Teaching Assistant (Title Code 2310)

  • No experience necessary
  • 3.0 GPA
  • Enrolled in at least 12 units
  • 375 course enrollment
  • Not to exceed 12 quarters of all ASE titles combine
  • Test of Oral Proficiency (TOP) requirement (international students only)

Teaching Associate (Title Code 1506)

  • Master’s degree or has completed at least 36 units of graduate coursework (not including courses 375 or 495)
  • Has at least one academic year (three academic quarters or two semesters) of UCLA TA experience (or approved collegiate teaching experience at a comparable institution)12
  • 3.0 GPA
  • Enrolled in at least 12 units
  • 375 course enrollment
  • Not to exceed 12 quarters of all ASE titles combine
  • TOP requirement (international students only)

Teaching Fellow (Title Code 2300)

  • Advanced course assistants who perform the same duties as teaching associates
  • Formally advanced to doctoral candidacy
  • Demonstrated professional maturity and excellence as a scholar and teacher
  • Two academic years (six academic quarters or four semesters) of UCLA TA experience (or approved teaching experience at a comparable institution)34
  • May provide the entire instruction of a lower division course under the general supervision of the regular faculty member in charge of the course
  • 3.0 GPA
  • Enrolled in at least 12 units
  • 375 course enrollment
  • Not to exceed 12 quarters of all ASE titles combine
  • TOP requirement (international students only)

Readers (Title Code 2850)

  • Readers must have earned at least a B in the course for which they are reading
  • Undergraduates may serve as readers for upper-division courses in which they have earned at least a “B” grade
  • Undergraduates may NOT read for graduate courses
  • Graduate students may NOT read for graduate-level courses (see Special Reader category)

Special Readers (Title Code 2852)

  • An advanced graduate student who assists the faculty member who is teaching the course with the reading and grading of students’ papers and exams in upper-division and graduate courses
  • Must have earned at least a B+ in the course for which they are reading
  • must be approved by the Dean of the Graduate Division. Such courses should be upper-division or graduate level, be required of all or a large number of majors, and have large enrollments and complex homework assignments.

Tutors/Remedial Tutors (Title Code 2860/2289)

  • The primary duty of appointees in this title is individual or small group review instruction related to, but not required in, specific courses
  • The duty is performed under the supervision of faculty “instructors of record” or designated staff members who are vested with the sole and final responsibility for course content, work assignments, performance evaluations, and grading in the assigned course and its related tutoring
  • Tutors are NOT to be used as TAs
  • 3.0 GPA
  • Enrolled in at least 12 units
  • Not to exceed 12 quarters of all ASE titles combine