Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. 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 campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.

Berkeley Connect Mentor bio: Sara Friedman is a recent PhD from UC Berkeley, with an MA from the University of Vienna and a BA from the University of Chicago. Research specialties include modern German history, cultural history, queer history, and film.

Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Berkeley Connect course may not be taken in more than two departments in the same semester.

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