Your 2023 Virtual Orientation Binder
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Important Links for New Graduate Students (bookmark it!)
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Your Department's Grad Resources Page (bookmark it!) including:
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Degree Checklists
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Degree Requirements
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Program Handbook
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Description of Duties forms
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Eligibility Checklist (required each quarter, except summer, for employment or fellowship)
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and more...
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- Professional Development program, including a calendar of workshops: GradPathways
- Becoming a California Resident - Domestic nonresidents are expected to become California residents before the start of their second year - Make sure to start collecting evidence now. (International Students may not become residents for tuition purposes)
- UC Davis Campus Map - Find out how to get to orientation and your classes
- Presentation slides from orientation [pdf]
- When in doubt, ask the LangLit Staff
Orientations Schedule 2023
*Please note that any references to “New” TAs/AIs means new to teaching at UC Davis (even if you’ve had previous teaching experience elsewhere)
International Graduate Student Orientation (required for new international students)
https://siss.ucdavis.edu/orientation-graduate-and-professional-students
Graduate Student Orientation
Orientation by the Office of Graduate Studies register here https://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/current-students/newly-admitted-students/orientation.
Various Dates: Sexual Violence Prevention training
All new students must complete this training. See https://sexualviolence.ucdavis.edu/graduate-and-professional-student-education-requirements to select a date.
Various Dates: Test of Oral English Proficiency (TOEP) / SPEAK Test – For international graduate students / TAs. See http://iae.ucdavis.edu/graduate/index.html for information on who must take it and how to sign up.
Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE) TA Training
Register online at http://cetl.ucdavis.edu/courses-and-events/ta-orientation.html (required for new TAs/AIs). Two courses must be completed online prior to this in-person training. Consult your registration confirmation email for time & location of the training
Tue, SEP 26: Comparative Literature Department Orientation
Tuesday, 9/26/23: Comparative Literature Graduate Student Orientation and Departmental Welcome Reception 912 (or 822) Sproul Hall
Schedule
- 9:00AM: Coffee and pastries: all new COM Grad Students invited
- 9:15AM: Welcome by Cheri Ross (Chair and Graduate Teaching Supervisor); Introductions
- 9:30-10:30: Workshop led by Cheri Ross: Beginning to teach in COM 5-7 (required for all new COM 5-7 and HUM 1 teaching assistants—Alicia Manno, Kelly Kagawa, Dill Ma, Meher Gandhi--who will also take COM 392, TA Pedagogy Workshop (2 units), starting Monday 10/3 12:10PM)
- 10:30AM: Break
- 10:50-12:30: Advising session with Michael Subialka for all incoming MA students
- 12:30-1:30: Lunch (all orientation participants invited)
- 1:30-3:00PM: Advising session with Michael Subialka for all incoming PhD students
- 3:30-5PM: Reception for COM faculty and graduate students (Sproul Hall Courtyard)
Wed, SEP 27 - Classes begin!