The Office of Undergraduate Research is offering two courses this fall:
OURS100: Entering Research - Fall 2025
OURS100: Entering Research is a one-credit, half-term, asynchronous course designed to prepare and guide undergraduate students from any major through the process of finding their first research experience at UMD.
Students interested in being prepared to find and contact a research mentor by the end of the half-semester course.Who Should Take OURS100: Entering Research?
Students with at least three semesters remaining before graduation with limited or no prior research experience.
Students from any and all majors at UMD.Learn more about this course on OUR's website.
OURS308: Peer Mentorship - Supporting Students Entering Research- Fall 2025
OURS308: Peer Mentorship - Supporting Students Entering Research is a one-credit, half-term peer mentorship experience that gives undergraduate researchers a unique opportunity to further develop their leadership capacities while serving as peer mentors to students in the introductory course OURS100: Entering Research.
Students eager to support other students interested in research.Who Should Take OURS308: Peer Mentorship - Supporting Students Entering Research?
Students able to commit to working with a small group of peer mentees for half a term.
Students in all fields of study and areas of research.
Students with considerable experience conducting undergraduate research with a faculty mentor at UMD or another university.
