Description of Teaching Responsibilities at Syracuse University

I have been both a teaching assistant and instructor of record for the history department at Syracuse University. As a teaching assistant for the history department, I have been responsible for managing student attendance, lecturing in place of the instructor on occasion, and acting as instructor for three discussion sections per week. Discussion sections in the history department are focused on giving students a space to ask questions and review lecture material and to “get hands on with history” via the examination and discussion of primary source material. . Each section is fifty-five minutes and is capped at twenty students. Teaching assistants in the history department are also expected to do the majority if not all of the grading of course assignments.

I have also been instructor of record for several history courses, including HST 122 World History since 1750, HST 200 The Early Modern and Modern Indian Ocean World, and HST 214 African History since 1800. In these courses I function in the same capacity as faculty, designing the course and course materials, giving lectures, and assigning final grades.