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College Social Sciences Collegiate Division

About the Department

The Department of Comparative Human Development (CHD) is an interdisciplinary program at the critical edge of thought and research in the social sciences, examining what it means to be human during a contemporary moment marked by rapid social, technological, and ecological change; massive global movements of people and ideas; and wide-ranging forms of inequality. Faculty and students in the Department conduct interdisciplinary, holistic and comparative research and scholarship focused on individual lives within various, changing, and heterogeneous contexts. Drawing on methods and concepts from anthropology, biological and developmental psychology, educational research, sociology, and statistics, Department members are committed to examining humans as simultaneously sociocultural, biological, and psychological beings who change over developmental and historical time. Such perspectives make CHD a unique space for research addressing topics including difference, equality, and power in multicultural societies; the developmental, symbolic and embodied processes involved in learning and socialization; the social shaping of vulnerability and resilience in relation to shifting categories such as gender, race, class, age, sexuality, and ability, among others. Faculty and graduate students conduct research in both US and non-US settings using diverse methods including long-term participant observation, qualitative interviewing, analysis of survey data, experiments, classroom observation, and field research with non-human animals.

Job Summary

The Instructional Assistant assists faculty, other teaching personnel, and program administrations in their work delivering undergraduate education in the Comparative Human Development major and related programs. The Instructional Assistant\'s role comprises a set of responsibilities designed to address the majors\'s curricular needs and may differ each quarter. The role focuses on supporting instruction as a teaching assistant in specific for-credit Comparative Human Development courses or course sequences. Additional duties include assisting undergraduate students in social sciences lab or workshop settings, advising and mentoring undergraduates conducting independent research, grading assignments and exams, and supporting instructors\' use of academic technologies. The Instructional Assistant has experience completing research and academic work in a related field and is equipped to support undergraduate instruction in capacities that range from substantive, pedagogical, methodological, technological, to administrative. The role will be a combination of the responsibilities listed below, and the specific allocation of duties may differ each quarter.

The annual work period is 9.5 months, from September 1 through June 15, and the salary is paid over 12 months, from September through August.

Responsibilities

Assists the instructor of record in an undergraduate Comparative Human Development course or courses by running weekly review and discussion sections as an accompaniment to the scheduled course; holding regularly scheduled office hours; reading and comment on papers, exams, and other assignments and recommend grades for individual assignments; contributing to teaching resources and student materials; coordinating discussion sections, setting up equipment, managing reserve readings and other logistics; meeting regularly with the instructor of record; attending regularly-scheduled sessions of assigned courses and reading all assigned materials.

Provides centralized support for undergraduate academics in the Department of Comparative Human Development.

Leads workshops on research met ods and lab sessions for undergraduate courses that focus on quantitative research in the social sciences.

Manages academic technologies and coordinating technological support for instructor and students in undergraduate Comparative Human Development courses.

Grades assignments, exams, and papers from a variety of undergraduate Comparative Human Development courses.

Meets with students to discuss academics and programming related to the Comparative Human Development major.

Supports instructors\' use of academic technologies.

Meets regularly with instructors of record and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Comparative Human Development to discuss program goals and curriculum.

Attends relevant on-campus training sessions on pedagogy, social science research methods, and academic technology.

Participates regularly in one or more of the University\'s academic workshops, colloquia, or talk series.

Uses general understanding and experience to administer the delivery of services to program participants and/or beneficiaries.

Interacts with faculty, researchers, and staff for committee work or information.

Has a moderate/high level of authority to participate in staff meetings, individual planning meetings, and parent-student staffings.

Helps staff to plan and execute events.