ST SK 110 - College Success Strategies

Credits: 5
Emphasizes development of necessary skills for successful completion of college courses in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Provides techniques and strategies to improve time management, memory, note-taking, textbook reading techniques, outlining, mapping, learning styles, use of library, test preparation, and test taking. Focuses on how individuals become independent learners and develop critical thinking skills.

Prerequisite: Eligible for READ 104, or concurrent enrollment in READ 094.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Identify and evaluate essential study skills.
Identify strategies to create a successful and satisfactory experience at college.
Describe specific methods for managing time, note taking, test taking, and effective written and verbal communication.
Match resources that are available on campus and in the community that can assist students

Program Outcomes
Demonstrate college-level reading skills by summarizing, analyzing, interpreting, synthesizing, and evaluating college texts; and develop an awareness of the approaches writers use for different audiences, genres, and rhetorical situations.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.