UC 1100 - Learning Strategies

• Students will become aware of various factors affecting their abilities to concentrate on their academic coursework. They will describe ways to manage the stress levels in their new, independent lives.
• Students will demonstrate how to set and achieve short-term and long-term academic, personal, and career related goals.
• Students will demonstrate how to take efficient lecture notes using at least three different formats and will develop useful techniques for studying and learning from each format.
• Students will develop and apply critical reading and thinking skills to reason-based arguments. They will develop decision-making skills for use while in college and in their future lives.
• Students will develop and apply strategies for taking objective, essay, and problem-based exams.
• Students will develop strategies to improve both the learning and recall of information at all levels of learning.
• Students will identify their personal learning styles and will apply this knowledge to the various teaching styles they will encounter at college.
• Students will use library and internet resources for academic research and will evaluate the respective quality of such information.
• Students will use the various levels of learning (from factual and applied to analysis and synthesis) to meet the expectations of college level learning.
• Students will use various reading and study systems, such as SQ3R, and will apply these techniques to become more efficient readers of their textbooks.
• Students will use various time management strategies by developing weekly and semester length time management plans.