What opportunities will be available for developing and practising teaching skills?
Research students are permitted, but not obliged, to undertake some undergraduate teaching. Such teaching is generally arranged by the colleges, not ISCA, and there is no guarantee that any will be available. In anthropology, teaching opportunities are normally restricted to research students who have returned from fieldwork and are writing up their theses. Would-be graduate tutors are periodically given an introduction or briefing to tutoring by a member of ISCA staff. Those interested should ensure that their names appear on the lists of tutors maintained for each paper within the School of Anthropology (of which ISCA is a part), including the Institute of Human Sciences (for that degree), as well as by the separate Institute of Archaeology (for the Archaeology and Anthropology degree). Would-be tutors are expected to have attended one of the briefings or training sessions mentioned above to be registered. ISCA has set up a mentoring scheme for graduate tutors, including possible cer
