COMM 190 - MENTORING: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Hours: 2
This course focuses on the principles, practices, and applications of mentoring as a primary human activity which incorporates a variety of leadership theories aimed at transforming the person who is being mentored and the person who is doing the mentoring. Students enrolled in the courses will mentor younger students –typically elementary, middle school, or high school students– through an established college or community program. The course takes students through an incremental process that moves them from practicing simple mentoring techniques to developing and promoting mentoring initiatives.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.
Notes: The mentoring course requires the students to be enrolled for two quarters of a single academic year. In addition to meeting with the professor weekly throughout both quarters, students are required to mentor students in one of the College’s weekly community service programs for three hours per week during 8 weeks of each of the 10-week quarters. Also, during the second quarter the class meets, students will train other college and high students to mentor.

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COMM 190 - MENTORING: THEORY AND PRACTICE