Assistantship Responsibilities?

[Ppkitty]

One of the apps I am completing right now has a supplemental application for assistantship or fellowship consideration. The last question is, "What kind of assistantship duties do you feel qualified to undertake?"

So...dumb question probably, but do the duties involved in assistantships generally just involve the things you would expect, like TA'ing? Or should I say I am qualified to instruct a course or do office work? Hard to answer this question when I don't know what the potential job is, so I guess I'm just asking what graduate fellows and assistants do in general!

[youngqueerliving]

It varies widely depending on the program and university, but graduate assistants can end up in many different roles. Serving as a teaching assistant is one role, but you could also end up as the actual instructor for a course. In my clinical program, graduate students teach Intro to Psych and Abnormal Psych. Graduate assistants may also end up in administrative roles as office assistants in various university departments, although I think this is more rare.