Teaching Opportunities
Students intending to pursue an academic career after the D.Phil are encouraged to gain teaching experience alongside their doctoral studies by teaching the University’s undergraduates.
Each academic year, the Faculty organizes a Graduate Teaching Scheme, which pairs graduate students with tutors for college-based, first-year class teaching—in Logic, Moral Philosophy (studied in connection with Mill’s Utilitarianism) and General Philosophy. Under the Scheme, graduate students assist the college tutor with the teaching of the course and are responsible for marking the students’ written work.
The Faculty also maintains a Graduate Teaching Register, which is updated each term and circulated to the tutorial fellows in every college, who are likely to consult it when looking for graduate tutors. (A good deal of tutorial teaching is done by graduate students.)
The Faculty normally offers a seminar on tutorial teaching each year for graduates, in which the structure and nature of the Oxford tutorial system are explained and a wide range of issues concerning it are open for discussion. All PRS or D.Phil students are expected to attend such a seminar before embarking on any teaching. Attendance at the seminar is a precondition for being included in the Graduate Teaching Register and the Graduate Teaching Scheme.