Graduate Study: Teaching Requirements
The faculty regard teaching experience as an integral part of the graduate training program in Linguistics. All students are required to serve as Teaching Fellows for a minimum of two terms, usually beginning in the first semester of the third year. In addition, students must complete two additional terms of assistantship. These may either be as a Teaching Fellow, or through participation in externally supported, supervised research as a Research Fellow. Research assistantships may be provided by the Linguistics faculty and by various Yale and Yale-affiliated units. Before accepting a research assistantship in fulfillment of this requirement, students must receive approval from the Director of Graduate Studies. To be approved, a Research Assistantship must meet the following criteria:
- It must be supervised by a Linguistics department faculty member or a faculty member from an affiliated unit, such as Haskins Laboratories or the Yale School of Medicine.
- It must provide research experience that complements the student's academic plan of study.
- It must provide at least 10 hours of experience per week.
If an approved Research Assistantship is accepted which does not provide a stipend equal to the standard departmental stipend, a University Fellowship will be provided to augment the stipend up so as to bring it up to the departmental standard.
