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Our sessions connect students with peers and give students tools to succeed.

LARC Tutorial Leaders facilitate proven active-learning strategies, midterm/ final reviews and peer-to-peer collaboration to connect “what to learn” with “how to learn.”

 

  • How Tutorials Help Students
  • What are LARC Tutorials?
  • Winter 2026 Tutorial Schedule
  • Fees & Sponsorships
  • Enroll Online on ZotPASS

How Tutorials Help Students

  • Students of all academic learning abilities and levels gain the ability to:
    – apply concepts
    – practice problem solving
    – synthesize ideas
    – create study tools/ develop learning strategies
    – discuss questions regarding course content/ material,
  • Ultimately become independent with their own learning. 
  • Student Leadership Development – LARC Leaders are recruited and interviewed from among the top students who recently succeeded that course.
  • All LARC Leaders are trained in a course that is taught by the LARC Director & LARC Supplemental Instruction Coordinator and develops LARC Leader’s pedagogical content knowledge, facilitation and leadership skills.
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Supplemental Instruction

  • Supplemental Instruction (SI) was first developed in 1973 at the University of Missouri at Kansas City by Dr. Deanna Martin and focuses on student retention through facilitating peer-to-peer learning
  • Target traditionally difficult, key gateway and bottleneck courses; those that have a large number of students receiving a grade of C-, D, F or W.
  • The goal of LARC Supplemental Instruction Tutorials is to support students on their way to become successful independent learners.

LARC Tutorials

  • Tutorials are regularly scheduled, out-of-class group sessions facilitated by peers we refer to as LARC Leaders, who have previously succeeded in your course.

 

  • Tutorials meet for 50 minutes twice per week during academic school year and 110 minutes each during five-week summer sessions.
This image describes five steps to enrolling in LARC tutorials using the ZotPASS app.

Bio 94

  • Emerson, Gaut
    • Monday/Wednesday, 3pm-3:50pm @ALP 3750
    • Monday/Wednesday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3710
    • Monday/Wednesday, 5pm-5:50pm @ALP 3710
  • Aguilar-Roca
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 9am-9:50am @NS1 2211
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 10am-10:50am @NS1 2211
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 11am-11:50am @NS1 2211
  • Burley
    • Monday/Wednesday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3740
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3720
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3730

Bio 98

  • Goulding, Mcnulty
    • Monday/Wednesday, 11am-11:50am @ALP 3750
    • Monday/Wednesday, 2pm-2:50pm @ALP 3730
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 11am-11:50am @ALP 3740
  • Kadandale
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 2pm-2:50pm @ALP 3720
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 3pm-3:50pm @ALP 3720
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3720
  • Gonen, Morehourse
    • Monday/Wednesday, 11am-11:50am @ALP 3710
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 10am-10:50am @ALP 3750
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 11am-11:50am @ALP 3750

Bio E109

  • Lutterschmidt
    • Monday/Wednesday, 2pm-2:50m @ALP 3740
    • Monday/Wednesday, 3pm-3:50m @ALP 3740
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 10am-10:50am @ALP 3740

Chem 1A

  • Holton, Ge
    • Monday/Wednesday, 11am-11:50am @ALP 3720
    • Monday/Wednesday, 3pm-3:50pm @ALP 3720
    • Monday/Wednesday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3720

Chem 1B

  • Arasasingham
    • Monday/Wednesday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3730
    • Monday/Wednesday, 3pm-3:50pm @ALP 3700
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3730
    • Monday/Wednesday, 2pm-2:50pm @NS1 1206
    • Monday/Wednesday, 3pm-3:50pm @NS1 1206
    • Monday/Wednesday, 4pm-4:50pm @NS1 1206
  • Carlton
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 10am-10:50am @ALP 3720
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 11am-11:50am @ALP 3720
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3720
  • Shaka
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 2pm-2:50pm @ALP 3740
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 3pm-3:50pm @ALP 3740
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3740
  • Patterson
    • Monday/Wednesday, 10am-10:50am @ALP 3720
    • Monday/Wednesday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3720
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3720

Chem 51B

  • Bess
    • Monday/Wednesday, 9am-9:50am @ALP 3710
    • Monday/Wednesday, 10am-10:50am @ALP 3710
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 10am-10:50am @ALP 3730
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 11am-11:50am @ALP 3730
  • Guan
    • Monday/Wednesday, 9am-9:50am @ALP 3740
    • Monday/Wednesday, 11am-11:50am @ALP 3730
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3740
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3750
  • King
    • Monday/Wednesday, 10am-10:50am @NS1 2211
    • Monday/Wednesday, 3pm-3:50pm @NS1 2211
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3730
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 3pm-3:50pm @ALP 3730
  • Jarvo
    • Monday/Wednesday, 11am-11:50am @NS1 1206
    • Monday/Wednesday, 2pm-2:50pm @ALP 3720
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 10am-10:50am @ALP 3710
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3710

Econ 15B

  • Shirey
    • Monday/Wednesday, 10am-10:50am @ALP 3750
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3740
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3740

Math 1B

  • Lehman
    • Monday/Wednesday, 10am-10:50am @ALP 3740
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1pm-1:50pm @ICS 171
    • Monday/Wednesday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3740

Math 2A

  • Pelayo
    • Monday/Wednesday, 2pm-2:50pm @ALP 3710
    • Monday/Wednesday, 3pm-3:50pm @ALP 3710
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3700
    • Monday/Wednesday, 11am-11:50am @NS1 2211
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 10am-10:50am @NS1 1206
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 3pm-3:50pm @ALP 3750

Math 2B

  • Emilsdottir, Huber, Simonson
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3730
    • Monday/Wednesday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3730
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 2pm-2:50pm @ALP 3730
    • Monday/Wednesday, 12pm-12:50pm @NS1 1206
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1pm-1:50pm @NS1 1206
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 1pm-1:50pm @NS1 1206

Math 2D

  • Youssefpour, Chiu
    • Monday/Wednesday, 11am-11:50am @ALP 3700
    • Monday/Wednesday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3700
    • Monday/Wednesday, 3pm-3:50pm @ALP 3730

Physics 3A

  • Kirkby
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3750
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3750
    • Tuesday/Thursday, 2pm-2:50pm @ALP 3750

Physics 3B

  • Wu
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3700
    • Monday/Wednesday, 2pm-2:50pm @ALP 3700
    • Monday/Wednesday, 4pm-4:50pm @ALP 3700
  • Bahrehbakhsh
    • Monday/Wednesday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3750
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3750
    • Monday/Wednesday, 2pm-2:50pm @ALP 3750

Physics 7C

  • Taffard
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3710
    • Tuesday, Thursday, 2pm-2:50pm @ALP 3710
    • Tuesday, Thursday, 3pm-3:50pm @ALP 3710
  • Li
    • Monday/Wednesday, 1pm-1:50pm @NS1 2211
    • Tuesday, Thursday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3710
    • Tuesday, Thursday, 1pm-1:50pm @ALP 3710

Soc Sci 10B

  • Lui
    • Monday/Wednesday, 10am-10:50am @ALP 3730
    • Monday/Wednesday, 12pm-12:50pm @ALP 3710
    • Monday/Wednesday, 4pm-4:50am @ALP 3750

Fees & Sponsorships

  • A flat fee per quarter (per tutorial course) helps pay LARC leaders and supports our program. Fees are billed at the end of each quarter on your ZOT account. For more information, visit Fees and Policies.
  • Want a LARC for free? Reach out to various campus sponsors  to see if you are eligible for one or more sponsorships!

See if your lecture has a LARC Tutorial!

Please contact LARC at larc@uci.edu with any questions.