These are courses that are often assigned to E3B students for TA-ships. Typically, TA-ships in E3B require the student to attend lectures, hold office hours, and manage the course on Courseworks (including sending announcements and reminders, managing assignments, entering grades, etc). TA-ships may also come with other responsibilities and opportunities, such as the need to drive for field trips, or the opportunity to give a lecture

The table below indicates some of these additional responsibilities. 

• Driving: whether the course requires the TA to drive

• Section: whether the TA is required to teach section (typically 1 hour/week, completely student-led)

• Lecture: whether there is an opportunity for the the TA to give lectures in the course

• Hours/Week: Non-grading hours required by the course (i.e. for attending lectures/sections, field trips, holding office hours, etc.)

• Grading: How heavy the grading load is

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For hours/week and grading, we use the following system:

• Low: 1-2 hours/week

• Medium: 3-5 hours/week

• High: 5+ hours/week

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The hardship score is determined by a combination of the above factors, and is a guideline the students created to help allocate TA-ships in a way that distributes high- and low- workload courses among the students as evenly as possible.

• Level I: low hardship; few hours per week

• Level II: medium hardship; reasonable amount of hours per week

• Level III: high hardship; course often exceeds maximum working hours 

In general, we believe that PhD students on fellowship should:

• Only be assigned to one "Level III" hardship course; they can request to TA more if they desire

• Should be assigned a maximum of two "Level I" hardship courses