GSI Ethics Course 2024-2025

The 2024-2025 GSI Professional Standards and Ethics Online Course will close on July 15, 2025. If you are enrolled in the course, please complete the course by that date. The 2025-2026 Ethics course will open on August 1, 2025. In the event that you are enrolled in the 2024-2025 course and do not complete it by July 15, 2025, you will need to enroll in and complete the 2025-2026 course in full. For those GSIs teaching for the first time in fall 2025, we recommend that you take the 2025-2026 course that will open August 1, 2025 as it will contain the most up-to-date information.

As a part of the campus-wide preparation of GSIs for teaching at UC Berkeley, completing the Online Ethics Course is required of all first-time GSIs before they interact with students (in person or online) in their role as an instructor.* Through this course GSIs learn about policies, practices, and standards that all instructors need to know in order to perform their responsibilities professionally and ethically. The course is structured in five modules:

• Practicing Professional Standards and Ethics as a GSI
• Creating Inclusive Classrooms
• Teaching Students with Disabilities
• Fostering Academic Integrity
• Creating an Educational Environment Free of Sexual Harassment

The goal of this online course is to enable GSIs to carry out their responsibilities in a manner that promotes student learning and their own growth as instructors while upholding the professional standards and expectations of the University. Along with the seminar on teaching and learning in higher education that GSIs take in their departments, the Teaching Conference, and the mentoring GSIs receive from the faculty member with whom they teach, this online course provides GSIs with an excellent foundation as they begin to teach at Berkeley. Please see the following pages for further information about the online course:

• Course Overview and Objectives
• Enrollment Instructions
• Online Ethics Course: Frequently Asked Questions
• Sexual Harassment / Sexual Violence Prevention Training: Requirements for Graduate Students
• Ethics Course Annotated Campus Resources List

  *Although the course is intended for first-time GSIs, any instructor, student, or staff member on the campus can enroll in and take the course. The Graduate Council of the Academic Senate sets the policy for first-time GSIs (Graduate Council Policy on Appointments and Mentoring of GSIs), and the GSI Teaching & Resource Center offers the course.