Peer Tutoring

The  Peer Tutoring Program offers a wide variety of tutoring services to meet the academic needs of the NU undergraduate students. Peer tutoring appointments are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis and can last up to an hour. An instructor can require or recommend peer tutoring; however, it is always the student’s responsibility to schedule tutoring appointments.

The Peer Tutoring Program offers peer tutoring services in the following disciplines:

  • Anthropology
  • Architecture, Art, Media, and Graphic Design
  • Chemistry
  • Communications
  • Criminal Justice
  • Economics
  • History
  • International Affairs
  • Linguistics
  • Modern Languages: American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

The Peer Tutoring Program also offers tutoring services for an introductory course in the College of Computer Science and Information Systems (CS1100).

Before requesting tutoring support, students should always seek assistance from faculty and/or TAs by contacting them by phone, email, or by attending their office hours. To find out the office hours of an instructor, students should refer to the course syllabus, visit the department’s website or office, or contact the instructor of the course via e-mail.