Honors Learning Assistant Interest Form SP25

Spring 2025 Learning Assistant Interest Form

We are seeking students who are interested in serving as Learning Assistants for our Honors Seminars in Spring 2025 as well as HNRS 261. If you are interested please answer the questions below. Learning Assistant responsibilities will involve assisting a faculty instructor in their course. Responsibilities may include facilitating discussions, preparing course activities, and answering student questions. Learning Assistants will be required to attend the class at its scheduled time. Serving as Learning Assistant will fulfill the Honors Co-Curricular: Teaching/Mentoring requirement.

If you are selected as a candidate, we will be in touch with you about your availability to be a Learning Assistant for your selected course(s).

Interest forms are due by March 4, 2025

1. Name (First and Last): *This question is required.

2. What is your major?

3. What year in school?

4. Have you served as a teaching assistant, learning assistant, or peer mentor while at Cal Poly? If yes, please briefly describe your experience(s) below. If not, please leave this question blank.

5. Please briefly describe your interest in serving as a Learning Assistant. Include why are you interested and what you hope to learn from this experience. *This question is required.

6. Below are Honors courses (299s and 261) seeking Learning Assistants for Fall24. Please indicate which courses you are interested in serving as a Learning Assistant: *This question is required.

HNRS 299-01: Critiquing the High School Film; T: 2:10am–3:00pm
HNRS 299-02: A Collision Course on Birds: Researching Bird Strikes Into Buildings on Cal Poly’s Campus; M 1:10 -2:00pm
HNRS 299-04: Waves of Knowing: An Introduction to Critical Surf Studies; W 10:10-11:00am
HNRS 299-06: Biology, Sex, and Gender; R 2:10-3:00pm
HNRS 299-07: Nature Films; M 12:10-1:00pm
HNRS 299-08: Structural Queens - Telling the Stories of Women in the Built Environment; T 10:10am-11:00am
HNRS 261: Leadership Self Evaluation - Wednesday 10:10am-12:00pm