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From: sjc@mordred.cs.purdue.edu (Steve Chapin)
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Subject: Re: Who teaches CS classes?
Message-ID: <882@mordred.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: Sun, 19-Oct-86 20:47:28 EDT
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In article <922@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>, andy@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Andy Freeman) writes:
> Who actually teaches CS classes at other schools?  How are
> graduate students supported?
> 

Here at purdue it works (vaguely) like this:

MS students teach intro classes and some medium-level classes.
Professors teach some medium-level and advanced level classes.
PhD students research.

All references to classes mean undergrad classes.

This works out fairly well, since people are not considered PhD students
until we pass our qualifiers (which I haven't yet; taking them next year).
So, most of the service/intro classes are taught by the rather transient
group of MS students, and the future PhD students.  By the time a student
passes quals, he/she has usually already fulfilled any teaching requirement
for the degree.  At that time, s/he picks up a major professor and usually
a research project...

sc

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