Purpose

The Transformar Mentorship Program emerges as a unique program that encourages students to strengthen their academic inquiry through the affirmation of their identity, intercultural skills and aptitudes, and interdisciplinary thinking. It will also motivate students to pursue and understand the complexity of ideas and their intersection with the social, cultural, economic, and political forces that affect and/or facilitate professional and academic development. Transformar students will do this by participating in mandatory group sessions in which they will learn about culture, identity, and interdisciplinary thinking and approach to decision-making and problem-solving.

Objectives

• To reinforce students' own cultural self-determination and understanding of social issues
• To strengthen students' own sense of their intersectional identity
• To learn cultural and traditional knowledge used to create ancient civilizations, as a complex social, cultural, political, and economic dynamic