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Department of Anthropology College of Arts and Sciences
One Discipline, Four Fields

A420 Undergraduate Teaching Practicum

Students assist in preparation and implementation of undergraduate courses, especially those involving hands-on laboratory work. Students prepare materials, implement laboratory activities, and maintain educational collections.

  • Students enrolled in A420 do not assist in grading.
  • Students will need to contact individual faculty members directly.

Build your teaching experience while providing assistance to your peers!

Tasks may include all or some of the following:

  • help with course logistics
  • prepare lab sections
  • scan slides
  • participate in weekly discussion sections
  • tutor students
  • assist with review sessions
  • review books for research purposes
  • contribute to a class lecture
  • assist graduate student AI’s
  • and other duties as requested….
  • help formulate attendance questions and read through the answers
  • library tasks (identify, pick up, return films; search library for books, obtain and return)
    Faculty will discuss teaching strategies with the undergraduate interns and provide a mentored learning experience for students enrolled in A420.

Email Laura Scheiber (Send Email) permission to enroll in the class.

The following faculty members are accepting from 1 to 3 undergraduate teaching assistants for their courses.  Interested students should contact faculty directly.

COLL C104 People and Animals
Faculty member: Laura Scheiber (Send Email)

COLL C105 Biology and Culture of Women's Bodies
Faculty member: Virginia Vitzthum (Send Email)  

ANTH A107 Human Origins and Prehistory
Faculty member: Jeanne Sept (Send Email)

ANTH B200 Biological Anthropology
Faculty member: Rika Kaestle (Send Email)

ANTH E101 Ecology and Soceity
Faculty member: Catherine Tucker (Send Email) ***

ANTH E200 Social and Cultural Anthropology
Faculty member: Beth Buggenhagen (Send Email)

ANTH E321 Peoples of Mexico **
Faculty member: Anya Royce (Send Email)

ANTH E381 Family, Work, and Power
Faculty member: Gracia Clark (Send Email)

ANTH P240 Archaeology and the Movies
Faculty member: to be determined, email Laura Scheiber (Send Email)

ANTH P425 Faunal Osteology
Faculty member: Laura Scheiber (Send Email)

** first priority to students who have background in the course topic or who have previously enrolled in the class. *** request for a senior anthropology student with some prior experience or classwork related to sustainability +/ or environmental problems.