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Current Spanish Graduate Students - Graduate HandbookBienvenidos The faculty and staff of our department are pleased that you have chosen to pursue your graduate studies in Spanish with us. In order to make your graduate career at Auburn University more pleasant and as "problem-free" as possible, we have written the following Handbook. We hope it will serve as a useful guide throughout your stay here. If, after reading this booklet, you still have unanswered questions, do not hesitate to contact the Graduate Director. As a graduate student, your advisor will be Dr. Jana Gutiérrez. Please see her for matters pertaining to course requirements, comprehensive exams, graduate school deadlines and the like. If you are also a teaching assistant, Dr. Gilda Socarrás, Coordinator of the Graduate Teaching Assistantship program, will be working closely with you concerning your teaching assignments. Please refer to her any questions concerning this aspect of your graduate program. Statement from the Graduate DirectorIt is my pleasure and responsibility to administer and direct the academic aspects of your program. Either during the one-week registration period that is scheduled during the semester prior to the one for which you plan to enroll or during the one-day registration period immediately preceding the commencement of classes, I will be available to make appointments with you to discuss the various course offerings.
It is our hope and purpose, in offering you this multifaceted graduate program, that you will have a useful, enjoyable, and challenging academic experience and that, upon the conferral of your Master's degree, you will be well prepared to pursue the career of your choice. spgrad@auburn.eduToday we are inaugurating a new e-mail address: spgrad@auburn.edu. This address will be used to handle e-mail correspondence concerning the Spanish Graduate Program, including Prospective Students, Applicants, Current Students; questions about such issues as: registration, plan of study, thesis planning, comprehensive exams, foreign language requirement, incompletes, etc. Of course you should direct specific questions to individual Spanish faculty concerning their own areas of research, courses, etc. In this manner we hope to respond to your questions more efficiently and keep track of similar issues so that we can continue to improve our program. Jana Gutiérrez Fax: (334) 844-6378 Statement from the Coordinator of Teaching AssistantsAs Coordinator of the Graduate Teaching Assistants and First-Year Spanish Program, I would like to invite qualified candidates who have not already done so to apply for a teaching assistantship during their graduate work in Spanish. Teaching assistants are provided with ample materials, training, and continued guidance in order to perform their teaching duties efficiently and well. There is typically a two-day orientation workshop where incoming graduate teaching assistants have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the textbook and instructional methodologies incorporated in the Elementary Spanish classroom here at Auburn University. The graduate teaching assistants and the Coordinator work together throughout the semester solving problems, providing mutual aid, and profiting from each other's experiences. Since teaching does require a considerable amount of time for outside preparation, graduate students should take no more than three courses during a semester in which they teach a three-hour course. This is in addition to enrollment in the mandatory one-credit FLSP 7090, Introduction to College-Level Spanish Teaching, during the training period. During the training year, all Graduate Teaching Assistants will work with a mentor who teaches FLSP 1010 and/or 1020. While working with this mentor, the Graduate Teaching Assistant will have the following duties: a) daily observations of his/her mentor's class; b) weekly mini-lessons to develop teaching skills; c) tutoring of Elementary Spanish students at the Foreign Languages Multimedia Center; and d) weekly meetings with his/her mentor to go over lesson plans and grading of assignments. In addition to their teaching duties, each Graduate Teaching Assistants will work (four hours a week) with a member of the Spanish faculty as an aide in teaching and/or research projects. If you have any questions about the specific responsibilities involved in becoming a graduate teaching assistant, please call me at (334) 844-6368 or stop by my office in 6020 Haley Center. You may also contact me via e-mail at socargm@auburn.edu. 
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