September 26, 2024

ARCHY 208: Intro to Archaeological Data Science

is hiring a Teaching Assistant for Autumn Quarter 2024!

Instructor: Ben Marwick

Course Information: Tuesday & Thursday 8:30 am – 10:20 am / GWN 201

Appointment Dates: September 16, 2024 – December 15, 2024

Compensation: Position is 50% FTE; salary is commensurate with academic standing

Deadline to Apply: Thursday, September 26th, 2024

Course Description: Pyramids, Stonehenge, Nazi Death Camps: Pseudo-archaeology makes radical claims about such sites, but what do the data reveal? Tackles false claims about the human past using archaeological data. Hands-on experience of data analysis and visualization using the software program R in computing laboratories. This course teaches R to complete beginners using interesting examples from archaeological science. No prior skills or experience in either data science or archaeology is expected from the students. 

TA Responsibilities: 

– Attend all lectures and labs, assist students during lab classes

– Prepare lessons and conduct weekly quiz section classes

– Hold regular office hours 1 hr/wk
– Tutor students and provide feedback on student work
– Manage and respond to course-related email
– Grade student work using rubrics and maintain grading records
– Attend instructor/TA meetings 1 hr/wk

TA Experience:

-Required Experience: Students must have taken one or more 400-level class(es) that taught the R programming language for data analysis and visualization.
-Preferred Experience: Familiarity with the R programming language and its data structures, with the RStudio Integrated Development Environment; the Tidyverse suite of R packages; writing using R Markdown or Quarto; recognizing and solving common errors and issues in all of the above

TO APPLY: To apply, complete the application form at https://forms.gle/Hf2bJEaSQ1YZxMpS7 and upload the following additional documents:

  1. Current CV
  2. Unofficial Transcripts
  3. TA Evaluations

*To access the form, log in using your @uw.edu address (https://mail.google.com/a/uw.edu).