This course is designed to enhance leadership capabilities and provide understanding of the role mentors play in business and societal organizations. Students will complete background readings on the role of mentoring throughout history and the relationship of mentoring to leadership, as well as research on the factors that lead to successful mentoring relationships. Students will receive instruction in topics such as communication skills, cultural sensitivity, team building skills, tutoring skills, crisis management, conflict resolutions, and adolescent development. Once instruction is completed, students will be paired with pupils from the junior high school to serve as mentors and use the knowledge and skills they have gained. The duration of this course is two semesters to ensure that the mentors give a nine-month commitment to the school children.
Students receive one full course credit after successful completion of the second semester.
First and second semester. Applied Research Methods. Explores the logic of research design and practical and ethical constraints on social research. Topics include the true experiments in the laboratory and field, quasi-experiments and program evaluation, questionnaire construction, systematic observation, content analysis, and the uses of archival data. This course is taken concurrently with its laboratory, Psychology 111L, Applied Research Practicum .