Teaching is not required during the first two years of study. Only under the most unusual circumstances is a student allowed to teach before the third year of study. As noted in the acceptance letters NELC students receive, students are expected to earn their stipends in the form of teaching fellowships in their third and fourth years. These fellowships begin in the fall term of the third year and extend through the spring term of the fourth year at a rate of two sections (2/5) per term. The department will assist the student in securing teaching fellowships, but students are required to make every effort to find suitable teaching arrangements, whether in NELC or in other departments or programs. Priority for teaching fellow positions in NELC is given to students in their third and fourth years of graduate study.
All students who are planning to serve as teaching fellows in any language course are required to enroll in Linguistics 200, a course in language pedagogy. This course may be taken SAT/UNSAT. Additional resources for teaching fellows may be found at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.
