Student Affairs
Instructional Resources
Audiovisual Requests
Classroom Supplies
Copying Services
Course and Room Scheduling
Course Rosters
Final and Midterms Examinations
Instructional Assistance
Paper Submission Services
Student Referral
Spring Quarter Curriculum Calendar
|
Date |
Item |
|
TBD |
Visiting faculty meetings |
|
Monday - Friday |
Syllabi due to student affairs |
|
Monday, March 31 |
Instruction begins |
|
Friday, April 11 |
Last day that students may add/drop classes |
|
Monday, April 21 |
Course roster and finals distributed |
|
Tuesday - Tuesday |
Faculty advising for continuing students |
|
Thursday - Sunday |
IR/PS 20th Anniversary Celebration |
|
Monday, May 26 |
Memorial day observance |
|
Friday, June 6 |
Instruction ends |
|
Monday, June 9 |
Grade reports distributed to faculty |
|
Monday - Friday |
Final exams |
|
Monday, June 16 |
Grade reports due to Student Affairs |
|
Friday, June 20 |
IR/PS Awards Night |
|
Saturday, June 21 |
IR/PS Commencement |
Instructional Resources
Audiovisual Requests
Most classrooms are equipped with screens and projectors, as well as dry erase or chalk boards. Televisions and VCRs are also available in some seminar rooms. Please contact the IR/PS Computing Services if you require audiovisual equipment beyond what is provided in your classroom.
(Back to top)
Classroom Supplies
All classrooms are checked for adequate supply of dry erase markers and erasers on Monday morning. If you find a classroom without needed supplies, please ask a student to come to the Student Affairs offices. We will deliver the needed items to you as quickly as possible.
(Back to top)
Copying Services
Amanda Keckin, Faculty Assistant, will arrange for the reproduction of course materials. Please allow up to two full business days for your request to be completed. To place a request, please visit Amanda in the Dean's Office or send an email to akeckin@ucsd.edu.
(Back to top)
Course and Room Scheduling
Prior to the start of the quarter, faculty members are asked to submit to Student Affairs their preferences for teaching times. Instructor preference, facility availability, and conflicts in curriculum are taken into account when preparing the quarterly schedule. This schedule is announced to the student body during the fifth week of the prior quarter so that students may choose classes during the campus registration period.
Classrooms are assigned according to the predicted size of the class. Please contact Student Affairs if your assigned classroom does not accommodate your needs or the number of students enrolled in your course. You may also contact Student Affairs if you would like to reserve additional classrooms for review sessions, presentations, or exams.
(Back to top)
Course Rosters
Course rosters are distributed to faculty after the add/drop deadline. Please contact Student Affairs if you would like a provisional course roster for the first two weeks of the quarter.
(Back to top)
Final and Midterms Examinations
While the campus does publish a finals schedule at the beginning of the quarter, this schedule requires faculty to hold unique exams for each course section. To reduce the burden to faculty, and ensure academic integrity, IR/PS holds one exam time for each course. To create the IR/PS finals schedule, Student Affairs collects student schedule information on the day after the add/drop deadline. While Student Affairs does try to accommodate faculty preference for exam dates and times, the most constraining criterion is campus policy that no one student have more than two finals exams in one day.
Midterms are scheduled at the discretion of the faculty member. Please contact Student Affairs if you would like to schedule a large venue in which to give the exam. If you would like to offer a singular midterm for more than one course section, please contact Student Affairs immediately. Student Affairs will schedule the facility so that you may include the midterm exam time, date and location on your syllabus.
University policy dictates that the faculty member be present at the final examination. Under special circumstances, members of Student Affairs can serve as additional exam proctors for midterm or final exams.
(Back to top)
Instructional Assistance
Prior to the start of the academic year, teaching assistants are assigned to classes based on expected enrollment. In general, IR/PS core courses are offered the instructional support of Ph.D. and/or Master's level teaching assistants. In addition, classes with enrollment of over fifty students are assigned a grader based on funding availability. Faculty members should note that graders can be difficult to locate as students who are well qualified in the subject matter are sometimes reluctant to undertake this lower-paid position (versus a full appointment as a teaching assistant). In some cases, the professor may be asked to assist in the recruitment of graders and/or teaching assistants.
Student Affairs runs the Skills Development Center, which provides academic assistance to IR/PS students throughout the year. The Skills Development Center is staffed by two Masters level students with extensive backgrounds in journalism and/or English as a second language training. Students having difficulty writing in the classroom are encouraged to set appointments with the Skill Development Center writing coaches by visiting the center, located in the IR/PS computer lab. In addition to one-on-one appointments, the writing coaches give presentations regarding research techniques, academic writing, and other academic topics.
In addition to the writing coaches, the Skills Development Center offers group tutoring sessions to students in the lowest quartile of the core courses, including quantitative methods, managerial economics, accounting, and international economics. To identify students who qualify for the free group tutoring sessions, Student Affairs occasionally requests midterm results and/or homework grades from the professor.
(Back to top)
Paper Submission Services
If a faculty member prefers to have a paper due at a time outside of the normal class session, he or she can instruct the students to submit the papers to the Student Affairs mailbox, located outside of room 4210 of the Robinson Building Complex. Papers to be submitted to Student Affairs should be due between 9am and 4pm. It is Student Affairs procedure to collect papers from the mailbox at the appointed time and to time stamp them. After the appointed hour, Student Affairs checks the mailbox occasionally to timestamp each late submission. Unless otherwise instructed, Student Affairs puts the collected papers in the faculty mailbox the following day. If you would like to use this service, please contact Student Affairs; also, please instruct students to include their name, PID, the course title, and the faculty member's name on the first page of the paper.
(Back to top)
Student Referral
All students enrolled in IR/PS courses are expected to maintain the high standard of decorum appropriate to a graduate and professional school. If any student does not meet this expectation, faculty members may choose to refer the student to Student Affairs. Students will be counseled as to how to improve their course performance and behavior. If the student does not show improvement after receiving counseling, they will be advised to withdraw from the course.
(Back to top)
