One major responsibility as a chemistry graduate student is to teach undergraduate labs and/or discussion sessions. The chemistry department at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA. presented a unique opportunity for its graduate students as ‘Burn Teaching Fellowship’. The fellowship is awarded to one graduate student each semester who is interested in pursuing undergraduate level teaching as a fulltime career. I was awarded with the fellowship for the Spring 2016 semester for ‘Introduction to Organic Chemistry’ (Chem 322A) class. As a part of it I was assigned a mentor, Dr. Thomas Bertolini, who is also the course instructor for that class. Some of the key responsibilities included lecturing 25% of the course, setting 20% of each exam and holding discussion sessions. It was a great experience for me who wanted to get acquainted with the responsibilities of a full time course instructor.

Burg Teaching Fellowship at USC: An opportunity for graduate students to co-teach a class under the mentorship of the course instructor

252nd National Meeting (2016)

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