Middle East: Research and Teaching
Teaching Opportunities
Graduate students who have completed their coursework may serve as teaching assistants for undergraduate history courses and for appropriate courses in the Civilizations sequences. More advanced students may apply to lead their own sections of Civ or to design and teach their own undergraduate courses in the History Department (under the von Holst program) or in the International Studies Concentration (under the Prize Lectureship program). Advanced graduate students can also apply to be preceptors in the History Department, the Committee on International Relations, or the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS). Students who are highly proficient in a Middle Eastern language (like Arabic, Hebrew, or Persian) sometimes serve as teaching assistants for language instruction courses at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
History graduate students at the University of Chicago have also received temporary teaching appointments at other institutions in the Chicago area, such as Chicago State University, Columbia College, DePaul University, Richard J. Daley College, North Central College, and the Graham School of General Studies.