Teaching Fellowships The Department offers a number of University Teaching Fellowships each year which grant full tuition waivers along with a stipend (2008-09: $18,000) for living expenses. These fellowships are designed for students with an outstanding undergraduate record who intend to become university teachers and who desire to develop their teaching skills with the help of the DePaul faculty. We admit five to six students into our program each year as Teaching Fellows and expect them to complete their graduate work in five to six years. Students generally take 27 quarter-long courses in the history of philosophy before beginning work on their dissertation. Course work is supplemented by informal reading groups, a Graduate Seminar, a Faculty Research Seminar, and a Visiting Scholar series. As a result of our emphasis on close reading and guided research, many of our advanced students have had success getting their work published or presented at national meetings. Most of our students also have foreign study experience, either through DePaul’s graduate student foreign study program or through the Fulbright, DAAD, von Humboldt, or Chateaubriand fellowship programs. Many also either work with or teach in DePaul's Institute for Business and Professional Ethics or the Women's and Gender Studies Program . All our Teaching Fellows work with a faculty mentor during their first two years and then assume responsibility for teaching courses on their own during their remaining years. Students participate in a year-long Teaching Practicum, beginning at the end of their second year and continuing through their third year, in order to prepare them for teaching and are then reviewed by full-time faculty each year they teach. Teaching Fellows regularly teach a variety of courses including Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Theory, and Business Ethics. Incoming Teaching Fellows for 2007-08 The following students, selected from over 150 applicants, were awarded Teaching Fellowships commencing in the 2007-08 academic year: Kieran Aarons (MA University of Western Ontario) Genevra Csipkay-Brehm (BA University of Oregon) Don Deere (BA Cornell University) William Meyrowitz (BA Vassar College) Rohan Sikri (BA Middlebury College) Floyd Wright (BA Seattle University) Study Abroad Option Students may petition the Graduate Affairs Committee at the time of the annual student review to be considered for the study abroad option for the following year. This petition consists of a letter sent to the Graduate Affairs Committee detailing how the student would spend their time abroad, how it would contribute to their course of study, what language work is being done to prepare for study abroad, and how the Teaching Practicum requirement for their second year will be met. If accepted by the committee to exercise this option, the student would spend the Spring quarter of their second year studying abroad. Students accepted for the study abroad option are strongly encouraged to prolong their stay abroad over the summer, where possible applying for a grant for language study (grant applications will need to be made well in advance). Students must study in a country where they will work in a language that helps them meet their language requirements. Students who already demonstrate considerable proficiency in the foreign language would be allowed to take philosophy courses from the local university.  Time Sequence for Teaching Fellows YEAR ONE Student takes 9 courses (Maximum Aid: Stipend + 9 waivers from Department) Autumn Student registers for three courses. Winter Two file papers and annual self-evaluation due by the first Friday of the quarter. Students wishing to be considered for the study abroad option in year two must petition the Graduate Affairs Committee before the annual student review. Students must bring an up-to-date print-out of their grade history to the review. Spring  Students constitute a committee (2 readers) for their Master’s thesis and have a "Master’s Thesis Proposal" form signed. YEAR TWO Student takes 9 courses (Maximum Aid: Stipend + 9 waivers from Department) Autumn Student registers for 3 courses in addition to an independent study with Master’s thesis director under PHL 698 – for 0 credits. Students must register for PHL 698 using the Independent Study registration form. Winter 1) Two file papers and annual self-evaluation due by Friday of the first week of the quarter.  2) Master’s Thesis due by the end of winter quarter. 3) Students may petition for admittance to the Ph.D. program when the Master’s Thesis has been accepted and 11 courses have been completed.  Spring Study abroad for those accepted to exercise this option. For those not studying abroad, attendance of the teaching practicum during this quarter is required. Students allowed to exercise the study abroad option should discuss with the faculty advisor of the teaching practicum how they propose to meet their practicum requirements while abroad. Students register for regularly scheduled graduate classes while abroad, and before leaving must discuss with their professors how to fulfil the assignments for those courses while abroad. YEAR THREE Student takes 6 courses and teaches 4 courses -- one in Fall, one in Winter, and two in Spring. Maximum Aid: 6 waivers from the department. Students take the Teaching Practicum throughout the year, but do not register for it until Spring. Winter Two file papers and annual self-evaluation due by the first Friday of the Winter quarter. Spring Students register for the Teaching Practicum at the beginning of the Spring quarter. YEAR FOUR Student takes 3 courses and teaches 4 courses (3 waivers from the department). Autumn Student should constitute a Dissertation committee and have a Dissertation Proposal form signed by the end of the quarter. Winter Two file papers and annual self-evaluation due by the first Friday of the Winter quarter. Oral defense of dissertation proposal. YEAR FIVE Student pursues Dissertation Research (PHL 699) (=1 course for 4 credits) and teaches four courses (1 waiver from department). Students register for PHL 699 using the Independent Study registration form. YEAR SIX Student teaches four courses and completes dissertation research.