ST SK 110 - College Success

Credits: 2
Provides students with mentors and tailored tools, strategies, and self-reflective experiences that will help them identify and develop their unique strengths while also recognizing and elevating the skills of others with varied lived experiences in order to excel personally, academically, and professionally while at Green River College (GRC) and beyond.

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

Operate confidently as a culturally aware college student on GRC’s virtual and physical campuses with clear comprehension of college terms and resources, and proactive engagement with campus community.
Demonstrate professionalism and sensitivity in face-to-face and online interactions with others including peers, staff, and faculty.
Practice academic success strategies, including academic goal setting, syllabus literacy, time management skills, note-taking, study, and test-taking skills.
Select several personal-toolkit and self-advocacy strategies that increase mental, physical, and emotional well-being and support healthy social and academic networks, including values exercises, time- and stress- management tools, and effective communication approaches.
Prepare actionable short- and long-term academic and career goals with the support of key campus resources (academic, transfer, and career planning).

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.
Diversity and Equity - In order to advance equity and social justice, students will be able to examine their own and others’ identities, behaviors, and/or cultural perspectives as they connect to power, privilege, and/or resistance.