Permission of instructor. This seminar prepares students to join the ECB Peer Tutoring Program where they serve as consultants to other undergraduates who need help with their writing. After completing ECB 300, students go on to take ECB 301 in the next term. They are given course credit for serving as writing tutors. As part of their training, seminar students discuss readings in the theory of composition, learn about writing in the different disciplines, examine the strengths and weaknesses in their own writing, and begin, under supervision, to practice tutoring.
Course work includes three to five papers as well as brief reports on the tutoring experience.
Registration by override only. Directed Peer Tutoring. This is Peer Tutoring for credit. Open only to students who have completed ECB 300. As trained tutors, students tutor on-site for four hours a week and meet one hour a week for a discussion session.