Subj: Graduate School Opportunity Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 11:32:36 AM From: ccrensh@BAMA.UA.EDU To: EDEBATE@LIST.UVM.EDU Dear Prospective Graduate Students, I am soliciting applications for our graduate assistantship position for next year. If you are interested please contact me at ccrensh@bama.ua.edu or call 205-348-8072. We have an excellent Master's degree program with an outstanding faculty in communication studies that offers courses in cultural/critical studies, political communication, organizational communication and general communication studies. The University of Alabama has a rich tradition and history of support for intercollegiate debate since 1938 and our program's endowment was recently completed so we have permanent stable funding. As the debate graduate assistant you will have the opportunity to coach a team that serves students at all levels of experience and has a good travel schedule. You will also have the opportunity to gain classroom teaching experience in your second year. Please do contact me for further information if you are interested at ccrensh@bama.ua.edu and I will be happy to discuss our program in more detail. Best, Carrie Requirements and links to further information are listed below. You can access the current information about our program via the Internet at the department web site, . On the tab marked "Graduate Program," click for information on program requirements, admissions, course offerings, etc. You can also access the department via the University of Alabama web site (http://www.ua.edu), by clicking first on "Colleges and Schools," then on "College of Communication and Information Sciences" (http://www.ccom.ua.edu), and last on "Communication Studies." For information about applying to Graduate School at The University of Alabama, you need to consult the procedure required by the Graduate School. All degree program applicants apply directly to the Graduate School. There is a hyperlink to the Graduate School web site on our Graduate Program page. But you can also get there directly at . The necessary forms can be downloaded from that web site, and you can submit an electronic application there. For regular admission status, which is required for assistantships, you must have a minimal score of 1500 on the GRE or 50 on the MAT. Our department has 3 graduate assistantships available for in-coming graduate students, one of which is earmarked for debate. These are awarded competitively in the spring for the next academic year. Those who wish to compete for those assistantships must -- 1. have completed the admissions process with the Graduate School, 2. be eligible for regular admissions, and 3. written a letter of application for the assistantship directly to the department, no later than 1 March. You may also contact our graduate program director for futher information. Dr. Beth S. Bennett Graduate Program Director bbennett@bama.ua.edu Department of Communication Studies The University of Alabama phone: 205-348-8073 FAX: 205-348-8080 Carrie Crenshaw, Ph.D. Director of Debate and Associate Professor of Communcation Studies University of Alabama ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from rly-yh01.mx.aol.com (rly-yh01.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.33]) by air-yh04.mail.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:32:36 -0500 Received: from LIME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (lime.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.1.41]) by rly-yh01.mx.aol.com (v67_b1.21) with ESMTP; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:32:30 -0500 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by LIME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <15.0048F20C@LIME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:28:39 -0500 Received: from LIST.UVM.EDU by LIST.UVM.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 55497 for EDEBATE@LIST.UVM.EDU; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:32:24 -0500 Precedence: bulk Received: from bama.ua.edu (bama.ua.edu [130.160.4.114]) by list.uvm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23508 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:32:19 -0500 Received: from bama.ua.edu (bamamail.ua.edu [130.160.4.125]) by bama.ua.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29643 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:31:18 -0600 (CST) X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.51 Message-ID: <200001311631.KAA29643@bama.ua.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:22:22 -0600 Reply-To: ccrensh Sender: Team Topic Debating in America From: ccrensh Subject: Graduate School Opportunity To: EDEBATE@LIST.UVM.EDU