Instructional Assistants
- Graduate Opportunities
- Undergraduate Opportunities
- Readers
- Summer Opportunities
- Information for IAs
- Teaching Award Recipients
The Division of Biological Sciences appoints Graduate Student Teaching Assistants and Undergraduate Tutors (serving as a Teaching Apprentice) during summer sessions.
Only experienced IAs are eligible to be considered for summer session positions. Prior qualifying experience as an IA in a Biological Sciences class (as evidenced by a passing grade in BISP 195 or BGGN 500), or a previously completed graduate student TA appointment at UC San Diego, is required for consideration for Summer Session positions. Students with no prior qualifying experience are not eligible for consideration for summer session positions. Summer eligibility is also based upon Spring quarter enrollment and student status.
Only graduate students are eligible to assist in upper-division biology lab courses.
Students may not assist in more than one course per summer session; however, students may assist in both session I and session II.Graduate students may apply for teaching assistant positions. Minimum eligibility requirements:
Undergraduates may apply for Undergraduate Tutor positions. Minimum eligibility requirements:
Actual duties for a particular course may vary. Complete descriptions of duties will be provided to selected applicants by the instructor of record for the course. Typical duties include:
Graduate IAs:
Undergraduate IAs:
Performance Evaluations and Standards
Tutors/TAs are evaluated by the instructor of the course and by the students enrolled in the course.
Summer session assignments vary based on the course and associated workload. Typical assignments vary from 15-35 hours per week.
Most of these hours are accrued in the five-week summer session (I or II) and final exam (plus grading) period (see Schedule of Classes). If required, instructors will inform Tutors/TAs of the need to work hours in the pre-session week.
Lower-Division and Upper-Division Lecture Courses: Graduate Teaching Assistants lead two or more discussion sections; Undergraduate Tutors lead one or more sections
Upper-Division Lab Courses: Graduate Teaching Assistants lead one lab section each
BILD 4: IAs lead one or more lab sections each