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Peer Mentor Program
Mentor Program Contact Information
Director: Lisa Payne Miller
Location: 143 HIB
Phone: (949) 824-5132 |
The Humanities Peer Mentor Program is designed to give new first year students a comfortable start at UCI and in the Humanities. Small groups of new freshpeople meet weekly with successful upper-division students majoring in the Humanities. The meetings address academic issues or are spent relaxing and having fun. Groups might explore the UCI campus, attend a workshop on time management and procrastination, enjoy a meal at a local restaurant, etc. Mentees keep journals in which they express ideas and raise issues for their mentors and take part in one whole group workshop each quarter. Mentees earn two units of P/NP credit for their participation in Fall and Winter quarters.
Another focus of the program is to encourage and assist the student mentors to go on to graduate school. They can choose to work closely with faculty sponsors. They write a paper during the Winter quarter documenting their experiences in the program and researching important issues pertaining to their mentor groups. Mentors earn four P/NP units for their participation in each of the Fall and Winter quarters. |
