PY 100 - Strategies for College and Life Success

Description
This course is designed to assist students in becoming active learners through self-assessment, self-exploration, skill development, and building an understanding of the college environment. This class uses psychology to help students explore, understand, and problem solve larger life issues that may be interfering with their success as a learner while offering tools and techniques intended to improve college and life success. This is not an introduction to psychology class.

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours: 3
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?: Yes
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
Programs Where This Course is a Requirement:
None

General Education Requirement:
None
Course Learning Outcomes:

The student will describe how to take personal responsibility, gaining greater control over the outcomes and experiences that he or she creates both in college and in life.
The student will demonstrate greater inner motivation by discovering and describing his or her own personally meaningful goals and dreams.
The student will organize and apply numerous strategies for taking control of his or her time and energy, allowing the student to move more effectively and efficiently toward the accomplishment of his or her goals and dreams.
The student will explain how to develop mutually supportive relationships that will support his or her to achieve goals and dreams as he or she assists others to achieve theirs.
The student will analyze and revise his or her self-defeating patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion as well as his or her unconscious limiting beliefs.
The student will design powerful process of learning that will enable him of her to get better grades in college and be an effective life-long learner.
The student will discuss effective strategies for managing distressing emotions and increasing his or her inner sense of well being and happiness.
The student will create a personal model of how to develop self-acceptance, self-confidence, self-respect, self-love, and unconditional self-worth.
The student will demonstrate his or her writing skills through the extensive writing practice offered by the student’s guided journal entries.
The student will apply enhanced thinking skills essential for analyzing and solving problems in his or her academic, professional, and personal life.
The student will describe and justify the personal qualities and skills that employers identify as essential for excelling in the world of work.
Identify the best solution to a problem or issue.

13. Manage time effectively.
Course Outline:
I. SUCCESS

What is Success
The Power of Choice
Believing in Yourself: Develop Self-Acceptance
Wise Choices in College: Learning College Customs

II. ACCEPTING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

Responsibility and Choice
Mastering Creator Language
Making Wise Decisions
Believing in Yourself: Change Your Inner Conversation
Wise Choices in College: Effective Reading

III. DISCOVERING SELF-MOTIVATION

Creating Inner Motivation
Designing a Compelling Life Plan
Discover Your Dreams
Wise Choices in College: Effective Note Taking

IV. MASTERING SELF-MANAGEMENT

Acting on Purpose
Employing Self-Management Tools
Believing in Yourself: Develop Self-Confidence
Wise Choices in College: Effective Writing

V. EMPLOYING INTERDEPENDENCE

Developing Mutually Supportive Relationships
Ways to Relate
Getting Help from Others
Strengthening Relationships with Active Listening
Wise Choices in College: Effective Studying

VI. GAINING SELF-AWARENESS

Recognizing When You are Off Course
Identifying Your Scripts
The Impact of Our Beliefs
Wise Choices in College: Effective Test Taking

VII. ADOPTING LIFE-LONG LEARNING

Becoming an Active Learner
How the Human Brain Learns
Change and Lifelong Learning
Believing in Yourself: Develop Self-Respect
Wise Choices in College: Effective Memorizing

VIII. DEVELOPING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Understanding Emotional Intelligence
Knowing Your Own Emotions
Reducing Stress
Creating Flow
Wise Choices in College: Effective Money Management

IX. STAYING ON COURSE TO YOUR SUCCESS

Planning Your Next Steps

Approved for Online and Hybrid Delivery?:
Yes-Hybrid Delivery
Instructional Strategies:
Lecture: 20-50%

Facilitated Discussion: 10-30%

Group Work: 10-50%

Assisted Individual Work: 10-30%

Guest Presentations: 0-20%
Mandatory Course Components:
Lecture Group Process
Equivalent Courses:
None

Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: None

Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Course Aligned with ARW/IRW Pairing: N/A

Mandatory Department Assessment Measures:
End of semester standard assessment designed to measure student learning in six content areas: accepting personal responsibility, discovering self-motivation, mastering self-management, employing interdependence, gaining self-awareness, and developing emotional intelligence.

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
Total Lecture Hours Per Week: 3
People Soft Course ID Number: 104662
Course CIP Code: 42.01
Maximum Course Enrollment: 24
School: School of STEM
Department: Psychology
Discipline: PY
Faculty Credential Requirements:
Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement), Other (list below)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details:
1) Faculty must have completed training in the specific content and approach to teaching employed in this class. 2) A formal grounding in psychology adequate to understanding the course learning outcomes. 3) A graduate degree in psychology, counseling, or social work.

Major Course Revisions: N/A
Last Revision Date Effective: 20230221T11:08:23
Course Review & Revision Year: 2027-2028