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Subjects

We offer support in a wide variety of academic subjects, including accounting, American Sign Language, anatomy & physiology, biology, chemistry, communication sciences and disorders, finance, French, general elementary statistics, German, Japanese, math, music theory, physics, social statistics, Spanish, and writing.

If you don’t see your subject in this list, please let us know. 

Hours 

Undergraduate peer tutoring takes place from 10:00 am until 10:00 pm Sunday-Thursday during the fall and spring semesters. We’re closed on university holidays.

Peer tutoring begins on the first day of classes and ends on the last day of classes. Because peer tutors are students too, we do not ask them to work during final exams, but if you meet with them throughout the term we know you’ll be ready for your exams!

Types of Tutoring

1-on-1 peer tutoring appointments are offered in person in Tran Library or via Zoom.

  Book ahead of time when it fits your schedule. You can even book out your appointments for several weeks.

  Bring a friend if you’d like. 

  Let your peer tutor know what you’d like to work on in your session and they will prepare for you so that your session will be productive.

  Peer tutors will start the session by reviewing your goals and tailor your appointment toward meeting those goals.

  Don’t see any times that work with your schedule? Please reach out to us to explore options.

Drop-in group peer tutoring is offered weekly for math, chemistry, biology, and writing.

  Just show up! You’ll find the drop-in tutors on the second floor of Tran Library in the CLASS area at the designated times. All you have to do is sign in and sit down at their table and you’re in the group.

  Start going the first week of the term and go every week, or pop in as needed. You can stay for as long as you’d like, from a few minutes to the whole two hours.

  Some students like to make drop-in hours part of their regular study time for these subjects. It can be motivating to have others around who are working on similar things and it can remind you that in college you should study for every class every day, whether or not you have homework due or a test coming up.

Peer-guided study sessions for Biology 200 and Biology 201

  A peer tutor who works closely with professors in the biology department plans structured learning activities to help you deepen your knowledge.

  This is not a lecture – join us ready for fully engaged, active learning. We know that passive learning (such as re-reading notes and watching videos) results in very little learning. In these sessions you’ll be challenged to participate in learning strategies that actually work!

  Want to be sure a particular topic gets covered or let us know how we can facilitate your experience? ahead of the session.

For all graduate and professional students:

Writing Peer Tutoring

  CLASS writing peer tutors can assist students with any type of writing assignment, for any class, and at any stage of the writing process—from brainstorming and researching to revising and citations.* Peer tutors work with you to improve your writing skills; they do not provide drop-off proofreading and editing services.
  Working with a writing peer tutor helps you build your writing skills by providing you with feedback and individualized discussion about your writing. You’ll have the opportunity to revise and improve your work, similarly to how professional writers seek review and feedback. Learn more about writing peer tutoring below. 

*Graduate Psychology MA students: Please see your program's guidelines regarding writing peer tutoring.

Time Management  Peer Tutoring

  Identify and organize your deadlines and responsibilities.

  Make manageable schedules that work for you.

  Prioritize your responsibilities when you have multiple deadlines.

  Incorporate evidence-based study strategies, such as spaced practice, into your routine to help you study more efficiently.

Audiology

  Peer tutoring appointments for most first and second year .

  Prep for 1st year didactic, 2nd year didactic and praxis exams.

Dental Hygiene 

  Peer tutoring appointments for most first and second year Dental Hygiene courses.

Graduate Psychology: PsyD

  Peer tutoring appointments and exam preparation sessions for GPSY 811 - Biological & Cognitive Bases of Behavior.

Occupational Therapy

  Peer tutoring appointments for selected first and second year courses.

Optometry

  Peer tutoring appointments for selected first and second year courses and one third year course.

  Drop-in peer tutoring available.

  Q & A with the Tutors: Group tutoring sessions to prepare for exams.

Pharmacy

  Peer tutoring appointments for selected first and second year courses.

  Q & A with the Tutors: Group tutoring sessions to prepare for exams.

Physical Therapy

  Peer tutoring appointments for selected first and second year courses.

  Drop-in peer tutoring available.

  Anatomy lab drop-in tutoring available.

  Exam review sessions: Group tutoring sessions to prepare for exams.

Physician Assistant

  Peer tutoring appointments for most first year and summer second year courses. 

  Writing peer tutoring appointments for capstone course.

  Drop-in peer tutoring available for anatomy courses.

Vision Science 

  Peer tutoring appointments for selected courses.

  Drop-in peer tutoring available.

  Q & A with the Tutors: Group tutoring sessions to prepare for exams.

Messaging Peer Tutors with Short Questions About Course Content
You are welcome to message peer tutors with short questions about course content through the . The video (6:36) will show you how to do this. 

Peer tutors guide you in effective strategies to learn as opposed to giving you the answers. When responding to your questions, they will either answer the questions you send in your message or they might instead decide that the most effective way for you to learn would be through a peer tutoring session. In that case, they will ask you to attend a peer tutoring session instead in order to best support you as you learn.

CLASS peer tutors can:

  Guide you to solve problems and understand concepts from your courses.

  Help you identify recurring errors in your work and teach you how to fix them.

  Work with you to develop effective learning and study strategies.

  Help you plan to meet your academic goals.

  Relate to you as a peer to provide feedback and understand your concerns.

  Help you effectively use appropriate learning resources.

CLASS peer tutors cannot:

  Teach new material missed in class.

  Do your homework for you.

  Guarantee an error-free assignment or a better grade.

  Help with take-home or make-up tests.

  Predict the grade you’ll earn on an assignment or test.

  Check homework problems for correctness.

CLASS writing peer tutors can assist students with any type of writing assignment, for any class, and at any stage of the writing process—from brainstorming and researching to revising and citations.* Peer tutors work with you to improve your writing skills; they do not provide drop-off proofreading and editing services. 

Working with a writing peer tutor helps you build your writing skills by providing you with feedback and individualized discussion about your writing. You’ll have the opportunity to revise and improve your work, similarly to how professional writers seek review and feedback. 
 
Writing peer tutors:

  Work with you to understand an assignment and help you generate ideas for a paper, but they cannot tell you exactly what to write for your assignments.

  Read your paper to see if it is organized and makes sense, and help you clarify your ideas to improve flow and readability, but they cannot read your paper only for grammatical errors.

  Guide you through the research process, including how to search for and evaluate sources, and direct you to style guides for citations and formatting and help you understand how to apply them in your papers, but they cannot do the research or format your papers for you.

  Help you formulate an argument, challenge you to deepen your logic, point out where your evidence could be stronger, and guide you in polishing your language choices, but they cannot rewrite the paper for you.

  Help you recognize patterns of errors in your writing and teach you how to fix them, and help you identify areas of strength and areas for improvement in your papers, but they cannot edit or proofread papers for you.

  Work with you at any phase of the writing process, but they can’t do much if the first time you show up is the day the paper is due. Come see us the day you get the assignment and see how much stronger your writing can be if you give it a chance to evolve over time!

*Graduate Psychology MA students: Please see your program's guidelines regarding writing peer tutoring.

Watch "" (Video 6:36)
 
Watch this video to learn how to: 

  Sign up for peer tutoring appointments

   Attend drop-in peer tutoring

  Message your peer tutors

  Add notes or files to your peer tutoring appointments

  Cancel or reschedule your tutoring appointments

  View your past tutoring sessions

Bringing friends and study partners to 1-on–1 appointments
Yes. You can forward our appointment confirmation email to your study partners and make an appointment note to let your tutor know who else will attend with you.

Scheduling 1-on-1 appointments in advance
You can see and schedule tutoring appointments up to 21 days in advance.

Maximum appointments per week
You can schedule a maximum of 5 peer peer tutoring appointments per week.

Lateness
You are expected to arrive on time for your appointment. If you do not arrive within 10 minutes of your appointment start time, you will be marked as a no-show, and your appointment time will be forfeited.

Cancellations
If you are unable to make it to your appointment, please cancel it as far in advance as possible so that another student may use the appointment time.

No-shows
After three no-shows in a given semester, you may be restricted from making and attending future tutoring appointments. You will be contacted by CLASS administrators to discuss your attendance prior to any restrictions being put in place. You can avoid no-shows by canceling any appointments that you cannot attend.

Checking in
You may check in to your appointment or drop-in hours no more than 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. You must check-in for scheduled appointments within 10 minutes of your appointment start time.

Privacy
Consistent with FERPA guidelines, information about student usage of CLASS services is kept private, with the exception of cases where academic misconduct has occurred or other instances of institutional necessity. Identifying student information is not shared with the current instructor of record.