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The Religious Studies Department offers, on a competitive basis, several types of assistantships. All types of assistantships include a full waiver of tuition. All students granted an assistantship, whether residents or nonresidents, pay only the flat fee mentioned above.
In addition, assistants receive a stipend of $3,000 or more per semester. Assuming satisfactory performance, students admitted with assistantships can usually expect to receive four semesters of stipend support. Support past this time is possible but should not be expected.
All types of assistants must register for at least 18 hours of graduate level credit each semester. These 18 hours should include at least 3 hours of Rels 8960, Research Assistantship. Students who receive an assistantship for the summer term must register for 12 hours during the summer semester. While the specific tasks asked of assistants vary somewhat from year to year, what follows should provide some sense of what an assistant might expect to do:
There is no special application form. Unless a student asks not to be considered for an assistantship, all those newly accepted into the program are considered. Students must be enrolled in classes full time (18 graduate level credit hours) and be in residence to receive an assistantship.
The department is forced to make difficult decisions and cannot provide assistance to all those who deserve it. For those applying to the program, assistantship decisions are based on the materials in the admission file and the procedure is similar to the one described under "Admission." For students in the program, factors such as GPA, progress towards the degree, and the professors' views of the academic ability of the applicant are considered.
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Only a very limited number of RELS 2001 sections are offered during the summer. We recognize that there are many talented graduate student instructors who may wish to teach during the summer, and there may be more instructors than sections. Summer teaching assignments will be made according to the three factors listed below. No teaching assignments will be made to students whose GPA falls below 3.2 (where GPA includes all graduate-level letter-graded courses). The compressed teaching schedule in the summer makes instruction especially challenging, so graduate students who have taught RELS 2001 at least once will be considered for teaching positions before students who have not taught the course before are considered.