Groups of Teaching Assistants are assigned to a specific professor's large, introductory lecture course each semester. Their duties are to attend the lectures, lead three discussion sections per week, and grade the work of the students in those sections. In addition, a reimbursement check from The University of Texas equivalent to nine hours' tuition and mandatory fees will be available shortly after the beginning of the semester to students appointed as TAs for at least twenty hours per week. TAs must take the teaching technique course, ARH 398T, during the first term of employment and normally do not serve as Teaching Assistants for more than four long semesters. Each semester the Art History faculty assigns selected graduate students as graders in large survey and upper-division classes.
Graders normally work three to six hours per week.
The number of grader positions and the salary amounts vary each year. All student employees must be in good standing in the Graduate School and have no incomplete grades. Teaching Assistants and Assistant Instructors must be registered for nine semester hours of coursework.