Mentoring Graduate Students - Roles and Responsibilities
Graduate student mentorship is a partnership that takes many shapes, including (but
are not limited to): teaching, research, professional and personal development plus
guidance of teaching fellows/teaching assistants. This guide is intended as a starting
point with resources for both faculty and graduate students to work together across
our diverse degree programs in the UNT College of Music and to navigate graduate degree
programs. Each semester, the Director of Graduate Studies provides an orientation
which summarizes much of this information.
The CoM enrolls approximately five hundred graduate students across its seven degree
programs, each with specific requirements. This Mentoring Handbook provides a brief
guide to relevant terminology and procedures, which may differ in ways large and small
from those of other institutions. It focuses on the mentoring of MM and DMA students,
who make up the bulk of our graduate student population. The other degree programs
mentioned above typically feature analogous requirements.