H1.4 Undergraduate Students

Updated: May 18th, 2012

Undergraduate students cannot be appointed as GSRs. Undergraduate students may be appointed as Readers and Tutors. Generally, undergraduate students may not be appointed as GSIs. Exceptions may be approved if a department is not able to recruit any qualified graduate students (including graduate students in other departments) or hire a lecturer to fill an essential GSI position. Hiring units in the College of Letters and Science must follow the college’s procedures in hiring an undergraduate as a GSI.  Any other hiring units must submit a written request of exception to Graduate Division.

Undergraduate candidates for GSI positions must:

1. be registered in the semester in which they are teaching;

2. be enrolled in no fewer than 15 units of course work;

3. have upper division status when they begin teaching;

4. have an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher; and

5. have previously taken the course for which they are being appointed, its equivalent, or a more advanced course, with a grade of A- or better.

Like graduate student GSI appointees, undergraduate appointees who do not speak English as a native language must satisfy the English Language Proficiency requirement before they can teach. See the GSI Teaching and Resource Center for more information. They must also pass the online course on Professional Standards and Ethics in their first semester of teaching.

All departments have a responsibility to provide on-going mentoring and oversight for undergraduates who teach in their units. During the semester in which they are teaching, undergraduate GSIs must be enrolled in a 300-level course or the equivalent, for purposes of training.  And if the GSIship is their first appointment, students must also attend 1) the New ASE Orientation, 2) the Teaching Conference for first-time GSI’s, and 3) complete the online Professional Standards and Ethics Course.

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