2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Dec 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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COLLG 115 Personal and Academic Success (5 credits)



Course Description
Students foster self-efficacy by reflecting on and modifying learning strategies, and applying holistic decision making toward personal, academic, and work goals. Students develop habits to impact financial and personal wellness. Students cultivate effective collaboration skills.

Course Content
A. Career research
B. Education planning
C. College services and resources
D. Information competency
E. Reading strategies and practices
F. Learning strategies
G. Holistic assessment preparation
H. Note taking
I. Fixed and growth mindsets
J. Brain plasticity
K. Metacognition and metacognitive reflection
L. Time management
M. Social capital
N. Communication and interaction with the college community
O. Small group and collaborative learning
P. Utilizing syllabi
Q. Personal interests, values, skills, and strengths
R. Goal setting
S. Teamwork and collaboration
T. Welllness
U. Financial literacy

Student Outcomes
1. Assess and develop self-efficacy in order to support success.

2. Assess and intentionally reflect on their interests, values, skills, and strengths in order to continually explore and affirm an education and career pathway.

3. Implement study strategies and self-monitoring habits in order to comprehend, retain, and apply learning.​

4. Navigate and use college resources and services in order to pursue their personal, academic, and career goals.

5. Engage with peers, instructors, and college community in order to build intercultural relationships that foster personal, academic, and career success.

6. Engage in formal and informal collaborative work.

7. Assess personal wellness and make changes that positively impact their wellness.

8. Analyze the fundamental elements of a budget and make decisions based upon the analysis.

Degree Outcomes
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
A. Personal Inventories
B. Instructor Observation
C. Exams and Quizzes
D. Daily Assignments
E. Essays
F. Portfolios
G. Journal Entries
H. Presentations
I. Self-Assessment
J. Group Projects



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