Applied Arts Peer Coaching

Peer Coaching in Applied Arts is a semester-long companion course to Applied Arts. Coaches are general education students who work alongside the Applied Arts artists in the same 46-minute period, every day, for the full semester. The coach course follows the artist course week for week: same four units, same weekly rhythm, same yearly theme.

The course is intentionally low stakes. Coaches do not need art experience, and the workload is short weekly logs, a small sample book, and one reflection per unit. The real work happens in the room: learning to support an artist’s independence, choices, and voice without taking over. In this course, this role is called the “peer coach” or “coach” and the Applied Arts students are called artists.