2024 Tutor Application

2024 Summer Session | Tutor Application

Please fill out the following fields and attach the following items at the end of the application. Applications are open to current matriculated graduate Stanford students only:

Your resumé
Your unofficial transcript
A cover letter (optional)

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Demographic Information

First Name

Preferred Name

Last Name

Preferred Pronouns

Stanford Email Address

Stanford ID Number (SUID)

Cell Phone Number

Current Age

Hometown

How did you learn about this position?

E-mail on listserv

Previous Summer Session Staff Member (SRA, Mentor, Tutor, etc.)

Other:

Which listserv(s) did you learn about this position from?

If you indicated "other," please explain how you learned about this position.

Stanford Information

Major(s) or Probable Major(s)

Current Student Status

Undergraduate

Graduate

Co-Term

Are you graduating in 2024?

Yes

Have you worked for Summer Session as a tutor in the past?

Yes

What general area(s) are you able to tutor? Check all that apply:

STEM

Writing

Humanities/Social Sciences

Which of the following courses would you feel comfortable tutoring? Please see our website for course descriptions. Check all that apply.

ANTHRO 1S-01 - Intro to Cultural & Social Anthropology

ANTHRO 15S-01 - Immigration and the Politics of Fear

BIO 11S-01 - Microbiology: Human Health & Society

BIO 15S-01 - Biology in the News

BIO 32S-01 - Introduction to Biotechnology: Detecting and Treating Disease

BIO 40S-01 - Advances in Cancer Biology Research and Cancer Treatments

BIO 50S-01 - Introduction to Cancer Biology

BIO 8S-01 - Introduction to Human Physiology

BIO 20S-01 - Climate Change Biology and Species Responses

CEE 107S-01 - Understand Energy Essentials

CEE 176A-01 - Energy Efficient Buildings

CEE 176C-01 - Energy Storage Integration - Vehicles, Renewables, and the Grid

CEE 176G-01 - Sustainability Design Thinking

CHEM 121-01 - Understanding the Natural and Unnatural World through Chemistry

CHEM 31A-01 - Chemical Principles I

CHEM 31B-01 - Chemical Principles II

CHEM 33-01 - Structure and Reactivity of Organic Molecules

CHINLANG 1A-01 - Accelerated First-Year Chinese, Part 1

CLASSICS 14-01 - Greek and Latin Roots of English

CLASSICS 31-01 - Greek Mythology

CME 106-01 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers

COMM 114S-01 - Technologies and Well-being

COMM 107S-01 - Communication, Identity, and Context

COMPLIT 57-01 - Human Rights and World Literature

COMPMED 182-01 - How to Avoid the Walking Dead: The Intersection of Biosafety and Infectious Disease Research

COMPMED 89S-01 - The Neurobiology of Pain

CS 103-01 - Mathematical Foundations of Computing

CS 106A-01 - Programming Methodology

CS 106B-01 - Programming Abstractions

CS 107-01 - Computer Organization and Systems

CS 109-01 - Introduction to Probability for Computer Scientists

CS 161-01 - Design and Analysis of Algorithms

CS 193C-01 - Client-Side Internet Technologies

CSRE 17-01 - To Laugh or Not to Laugh: Exploring Race and Gender Through Humor

CSRE 15-01 - Race and College Admissions: The Case of the United States and its Implications for a Global Context

CTL 53 - Working Smarter

DATASCI 112-01 - Principles of Data Science

ECON 1-01 - Principles of Economics

ECON 111-01 - Money and Banking

ECON 165-01 - International Finance

ECON 43-01 - Introduction to Financial Decision Making

EE 101A-01 - Circuits I

EE 261-01 - The Fourier Transform and Its Applications

EE 263-01 - Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems (CME 263)

EE 364A-01 - Convex Optimization I

EFSLANG 689T-01 - Interacting in California's Vineyard Culture

EFSLANG 691S-01 - Oral Presentation

EFSLANG 698S-01 - Writing Academic English

ENGLISH 90-01 Fiction Writing

ENGLISH 90V-01- Fiction Writing Online

ENGLISH 91-01 Creative Nonfiction

ENGLISH 91V-01 - Creative Nonfiction Online

ENGLISH 92V-01 - Reading and Writing Poetry Online

ENGLISH 9CE-01 - Creative Expression in Writing

ENGLISH 9CV-01 - Creative Expression in Writing Online

ENGLISH 221-01 - Software, Hardware, Wetware: Cyberpunk Systems Theory

ENGR 10-01 - Introduction to Engineering Analysis

ENGR 40M-01 - An Intro to Making: What is EE

ENGR 108-01 - Introduction to Matrix Methods

ENGR 145S-01 - Technology Entrepreneurship

ENGR 145S-02 - Technology Entrepreneurship

EPI 259-01 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Epidemiology

FEMGEN 147-01 - Feminism and Technology

FILMPROD 106S-01 - Image and Sound: Filmmaking for the Digital Age

HISTORY 297C-01 - Pre-Modern Chinese Foreign Relations and Diplomacy

HISTORY 257D-01 - War, Revolution, and Modern American Society

INTNLREL 102-01 - History of the International System since 1914

INTNLREL 145-01 - Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention

INTNLREL 160-01 - United Nations Peacekeeping

JAPANLNG 1A-01 - Accelerated First-Year Japanese, Part 1

LINGUIST 1-01 - Introduction to Linguistics

MATH 21-01 - Calculus

MATH 51-01 - Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus, and Modern Applications

ME 102-01 Foundations of Product Realization

ME 248-01 - Silver Pendant Project

ME 344-01 - Introduction to Building High Performance Computing Clusters

ME 344S-01 - HPC-AI Summer Seminar Series

MS&E 20-01 - Discrete Probability Concepts And Models

MS&E 75-01 - Redefining Creativity: Designing Human Connections in an AI World

MS&E 140-01 - Accounting for Managers and Entrepreneurs

MS&E 180-01 - Organizations: Theory and Management

MS&E 254-01 - The Ethical Analyst

ORALCOMM 118-01 - Public Speaking: Romancing the Room

ORALCOMM 177-01 - Performance of Power: Oratory and Authority from the Ancient World to the Postmodern

PHIL 30S-01 - Introduction to Political Philosophy

PHIL 29S-01 - Feminist Philosophy (or, Feminist Philosophy of Gender History)

PHIL 27S-01 - How to Make a Decision: Ancient Greek Philosophers on Practical Rationality

PHIL 28S-01 - Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence

POLISCI 101-01 - Introduction to International Relations

POLISCI 133-01 - Ethics and Politics of Public Service

POLISCI 153-01 - Strategy: Introduction to Game Theory

PWR 1A-01 - Introduction to Writing at Stanford: Rhetorics of Popular Culture

PWR 1D-01 - Writing Academic Arguments: The Art of the Essay

PWR 1TRF-01 - Beyond the Ivory Tower: the Rhetoric of the University

PWR 2SBA-01 - Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Human Enhancement

PWR 2STA -01 - Writing & Rhetoric 2: Ethics and AI

PWR 2AH-01 - Ethnic Narratives and the Rhetoric of American Identity

SOC 130D-01 - Games, Competition, and Play

SOC 132D-01 - Body Politics: Desirability, Disability, and Other Ways that Society Puts Meaning on Our Bodies

SPANLANG 1A-01 - Accelerated First-Year Spanish, Part 1

STATS 117-01 - Theory of Probability I

STATS 118-01 - Theory of Probability II

STATS 191-01 - Introduction to Applied Statistics

STATS 200-01 - Introduction to Statistical Inference

STATS 202-01 - Data Mining and Analysis

STATS 216V-01 - Introduction to Statistical Learning

STATS 217-01 - Introduction to Stochastic Processes I

STATS 302-01 - Qualifying Exams Workshop

STATS 390-01 - Consulting Workshop

STATS 60-01 - Introduction to Statistical Methods: Precalculus

SYMSYS 1-01 - Minds and Machines

TAPS 103-01 - Beginning Improvising

Some of our tutors also work as foreign language conversation partners. Select all languages with which you have verbal proficiency and would like to tutor.

Spanish

Chinese

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Latin

Other

None

Other

What are your anticipated commitments for Summer 2024? Please include description and hours per week.

This includes classes, internships, other jobs, etc. Please note that students accepting one of our staff positions are required to limit their total Stanford work hours to no more than 40 combined hours a week (i.e., a tutor working 20 hours/week would only be able to have another Stanford job amounting to 20 additional hours/week)

Please list all confirmed dates that you will not be available during summer quarter.

Tutor Application Questions

Please limit responses to 200 words maximum.

Please list and explain any relevant work experience you have had as a TA, teacher, mentor, tutor, etc...

Please provide any additional information you wish to be considered.

Workshop Ideas

You have been asked to create a workshop for students in academic skills or related to your subject area. In a few sentences, describe your workshop topic and how it would support student learning.

Workshops will take place in person OR online, through Zoom, and will have around 20 students participating. Workshops are typically 1-1.5 hours and focus on academic skills, as well as topics that draw on our tutors’ areas of expertise. Workshops should be interactive (not lectures). This question is intended to let you be creative and share what you’re interested in!

Recommender Information

Applicants are required to submit information for one recommender. Recommenders need not be Stanford affiliates, but should be able to speak to the applicant's skills as a tutor.

Recommenders will be emailed directly and asked to complete a recommendation form.

First Name

Last Name

Recommender's E-mail Address

Resumé, Cover Letter, and Unofficial Transcript

PDF documents are preferred.

Resumé

Please submit PDF

Unofficial Transcript

Please submit PDF

Cover Letter (Optional)

Please submit PDF

Condition of Employment

I have read the job description and understand the commitment and responsibilities of the positions for which I am applying. If selected for a position, I am willing to accept the conditions of employment.

I acknowledge the above is true.