Summer Research Training Program
MENTORING & RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT in the SUMMER
Where possible, students meet weekly, or every other week, with their faculty mentors to discuss their research and to raise questions. Prior to beginning the program, students are asked to develop a reading list (approximately 20 books and articles), in consultation with their faculty mentors, relevant to their research projects.
During the summer a student spends in the MMUF Summer Research Training Institute, program instructors and graduate students meet frequently with the individual MMUF students. Program instructors and graduate students guide MMUF students in four ways:
1) Similar to the way in which a supervised reading course might unfold, graduate students—at the direction of the faculty mentor—introduce his/her assigned MMUF student to research methods and theories relevant to the students’ research interests. Faculty mentors identify 3 methods or theoretical approaches with which they feel the students should become familiar over the course of the summer.
2) Faculty mentors, graduate students and program instructors assist undergraduates in understanding readings relevant to their research projects by helping them to situate critically these readings within a history of thought--locating them on an 'intellectual map' —appropriate to that student’s field of study.
3) In consultation with research librarians, they introduce them to the wide variety of research tools available in the Regenstein and Crerar Libraries.
4) Program instructors and graduate students guide and oversee the development of the MMUF student’s annotated bibliography.