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Active as of Fall Semester 2015
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
On Course
2. Course Prefix & Number:
CCST 1570
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
The goal of this course is to help you grow academically and personally. This course is ideal for you if your academic and career goals are unclear or if you just want to learn specific life skills to utilize in your education and beyond. Topics include personal responsibility, self-motivation, self-management, and interdependence. You will have opportunities to grow in the ways you think, learn, and communicate.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
Writing Pre-College Level or Writing Introductory College Level or Writing College Level CLC or Writing College Level or Writing Honors College Level |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
CCST 1570 - On Course
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
CCST 1570 - On Course
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
III. Course Purpose
Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
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
- AA Degree Student Success Course
- Technical Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate written communication skills |
Write a personal success plan by defining their personal and academic goals and outlining the steps they must take to achieve them. |
| Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Demonstrate active listening and communication skills within a small group. |
| Assess alternative solutions to a problem |
Employ the Wise Choice Process to brainstorm a variety of solutions, and identify the solution(s) most likely to help them achieve their desired outcomes. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Demonstrate the ability to take personal responsibility for creating desired outcomes and experiences;
- Identify, manage, and increase self-motivation;
- Apply various self-management techniques;
- Describe the value of mutually supportive relationships;
- Recognize the difference between self-actualizing and self-defeating beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors;
- Discriminate among different learning styles, discover individual preferred learning styles, and determine ways to adapt to various learning contexts;
- Discuss effective strategies for managing emotions, reducing stress, and increasing a sense of well-being;
- Use campus and electronic resources effectively;
- Complete an academic plan; and
- Collaborate with others to discuss, analyze, and solve problems.
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Campus and electronic resources
- Campus resources
- StarID, D2L, student email
- Self-assessment
- Take it, discuss it, think and write about it, accept it
- Benefits of journaling and embracing change activities
- Accepting personal responsibility
- Creator and victim mindset and language
- Inner critic, inner defender, and inner guide
- Wise Choice Process
- Stinkin' thinkin'
- Consequences = activating events + beliefs
- Creating self-motivation
- Motivation = value x expectation of success
- Identifying academic and personal outcomes and experiences that promote success
- Goal setting, affirmation, and visualizing as methods for promoting success
- Developing an internal locus of control
- Mastering self-management
- Calendars
- Next action lists
- Tracking forms
- 32-day commitment
- Time quadrants
- Other techniques and strategies to sharpen focus and persistence with purposeful actions
- Employing interdependence
- Ways of relating (dependence, codependence, interdependence) and maturity
- Steps in the active listening process
- Respecting cultural differences
- Be assertive; say no
- Gaining self-awareness
- Recognizing when you're off course
- Understanding self-sabotage and unconscious forces
- Scripts = patterns + core beliefs
- Rewriting scripts and course corrections
- Adopting lifelong learning
- Growth mindset
- Discover preferred ways of learning
- Critical thinking
- Developing emotional intelligence
- Stress/stressors
- Healthy stress reduction for overwhelm, anger and resentment, fear and anxiety, sadness and depression
- Choosing new thoughts and behaviors to create flow
- Developing a self-care plan
- Next steps
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
On Course
2. Course Prefix & Number:
CCST 1570
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
The goal of this course is to help you grow academically and personally. This course is ideal for you if your academic and career goals are unclear or if you just want to learn specific life skills to utilize in your education and beyond. Topics include personal responsibility, self-motivation, self-management, and interdependence. You will have opportunities to grow in the ways you think, learn, and communicate.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
Writing Pre-College Level or Writing Introductory College Level or Writing College Level CLC or Writing College Level or Writing Honors College Level |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
CCST 1570 - On Course
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
CCST 1570 - On Course
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
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
- AA Degree Student Success Course
- Technical Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate written communication skills |
Write a personal success plan by defining their personal and academic goals and outlining the steps they must take to achieve them. |
| Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Demonstrate active listening and communication skills within a small group. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Demonstrate the ability to take personal responsibility for creating desired outcomes and experiences;
- Identify, manage, and increase self-motivation;
- Apply various self-management techniques;
- Describe the value of mutually supportive relationships;
- Recognize the difference between self-actualizing and self-defeating beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors;
- Discriminate among different learning styles, discover individual preferred learning styles, and determine ways to adapt to various learning contexts;
- Discuss effective strategies for managing emotions, reducing stress, and increasing a sense of well-being;
- Use campus and electronic resources effectively;
- Complete an academic plan; and
- Collaborate with others to discuss, analyze, and solve problems.
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Campus and electronic resources
- Campus resources
- StarID, D2L, student email
- Self-assessment
- Take it, discuss it, think and write about it, accept it
- Benefits of journaling and embracing change activities
- Accepting personal responsibility
- Creator and victim mindset and language
- Inner critic, inner defender, and inner guide
- Wise Choice Process
- Stinkin' thinkin'
- Consequences = activating events + beliefs
- Creating self-motivation
- Motivation = value x expectation of success
- Identifying academic and personal outcomes and experiences that promote success
- Goal setting, affirmation, and visualizing as methods for promoting success
- Developing an internal locus of control
- Mastering self-management
- Calendars
- Next action lists
- Tracking forms
- 32-day commitment
- Time quadrants
- Other techniques and strategies to sharpen focus and persistence with purposeful actions
- Employing interdependence
- Ways of relating (dependence, codependence, interdependence) and maturity
- Steps in the active listening process
- Respecting cultural differences
- Be assertive; say no
- Gaining self-awareness
- Recognizing when you're off course
- Understanding self-sabotage and unconscious forces
- Scripts = patterns + core beliefs
- Rewriting scripts and course corrections
- Adopting lifelong learning
- Growth mindset
- Discover preferred ways of learning
- Critical thinking
- Developing emotional intelligence
- Stress/stressors
- Healthy stress reduction for overwhelm, anger and resentment, fear and anxiety, sadness and depression
- Choosing new thoughts and behaviors to create flow
- Developing a self-care plan
- Next steps