Open Rapporteur Positions

These are in-person positions.

Rapporteurs serve as liaisons between the seminar and the department of The University Seminars, performing all duties necessary to ensure that meetings are successfully held. Seminars generally meet once a month during the evening. This position takes approximately 8-10 hours a month and rapporteurs are compensated $25.00/hour in their first and second years, and $30 in their third and subsequent years. Full-time Columbia University graduate students are eligible for this posting. Normally, students are not invited to attend seminars, which features distinguished speakers on contemporary issues and lively discussion by individuals with a special interest in the respective subject matter. Rapporteurs are expected to take notes on the meeting, help The Seminars office with organizational details, and to prepare notes for publication on The Seminars website and for use by attendees.

NOTE: Applicants must make sure to take into account hourly commitments to teaching fellowships, DRA and/or RA, TA positions.

Full time Columbia University students may not work more than 20 hours per week for any on-campus employment, and university and academic holidays must be observed. If you are interested in one of the positions listed below, contact the respective seminar chair/s.

741 | Global and Interdisciplinary Core Curricula

Purpose: To collectively explore the pedagogical purpose and best practice approaches to interdisciplinary and global humanities “core” at the level of higher education to meet the challenges of the emerging world. A major challenge to teaching humanities today is how to rethink its pedagogy in such a way that students not only learn about different cultures of the world but learn from them to think critically about the way each of us understand, experience, and broaden our own culture. This Seminar welcomes the participation of faculty and administrators from Columbia and beyond, as well as select invested students, to 1) help frame the kinds of questions that most demand humanity’s collective concern in this new age of interdependence; 2) to identify those classics—including seminal advances in contemporary sciences where advisable—from throughout the world’s traditions that will help bring those concerns into sharpest focus; and 3) to rethink from a fresh perspective the institutional structures and resources by which this new generation of interdisciplinary “core” courses may be most effectively implemented.

Chair/s

Rachel E. Chung
ec61@columbia.edu

 

Gareth D. Williams
gdw5@columbia.edu