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 career goals are unclear or if you’ve reached a point in your life where you feel “stuck”. 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:
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.
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 |
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; 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 career goals are unclear or if you’ve reached a point in your life where you feel “stuck”. 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:
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
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 |
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; 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