
ES 25	Quantitative Thinking in Env. Studies	Manalis
ES 128	Ecological Constraints in Restoration	D'Antonio
ES 144	Rivers	Keller

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.