Teaching Fellowships
Graduate
students are encouraged to teach beginning in the third year of
the program. Options include teaching a
section of an undergraduate language course or leading a discussion
section of a literature course taught by a
professor. Teaching opportunities in the Core Program and other
departments are also available. Harvard provides its
teaching fellows with state-of-the-art classroom resources, guidance,
and regular evaluations by permanent faculty
members. Such ample teaching opportunities reflect a departmental
philosophy of nurturing strong candidates for the academic job
market. Any graduate student wishing to teach a language course
(lettered or numbered courses under 70) must take Romance Languages
200. Graduate students with previous teaching experience who have
already taken a course in pedagogy through another degree program
may submit a dossier including the syllabus, and papers or projects
done for the course. After considering the dossier, the Director
of Language Programs will choose one of three options in discussion
with the student: waiving the Romance Languages 200 requirement;
doing some of the work for the course as an independent project
in addition to the 16 courses required for the Ph.D.; or enrolling
in Romance Languages 200.
[Note: from The GSAS Handbook]
Last updated on September 18, 2007