I. General Information
1. Course Title:
College Success Skills
2. Course Prefix & Number:
CCST 1510
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
This course is designed to promote student and lifelong success. Course content generally includes academic skills, life management skills, and information about school & community. Specific topics include: goal setting, learning styles, college reading strategies, study techniques, time management, test-taking skills, memory techniques, stress reduction, critical thinking applications, communication tips, assertiveness, relationship building, cultural diversity awareness, health and wellness issues, college and community resources, financial planning and the many personal issues that may affect college students.
5. Placement Tests Required:
6. Prerequisite Courses:
CCST 1510 - College Success Skills
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
CCST 1510 - College Success Skills
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
|
Name of Institution |
Course Number and Title |
Credits |
|
Century College |
STSC 1000 /New Student Seminar |
3 |
|
St. Cloud Technical & Community College |
READ 1112 /Study Strategies |
3 |
III. Course Purpose
Other - If this course is not required in a program or is not part of the MN Transfer Curriculum, it may be used for the purpose(s) listed below:
- Liberal Arts Elective
- Non-Transferrable General Education Course
- Technical Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate written communication skills |
Identify and interpret individual learning style. |
| Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Demonstrate an understanding of developing skills and techniques that will enrich you academically, professionally and personally. |
| Assess alternative solutions to a problem |
Adopt positive strategies and techniques that will enhance your strengths create and change habits, and a new vision to have rich, full, and rewarding experiences. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
|
Expected Outcome |
MnTC
Goal Area |
|
Students will be able to . . . .
1. Understand the elements of what it takes to succeed in college.
2. Have the ability to cultivate your skills, values, and attitudes to become a confident and capable student.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of developing skills and techniques that will enrich you academically, professionally and personally.
4. Develop a commitment to improving and empowering yourself to be successful in college and your future career.
5. Adopt positive strategies and techniques that will enhance your strengths create and change habits, and a new vision to have rich, full, and rewarding experiences.
6. Create your personal toolbox of effective ideas and skills. |
|
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
College Success Skills
2. Course Prefix & Number:
CCST 1510
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
This course is designed to promote student and lifelong success. Course content generally includes academic skills, life management skills, and information about school & community. Specific topics include: goal setting, learning styles, college reading strategies, study techniques, time management, test-taking skills, memory techniques, stress reduction, critical thinking applications, communication tips, assertiveness, relationship building, cultural diversity awareness, health and wellness issues, college and community resources, financial planning and the many personal issues that may affect college students.
5. Placement Tests Required:
6. Prerequisite Courses:
CCST 1510 - College Success Skills
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
CCST 1510 - College Success Skills
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
|
Name of Institution |
Course Number and Title |
Credits |
|
Century College |
STSC 1000 /New Student Seminar |
3 |
|
St. Cloud Technical & Community College |
READ 1112 /Study Strategies |
3 |
III. Course Purpose
3. Other - If this course does NOT meet criteria for #1 or #2 above, it may be used for the purpose(s) selected below:
- Liberal Arts Elective
- Non-Transferrable General Education Course
- Technical Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate written communication skills |
Identify and interpret individual learning style. |
| Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Demonstrate an understanding of developing skills and techniques that will enrich you academically, professionally and personally. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
|
Expected Outcome |
MnTC
Goal Area |
|
Students will be able to . . . .
1. Understand the elements of what it takes to succeed in college.
2. Have the ability to cultivate your skills, values, and attitudes to become a confident and capable student.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of developing skills and techniques that will enrich you academically, professionally and personally.
4. Develop a commitment to improving and empowering yourself to be successful in college and your future career.
5. Adopt positive strategies and techniques that will enhance your strengths create and change habits, and a new vision to have rich, full, and rewarding experiences.
6. Create your personal toolbox of effective ideas and skills. |
|
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Transitions to College
- Discover & Intention Journal Entry System
- Making the transition to higher education
- Classroom civility
- Succeeding in higher education
- College resources
- Extracurricular activities
- Link to the world of work
- Ways to change a habit
- Power Process: Discover what you want
- First Steps
- First step is truth is a key to mastery
- Discovery wheel
- Computer resources
- Learning styles
- Developing your multiple intelligences
- The master student
- The value of higher education
- Motivation
- Attitudes, affirmation, and visualizations
- Power Process: Ideas are Tools
- Time
- You’ve got the time
- The time monitor
- Setting and achieving goals
- ABC to-do list
- Strategies for planning
- Procrastination
- Ways to get the most out of NOW
- Cultural differences with time
- Using a long-term planner
- Power Process: Be Here Now
- Memory
- Take your memory out of the closet
- The memory jungle
- Memory techniques
- Using Q-cards to reinforce memory
- Set a trap for memory
- Keep your brain fit for life
- Remembering names
- Mnemonic devices
- Power Process: Love your problems and experience your barriers
- Reading
- Muscle reading
- Highlighting a textbook
- When reading is tough
- Reading faster
- Using a dictionary
- Research and your library
- Ebooks
- Critical thinking exercise
- Power Process: Notice your Pictures and Let them Go
- Notes
- The note taking process
- Observe, record, review
- What to do when you miss a class
- Meeting with your instructor
- When your instructor talks fast
- Taking notes while reading
- Online classes and taking notes
- Power Process: I create it All
- Tests
- Disarm tests
- What to do before a test
- How to cram
- Ways to predicate test questions
- Cooperative learning
- What to do during a test
- Answering essay questions
- F is for feedback not failure
- What to do after a test
- Perils of cheating
- Let go of test anxiety
- Math and science tests
- Power Process: Detach
- Thinking
- Critical thinking—a survival skill
- Becoming a critical thinker
- Attitudes of a critical thinker
- Finding the “aha”
- Ways to create ideas
- Common mistakes in logic
- Uncovering assumptions
- Ways to solve problems
- Choosing your major
- Asking questions—learning through inquiry
- Thinking critically about information on the internet
- Power Process: Find a Bigger Problem
- Communicating
- Communicating creates our world
- Communicating—keeping the channels open
- Choosing to listen
- Choosing to speak
- Ways to say “I”
- Developing emotional intelligence
- Managing conflict
- Ways to say “no”
- Ways to effective complaints
- Criticism can be constructive
- Collaborating for success
- Staying smart in cyberspace
- Text messaging etiquette
- Three phases of effective writing
- Academic integrity: avoid plagiarism
- Mastering public speaking
- Group presentations
- Power Process: Employ Your Word
- Diversity
- Waking up to diversity
- Diversity is real and valuable
- Building relationships across cultures
- Overcoming stereotypes with critical thinking
- Students with disabilities: know your rights
- Dealing with sexism and sexual harassment
- Strategies for nonsexist communication
- Leadership in a diverse world
- Power Process: Choose your conversations and your community
- Money
- Paths to financial freedom
- Budgeting
- Make more money
- Spend less money
- Managing money through tough times
- Take charge of your credit
- Common credit terms
- Money for the future
- Paying for college
- Education is worth it
- Your learning styles and money
- We live like royalty
- Power Process: Risk Being a Fool
- Health
- Wake up to health
- Choose your fuel
- Prevent and treat eating disorders
- Choose mental health
- Choose to rest
- Choose to stay safe
- Observe thyself
- Choose sexual health
- Develop self-efficacy
- Emotional pain is not a sickness
- Suicide is no solution
- Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs
- From dependence to recovery
- Succeed in quitting smoking
- Advertising can be dangerous to your health
- Power Process: Surrender
- What’s Next
- Create your career now
- Recognize your skills
- Sample career plans jumpstart your education with transferable skills
- Resumes and interviews
- Creating and using portfolios
- Surviving your first day on a new job
- Choosing schools …again
- Contributing: The Art of Selfishness
- Service Learning
- Define your Values, align your actions
- Revisiting your Discovery Wheel
- Power Process: Be It!