CULP Peer Mentorship

1 Credit · Level: Undergraduate

Peer Mentorship will prepare students for active roles in mentorship in the CULP community. This course is designed to provide a space and soft structure for mentors to envision, collaborate, and co-create opportunities and events for CULP. These events and initiatives should encourage CULP students to interact with each other and seek each other for guidance, extending the innovative pedagogy and creativity of CULP beyond the classroom to foster a community of difference, share ideas, and provide support. In the first part of the course, we will work on team building, group facilitation, and communication skills, with a focus on increasing inclusivity and a sense of community. Mentors will collectively set goals for the peer mentor network, organize themselves into sub-groups, discuss ways to engage mentees, explore different events and programs they can create, visit a gateway class to hear from the latest CULP cohort, and develop and carry out a semester plan that outlines prospective events. The second part of the course will be more action-oriented. Peer mentors will regularly update peer mentor network platforms of communication, plan, propose, run events and programming, and offer constructive feedback to each other on ways to increase engagement. Peer mentors will wrap up with a group semester-in-review session, where they will revisit their goals and look toward the next semester.