Teaching is guaranteed to graduate students in their third and fourth years provided they have met the necessary requirements. Possible teaching assignments include a section of an undergraduate language course or a discussion section of a literature course. Teaching opportunities in other departments may sometimes be available as well. Harvard provides its teaching fellows with classroom resources, a training program, and feedback from permanent faculty members. Such ample teaching opportunities reflect a departmental philosophy of preparing strong candidates for the academic job market. The successful completion of Romance Studies 210 is a requirement for all graduate students as they start teaching, but does not count as one of the sixteen courses toward the doctorate. RS 210 “Language Pedagogy: Theories, Approaches, and Practices”, is a graduate-level methodology course, usually taken in the fall term of the third year. It is preceded by a 6 hour pre-service training, comprised of a 2 hour workshop, 2 hours of informal class observations, and a 2 hour follow-up discussion session, to be taken in the spring of the second year. 
Graduate students with previous teaching experience who have already taken a course in pedagogy through another graduate degree program may petition to be exempt from Linguistics 200. The Director of the Language Program determines exemptions on a case-by-case basis.