Audio Visual Services
UCSD Media Services provides video players and projectors, video cameras, 16mm projectors, overhead slide projectors, tape players, phonographs, and PA systems on a recharge basis. The Media Teaching Lab, located in the Media Center, is a full video and 16mm-film production facility. It is available, free of charge, to any student with a media card enrolled in a film or video production class or to any graduate student using film or video as part of their work toward a degree. Films and videotapes are maintained in the Media Center library. For reservations and additional information, call (858) 534-5784 or go online at http://mediacenter.ucsd.edu
Career Services
CSC helps UCSD graduate students fulfill their career goals through a variety of services and resources including career advising, job listings and job fairs, reference materials, and career consultants. Electronic resources include the Center's Online Career Lab where students can access career information on the internet and CSC's website at the . CSC also sponsors workshops designed especially for graduate students on topics such as alternative careers for Ph.D.'s, job talks, CV writing, interviewing, and networking. UCSD Career Services is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and is located on Library Walk.
Center for Teaching Development (CTD)
In collaboration with academic departments, the Teaching Assistant Development Program (TADP) of CTD provides training aimed primarily at improving the teaching skills of new teaching assistants (TAs). Services include an orientation before classes begin, thematic and discipline-specific workshops, classroom observations, student questionnaires, optional videotaping, and confidential consultation. CTD also publishes the Graduate Teaching Assistant Handbook which provides information about the variety of tasks and responsibilities involved in the teaching assistantship as well as policies and procedures pertaining to this position.
The International Teaching Assistant Language Program (ITALP) provides screening and evaluation of the English language skills of international TAs. International graduate students who do not have the requisite skills for classroom teaching will receive training in ESL classes offered by the center. For additional information please contact CTD at (858) 534-6767 or visit the .
Departmental Teaching Assistant Advising
Departments and programs assume primary responsibility for training their TAs and are expected to ensure that new TAs receive training in the campus-wide TA Development Program and/or an equivalent departmental program. Each department and program appoints a faculty adviser who assumes responsibility for TA matters for a two-year period. The faculty adviser oversees training activities and evaluations, oversees the Senior TA (if applicable) and collaborates with the Director of CTD on TA training matters.
Graduate Enrichment Program (GEP)
The Graduate Enrichment Program is a student development program designed to address some of the more distinctive and specific needs of graduate students. The focus is on activities that are automatically associated with the pursuit of a graduate degree. Provisions are made for individual and group tutoring, comprehensive examination preparation, remedial assistance, and special student-run seminars. For further information, call OGS, (858) 534-3678.