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AEM 6980 Supervised Graduate Teaching Experience

Fall or spring. 1–4 credits; max. 4 credits during graduate program. Prerequisite: graduate standing; permission of instructor. Undergraduates should enroll in AEM 4980. Students must register using independent study form (available in undergraduate program office in Warren Hall). S–U or letter grades. Staff.

Designed to give graduate students teaching experience through involvement in planning and teaching courses under the supervision of departmental faculty members. The experience may include leading discussion sections, preparing, assisting in, or teaching lectures and laboratories, and tutoring. Students are expected to actually teach at least one hour per week for each credit awarded. Students may not receive both pay and credit for the same hours of preparation and teaching.