Everyone needs a mini or two. 
Three minis are available for Fall 2006!
 

Prof 112 Study Skills: Resource Management
Mini Session I MWF 11:00-11:50 Alumni Hall Rm 222
Mini Session I MWF 01:00-01:50 Alumni Hall Rm 222

Professional Studies 112 is both a self-reflective and a strategic course that allows students to assess their own strengths and weaknesses in areas of motivation, learning preferences, and personal resource management, as well as to develop strategies for utilizing areas of strength to develop areas of weakness.  The course targets fundamental areas of student learning, which, unexplored and undeveloped, tend to cause the greatest levels of academic difficulty.  Topics covered include

  • motivation

  • time management

  • multiple intelligences

  • stress management

  • concentration

  • memory techniques

  • task analysis

  • grade tracking.

Prof 113 Study Skills: Textbook Reading

Mini Session II MWF 11:00-11:50 Alumni Hall Rm 222
Mini Session II MWF 01:00-01:50 Alumni Hall Rm 222

Through reflection upon the premises of college learning and through guided practice of established methods, students will learn to identify organizational patterns and emphasis cues in college texts and will learn to use paragraph reading tools effectively.  Students will also develop a systematic, well-organized approach to effective note-taking.  Topics covered will include

  • main ideas

  • major/minor details

  • patterns of organization

  • SQ3R

  • Cornell note-taking

  • schematic mapping.

Prof 114 Study Skills: Test-Taking

Mini Session III MWF 11:00-11:50 Alumni Hall Rm 222

Mini Session III MWF 01:00-01:50 Alumni Hall Rm 222

Even students who work very hard to prepare for an exam often leave the test feeling that they have studied the wrong things or that their performance has not truly reflected the level at which they have learned the material.  Prof 114 is designed to address various areas of student test taking skills.  Topics covered will include

  • task analysis

  • memory strategies

  • organization

  • effective reviewing

  • Bloom's Taxonomy

  • mock tests

  • test analysis

  • essay test terminology

  • "How to Cram Effectively."

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