Teaching/Writing

TA/AI Resources

• University Graduate Student Instructor Program

• ASPECTS: Advancing Students' Professional Excellence with Certificates in Teaching Series

• Undergraduate Writing Center
• Office of Graduate Studies - Student Employment
• OGS - TA/AI Resources
• University Human Resources - New Employee Orientation
• Departmental faculty-TA contract (doc)
• Guideline for grading papers (doc)
• Slides from Dr Rob Crosnoe's TA advice & discussion session (ppt)
• For tuition bill waivers, go to https://utdirect.utexas.edu/acct/fb/waivers/.

Resource Materials

• ASA teaching and academic resources

Course Organization

• Prentice-Hall syllabus builder guided tour

Textbooks

• Macmillan Press
• Sociosite

Data to Use for Class Activities

• The data resources page of this site has links to data banks for raw and sorted data.

Writing

• Dissertation listserv and resources
• Sample dissertation proposal
• NSF proposal writing guide
• UT Graduate Student Writing Resuorces
• Elements of Style
• Guide for Writing Research Papers
• Merriam Webster Dictionary

Articles on Teaching

• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Teaching Sociology