Berkeley Connect
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program that helps students build intellectual community. The sections in Comparative Literature introduce students to the techniques of reading taught in Comparative Literature and introduce students to the wider campus. We talk about such concerns as when to attend office hours or how to write to faculty about getting off the wait list for courses. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to Cal Performances and the Berkeley Art Museum. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.