Teaching Opportunities and Guidelines

Teaching Opportunities and Guidelines for Master's Students

Teaching fellows may not be in a peer-to-peer relationship with their students. Consequently, teaching fellows may not both take and teach the same course in a semester; MTS and MDiv teaching fellows cannot grade master’s or doctoral students in a course; and MTS and MDiv students are not eligible to be teaching fellows for courses with an HDS number or paid for by HDS unless there is a section strictly limited to undergraduate students.

First-year MTS and MDiv students are ordinarily not eligible for teaching appointment in undergraduate courses in FAS.

Each section (or “fifth”) taught counts as the equivalent of one course; the total course load may not exceed five courses for the term without permission of the associate dean for faculty and academic affairs. Students cannot be appointed as a teaching fellow in FAS without the approval of HDS. Students should discuss their teaching plans with the graduate program coordinator at the Committee on the Study of Religion as soon as possible.

With the permission of the associate dean for faculty and academic affairs, ThM students may be eligible to teach in undergraduate courses during their first year of study.

MTS, MDiv, and ThM students must obtain the approval of the professor of the course, their advisor, and the associate dean for faculty and academic affairs prior to their appointment being finalized. FAS will not appoint HDS students without explicit approval of the HDS associate dean for faculty and academic affairs.

Teaching in any particular term does not alter the number of courses for credit needed to fulfill enrollment status, degree requirements, or financial aid eligibility.