CLS 102 - Practicing Strategies for Academic Success

Description
This course is designed for students who wish to improve academic performance. The goal of the course is to develop critical learning skills necessary for the student to reach or remain in academic good standing. Students will learn how to apply learning strategies and to identify motives, attitudes, and behaviors that lead to college success.

Credit Hours: 2
Contact Hours: 2
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: None
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corequisite(s): None
Academic Program Prerequisite: None
Consent to Enroll in Course: No Department Consent Required
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: No
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
General Education Requirement:
None
General Education Learner Outcomes (GELO):
NA
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Create a plan for academic success.

2. Demonstrate time management strategies to include constructing a master schedule, creating an organized to do list, and showing evidence of using a planner.

3. Solve a given problem using a decision making process.

4. Identify locus of control.

5. Appraise listening, writing, reading, memory and organization skills, and construct strategies for improving them.

6. Identify personal preferred learning style and demonstrate ways to adapt learning material to the preferred learning style.

7. Name, explain, and demonstrate strategies to use when taking tests.

8. Analyze a stressful situation to include how it impacts academic performance and determine a plan of action.

9. Know and use active listening skills. (CS3)

10. Clearly and completely state and describe a problem/issue. (CT1)

11. Develop a plan to implement a solution to a problem or issue. (CT4)

12. Adapt to change by developing new ideas or finding improved ways of doing things. PR1)

13. Develop specific goals and plans to prioritze, organize, and accomplish work. (PR4)

14. Manage time effectively. (PR9)
Course Outline:
I. Attributes of a Successful College Student

A. Defining what it meansto be a successful college student

B. Motivation of a successful college student

C. Describe the skill set of a successful college student

D. Responibility of a successful college student

II. Building an Academic Success Plan

A. Identifying study skills strengths and weaknesses

B. Developing effective study skills strategies

C. Developing and implementing effective test taking strategies

D. Identifying challenges that are barriers to academic success

III. Goals Setting Strategies

A. Developing specific, challenging and attainable goals

B. Recognizing benefits of achieving goal

C. Identifying and locating college resources to assist with obtaining goal

Approved for Online and Hybrid Delivery?:
No
Instructional Strategies:
Lecture: 20-40%

Facilitated Discussion: 20-40%

In class activities/group work: 10-30%

Projects: 10-30%
Mandatory Course Components:
None
Equivalent Courses:
None

Accepted GRCC Advanced Placement (AP) Exam Credit: None
AP Min. Score: NA
Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: None

Course prepares students to seek the following external certification:
No
Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Mandatory Department Assessment Measures:
None

Course Type:
Elective- Offering designed to expand learning opportunities for degree seeking students. May or may not be required for students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture - 1:1
People Soft Course ID Number: 104159
Maximum Course Enrollment: 25
High School Articulation Agreements exist?: No
If yes, with which high schools?: NA
Non-Credit GRCC Articulation Agreement With What Area: No
Identify the Non Credit Programs this Course is Accepted: NA

School: Student Success
Department: College Learning Studies
Discipline: CLS
Faculty Credential Requirements:
Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement), Other (list below)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details:
CLS 102 instructors must hold a Master’s Degree or higher and have completed training adequate to understanding the course learning outcomes. This training includes, but is not limited to, Counseling, social work, psychology, or other human service professionals.

Last Revision Date Effective: 2017-03-03 20:30:58
Course Review & Revision Year: 2021-2022