Tutorial Services
Mission
The central mission of Tutorial Services at the Learning Resources Center (LRC) is to promote a collaborative learning environment that supports UC Denver students in becoming independent learners thus assisting in their academic success, retention, and graduation.
Pedagogy
The Learning Resources Center’s Tutorial Services outright rejects and does not operate on the misconception that a student requesting tutoring has some learning problem, is unable to intellectually excel in school, or has to resort to some type of remedial assistance in order to maintain an acceptable academic performance.
The center’s Tutorial Services advocates a collaborative learning and student-centered pedagogy. A productive and effective learning process requires that both the tutor and the student engage in critical and interactive discussion of the material at hand. By joining the academic tutor in an analytical discourse, students will achieve a thorough comprehension of the given subject, and acquiring their own intellectual authority. In the end, tutorials are designed to foster academic excellence and personal responsibility through the development of critical thinking, academic and learning strategies, and intellectual inquiry and analysis skills.