Graduate Programs
Graduate Assistants
The department administers sixteen graduate teaching assistantships and frequently has additional research assistantships available. Assistantships include a stipend (currently $12,000 for nine months), a tuition waiver for nine credits per semester, three credits in the summer, and a health insurance plan (50% of the premiums are covered by the assistantship). Assistantships are awarded on a yearly basis. The assistantship will be renewed if performance in the assistantship is satisfactory and if the student is making satisfactory academic progress. Full time masters students are eligible for two years of funding maximum; full time I.Ph.D. students are eligible for three years of funding and may petition for additional funding up to a maximum of five years total.
Some graduate assistants may teach courses in Interpersonal Communication, Public Communication, Writing for the Mass Media, or Oral Communication of Literature. Others may assist faculty Introduction to Mass Communication, Radio News, Techniques of Video Production, or Advanced Electronic Reporting and Production courses. Teaching assistants are part of a carefully supervised program and are helped to develop interpersonal and instructional skills that prove useful in later professional careers. Our teaching assistants receive continual instruction in pedagogical practice and theory, accumulating over 45 hours of teacher training and mentoring across two years.
Normally, assistantship applications are considered only after the candidate has submitted all application materials and has been accepted into the program.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship Application
Graduate Assistants for 2007-2008
- Brad Bosse
- Jessica Brophy
- Samantha Depoy
- Iryna Hlushakova
- Michael Jandreau
- Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan
- Christina Leblanc
- Katharine ReQua
- Imke Schessler-Jandreau
- Julie Ann Scott
- Shane Perry
- Emma Pope-Welch
- Moshe Machlev
- Kristen Riley
- Scott Tulloch
- Francis Waldron
- Kerri Watson
