Funding
Graduate Student Assistantships
Besides scholarships and fellowships, the
Psychology Department offers three types of assistantships
for students in the doctoral program. Departmental Assistantships
(DAs) generally involve activities that support faculty
and TAs in the teaching of their undergraduate courses,
e.g., grading and proctoring exams. Teaching Assistantships
(TAs) involve actual classroom instruction, most commonly
the teaching of PSY 2012: Introductory Psychology, or a
Laboratory course. Social Psychology students also teach
undergraduate sections of Social Psychology. Research Assistantships
(RAs) involve laboratory work, running subjects, analyzing
data, designing experiments, etc. Assistantships typically
require 10 - 20 hours of work per week, and funding can
be provided by either the department or by individual faculty
grants. Currently 100% of the Social Psychology graduate
students are funded through one of the above assistantships.
