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Tutorial Guidelines

Tutorial services are free when the request is made through Academic Services. All traditional tutorial sessions are held on Sundays and Wednesdays from 6-8 p.m. To request a tutor for Sunday, you MUST sign up by 2 p.m. on Wednesday. To request a tutor for Wednesday, you MUST sign up by 2 p.m. on Friday. All students are notified about tutor availability by e-mail the day before their requested session. Any student who needs help but has a conflict with the scheduled tutorial times must contact the Office of Academic Services to see if a tutor is available at an alternate time.

Alternate Time Procedures

To request a tutor at an alternate time tutees must appear in person at the Academic Services window (206.8) in the Student Services Center in Lee Hall and make a written request. The tutee must complete and sign an Alternate Time Request Form and fill out the online form. At the time of the tutoring session the tutor and tutee must record the time the session begins and the time it ends. Both the tutor and the tutee must sign the time sheet. An Alternate Time Request Form only needs to be filled out once.

Walk-in tutoring for math

No appointment is necessary for math walk-in tutoring. Math walk-in tutoring is available every Monday from 4 - 6 p.m. and Thursday from 5 - 7 p.m. in Trinkle B52 during times when school is in session beginning September 16 through December 6 for the fall 2009 semester and for the spring 2010 semester January 17 through April 18.

Tutee Responsibilities:

  • It is important that you show up on time for your tutoring session. Let us know if you will be late as tutors will be reassigned after 15 minutes.  To cancel an appointment call Academic Services (x1010) before 4 p.m. After 4 p.m., contact your tutor directly. Please note that two or more unexcused absences may affect your ability to receive services.
  • Be prepared! Bring paper, a pen or pencil, your notes, and textbook. Do homework and try to work the problems before meeting with the tutor. Tutors will help with areas of confusion but will not teach the material. If tutors find a tutee that is too unprepared, the tutors will refer the tutee to his/her professor.  Remember to keep questions relevant to the subject area. For example, no biology questions in the chemistry sessions.

Students who wish to request a tutor MUST sign up online or by calling (540) 654-1010. Students must request a tutor each time tutoring is needed.

Courses for which we offer tutoring:

Biology
121, 122, 210, 211, 231, 334
Business

131, 132

Chemistry

111, 112, 211, 212

Economics

201, 202, 303
English
206, 251, 351

French

101, 102

Greek

101, 102

History
121

Italian

101, 102
Latin
101, 102

Linguistics

101

Math
Please see above for walk-in times and location.
Philosophy
201, 335

Physics

101, 102, 105, 106, 211, 317

Psychology

100, 261

Spanish

101, 201, 202, 205, 314, 316, 317, 318, 324