Academic Student Employment
The College of Environmental Design’s departments often have graduate student instructor/teaching assistant (TA/GSI) positions available. We encourage applications from students who have already taken the course or related courses in the relevant subject area.
TA/GSI Positions
TA/GSI applicants must meet Graduate Division’s minimum requirements and criteria:
- Students must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 units. (Note: summer GSI, GSR, AI-GS, reader or tutor appointments do not require enrollment and do not pay fee remissions.)
- Minimum 3.0 GPA required for holding an academic appointment.
- Students must be making satisfactory degree progress.
- All first-time ASEs must attend the New ASE Orientation sponsored by the campus Labor Relations Office during the semester of their appointment. If the ASE fails to attend, he or she is ineligible for future appointments until this requirement is satisfied.
- GSIs who do not speak English as a native language, must pass the English oral proficiency test before being appointed. Please refer to the GSI Teaching & Resource Center for more information. Please note that anyone needing to be tested for a summer appointment must take the test no later than the spring semester prior to the first summer appointment. Please complete the Language Proficiency Questionnaire no later than March 1.
New GSIs are required to fulfill the following:
- Attend the Teaching Conference for First-Time GSIs (or the Teaching Conference for First-Time International GSIs if applicable) prior to beginning to teach. The conference is offered on the Friday before classes begin in the fall and spring semesters and in early to mid-June in the summer.
- Complete the GSI Professional Standards and Ethics Online Course. New GSIs must complete the online course Professional Standards and Ethics for GSIs before interacting with students (in person or online) in their role as an instructor.
- Enroll in and complete a 300-level semester-long pedagogical seminar on teaching. If the pedagogical seminar is outside of the college’s departments, the course must be approved by the department’s GSAO. Since a pedagogy course is not offered in the College of Environmental Design in the summer, students must take the CED course in a prior semester
Reader Positions
The College of Environmental Design’s departments often have reader positions for selected courses available each semester. Undergraduate or graduate students who have taken departmental courses and have done well in them are encouraged to apply. Please read all of the information below before applying.
Readers must meet Graduate Division’s minimum qualifications:
- Minimum 3.0 GPA.
- May not have more than two incomplete grades in upper division and graduate courses on the transcript.
- Must be in good academic standing (i.e., may not be on academic probation or have had their degree candidacy lapse) and be clear of certain disciplinary probations based on the Code of Student Conduct.
- Must have taken and received at least a B grade in the course or another course equivalent to the one in which they are serving.
- Must be UC students who are registered and enrolled in at least 12 units of coursework during the semester in which they are serving as a reader.
- Must attend the New ASE Orientation sponsored by the Office of Labor Relations for the semester of the appointment, if this readership is the student’s first ASE assignment.
TA/Reader Positions
| DEPARTMENT | POSITION | APPLICATION |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | GSI/Reader | Apply |
City & Regional Planning | GSI/Reader | Apply |
| Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning | GSI/Reader | Apply |
Environmental Design/MUD/SED | GSI/Reader | Apply |
| MRED+D | GSI/Reader | Apply |
| embARC Summer Design Academy (many summer positions available) | TA/UCS2 Job description | Apply |
| DISC Summer Program (Design + Innovation for Sustainable Cities) | TA/UCS2 Job Description | Apply |
| Summer Institute (INARCH, INCITY, INLAND) (several positions available) | TA/UCS2 Job Description | Apply |