Mentoring

Mentoring means support, advice, access to networks, to "informal circumstances" and training-related support for a certain period of time. Students have the opportunity to contact a mentor from the group of professors with whom they can discuss any questions about their studies, work out plans for a well-structured course of study and disclose the status of their studies. A total of three mentoring appointments are offered:

The first appointment, which takes place at the end of each winter semester, is a mentoring day. All first semester students are contacted here. Students are assigned via a list. The students are informed by email about their assignment to a mentor.

The mentoring day takes place as a group event with all professors. On the one hand, this has the advantage that the students get to know all the professors personally and can ask all of them questions. On the other hand, this also ensures the uniformity and comprehensive nature of the mentoring program. At the end of this event, students can sign one of the mentor lists on display and (possibly) change their mentor in this way. Students who do not show up remain with their assigned mentors.

The second appointment, which takes place at the beginning of the summer semester, is an individual (= mentor-related) and specially designated mentoring session or event. All second semester students are contacted here.

The same applies to the third appointment, which takes place in the following summer semester (fourth semester).

As far as the responsibility for the internship and the internship report is concerned, the original assignment is normally binding. Specifically:

• For students who do not change their mentor on Mentoring Day or do not take up the mentoring offer on Mentoring Day, the first semester assignment remains valid.

• For students who change mentors on the mentoring day, the internship responsibility is transferred to the new mentor.

The first mentoring day will take place on January 29, 2020. The mentors will receive their assigned participants on this day from 14:00 to 16:00 in room 0019 of Kurt-Wolters-Str. 5 to discuss the modalities of mentoring. Please inform yourself on our homepage or in the display case on the 3rd floor of the Humanities and Cultural Studies building. If you are committed to other courses at this time, please write directly to the mentor assigned to you.

• Mentoring assignment first semester German Studies WS2019/20
  (Updated on 29.01.2020)