BRADLEY PEER MENTOR COURSE
Provides training and support for Peer Mentors of the Bradley Learning Community. Helps improve leadership and facilitation skills for Peer Mentors, whose primary service obligations include co-facilitating a section of the Bradley Roundtable seminar and arranging programming for the Bradley Learning Community. Introduces new techniques for working with small groups. Special attention will be paid to the research on the developmental and academic needs of first-year college students Encourages students to develop their professional skills. Serves as an opportunity for guided reflection, as part of the community-based learning model.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Consent of instructor Course Designation: Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: Yes, for 2 number of completions Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop leadership skills and initiative. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Improve oral communication skills through reasoned, well-organized and sustained discussions of important issues or questions, including the ability to explain and evaluate different or opposing perspectives evenhandedly and dispassionately. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine questions and make decisions with consideration for the cultural perspectives and worldviews of others and self-critical appreciation of cultural and personal values. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Make connections among diverse subject areas and modes of thinking. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply the major areas of knowledge to the solution of individual and community problems. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Improve group facilitation skills. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Study and understand the developmental needs of first-year college students. Audience: Undergraduate 8. Understand civic responsibility and the impact of their community engagement upon themselves and the residents. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop leadership skills and initiative. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Improve oral communication skills through reasoned, well-organized and sustained discussions of important issues or questions, including the ability to explain and evaluate different or opposing perspectives evenhandedly and dispassionately. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Examine questions and make decisions with consideration for the cultural perspectives and worldviews of others and self-critical appreciation of cultural and personal values. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Make connections among diverse subject areas and modes of thinking. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply the major areas of knowledge to the solution of individual and community problems. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Improve group facilitation skills. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Study and understand the developmental needs of first-year college students. Audience: Undergraduate 8. Understand civic responsibility and the impact of their community engagement upon themselves and the residents. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027