ACA 100 - Student Success

1 credit hour -
Explore college academic support services and faculty expectations. Examine study skills, note taking, strengthening memory and concentration, and time management. Assess your own learning style, choose a career path, set goals and develop an educational plan. Transition to college and develop tools to ensure your academic success.

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Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Investigate different learning styles
- Analyze personal management of time, energy and wellness
- Evaluate learning styles and apply them to life-long learning
- Examine personal and educational priorities
- Demonstrate effective instructor-student behaviors
- Develop an individual educational plan and explore career options
- Demonstrate knowledge of college resources (e.g. Library, Academic Support Services, Student Services) by integrating the use of those services in their individual educational plan
- Appraise principles of learning and forgetting and practice mnemonic devises and concentration techniques
- Apply lecture note taking and textbook studying techniques
- Formulate test taking strategies for objective and essay exams
- Examine critical thinking techniques and demonstrate those techniques
Manage time and energy better
- Review time management principals and techniques
- Examine how students’ time is currently spent
- Practice prioritizing concepts
- Plan short-term and long-term goals
Strengthen memory and concentration
- Review current memory and concentration concepts
- Explore memory enhancing techniques
- Use mnemonic devices to improve short-term memory
Use effective textbook studying techniques
- Review current textbook reading and studying concepts
- Employ reading strategies to improve speed and comprehension
Take useful notes
- Review a variety of note-taking concepts
- Practice the ‘observe, record and review’ process of note-taking
- Synthesize new strategies and techniques into students’ own note-taking skills
Employ test taking strategies
- Manage test review time effectively
- Create test review tools
- Study methods to predict test questions
- Plan a test-taking strategy, including what to do during a test
Improve critical thinking skills
- Review current critical thinking concepts
- Recognize the value of creative thinking in improving critical thinking skills
- Explore critical thinking processes
- Identify ways to uncover assumptions, debunk logical fallacies, solve problems and make decisions
- Apply new skills to practical issues
Utilize college resources effectively
- Recognize the need to use college resources
- Identify available college resources
Develop career and educational goals
- Review goal setting strategies
- Analyze the connection between education and profession
- Outline potential career paths
- Identify career and educational resources
- Develop an educational and a career plan
Recognize wellness concepts relating to educational achievement
- Integrate appropriate instructor-student behaviors
- Explore the concept of diversity and individual differences with the community
- Investigate decision making, motivation, procrastination, self-esteem and self-awareness concepts

Core Competencies
Core 1 Communication Core 3 Information Literacy Core 5 Self Management Core 10 Innovative and Critical Thinking

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