INTD248

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PEER FACILITATION FIELDWORK

Course Description

This course is the academic complement to the Peer Facilitation field component of First Year Seminar. Through lecture, guest speakers, journaling, role-playing, specialized texts and other material, the active peer facilitator will receive ongoing skills assessment, professional and peer support, supervision, guidance, and practice in all the particulars necessary to the implementation of the complex roles they bring to assisting instructors and to providing mentorship, peer counseling, academic advisement, personal and academic support and role modeling for first year students. This course, in conjunction with First Year Seminar, will put into practice the theoretical material learned in the spring course, Theories of Peer Facilitation.