Academic Success (ACAD)

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[1] Academic Success Courses (ACAD)

1101 EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER EXPLORATION FOR THE UNDECIDED During this course, students will explore and discover with the goal of identifying values, skills, strengths, and interests for the purpose of establishing and implementing an individual academic and career plan. The experiences in this course will be useful to students as they move toward more solid decisions in selecting academic majors, minors, and internships, and making career connections in the community.

1103 ACADEMIC STRATEGIES FOR COLLEGE SUCCESS Academic Strategies for College Success is designed to provide students with opportunities to learn strategies for academic success. The course will focus on four core areas: reading college-level texts, taking effective notes, developing effective study strategies, and taking tests.

1170 BETWEEN THE LINES: STRATEGIES FOR INTELLIGENT READING This course is designed to offer a book club experience in which students have the opportunity to read for pleasure while practicing strategies of engagement and comprehension. The course will focus on the enjoyment of reading as well as its benefits while helping students develop reading skills that will help them become more prolific and critical consumers of the written word.

1300 JOURNEYS TO SUCCESS: EXPLORING STRATEGIES FOR ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT This course is designed to explore the fundamentals of college success through academic topics such as setting short-term and long-term goals, developing non-cognitive skills for success, learning to learn, decreasing the negative effects of stress, and creating an academic and financial plan for completing college. This course is required for all conditionally admitted students and conditional-prep status students during their first enrollment period.

3101 CAREER AND LIFE PLANNING ACROSS THE LIFESPAN The purpose of this course is to expose students to the tools, information, and resources that will help them develop career and life planning skills. Students will learn about values clarification, career decision-making processes, financial management, and life transition strategies.