Graduate students in our program typically gain different kinds of teaching experience as a vital dimension of their training. During their third year, all graduate students teach in Department’s French language instruction program as the primary instructor of their own section of a beginning-level course.
After teaching French for two semesters, graduate students pursue different teaching options, depending on what is available in a given year: some teach as an assistant in a large lecture course; some teach alongside an experienced professor in a small literature seminar; some might design a syllabus to team-teach in partnership with a professor through Yale’s Associates in Teaching Program.
