There are three types of teaching assistants engaged at the School: TAs, STAs, and UTAs:  

• TAs
  Full-time Teaching Assistantships (TAs) are doctoral-level appointments that provide up to 20 hours per week of teaching-related activity. When a student serves as a TA for a semester, their financial support for that semester is tied to the TA appointment. TAs are normally assigned to large service courses. The School works with each of the doctoral programs to determine where the TAs will be deployed each academic year. Note that students will generally work about 20 hours per week but will occasionally be asked to work more than that in a given week. On the few occasions when that happens, students and instructors should plan for the TA to work an equivalent number of hours less during the preceding or following week.
• STAs
  Supplementary Teaching Assistants (STAs) are graduate-level teaching assistant positions that provide up to 10 hours per week of teaching support to instructors approved for such support.
• UTAs
  Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) are undergraduate-level teaching assistant positions that provide up to 10 hours per week of teaching support to instructors approved for such support.

Teaching Assistantship Opportunities

Opportunities for current students to serve as graduate-level Supplemental Teaching Assistants (STAs) and Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) at the School of Public Health are listed in Workday. See How to Search for Student Job Opportunities for further information. Once you arrive on the job listing page, search for "School of Public Health" in the search bar.

Workday at Brown

Current students interested in public health-specific research assistantships or internships, as well as graduating students seeking postgraduate fellowships and jobs should visit the SPH Career Portal.

Teaching Assistant Expectations

Instructors are asked to define the responsibilities and the number of hours per week expected of each teaching assistant (TA, STA, UTA). 

• Instructors and students must arrange to meet to review expectations, roles, responsibilities, etc. 
• We advise that students serving as STAs meet regularly with the primary instructor to ensure they are meeting expectations and working the agreed-upon weekly hours, in addition to communicating about course-related issues. 
• If students find that their course responsibilities are exceeding the agreed upon hours or the communicated expectations, they should communicate this to the instructor, their GPD, or the Associate Dean for Education.

Teaching Assistant Training

All teaching assistants (TAs, STAs and UTAs) are required to complete the relevant Sheridan Center orientation.