Appointments are for one quarter, two quarters, or an entire year.
See your department for a letter of exception form. In no case will a period longer than six years be authorized. These hours include all time spent in preparation, classroom and laboratory teaching, office consultation, and reading student papers. A teaching assistant is not responsible for the instructional content of a course, for selection of student assignments, for planning of examinations, or for determining the term grade for students. Neither is the TA to be assigned responsibility for instructing the entire enrollment of a course or for providing the entire instruction of a group of students enrolled in a course.