College Learning Center

The Learning Center offers the following courses:

Prof 111:  College Reading Strategies Students will explore, practice and develop the engaged reading strategies necessary for success in college level reading. Within the environment of a supportive reading circle, readers will have the opportunity to work with a variety of texts, including short stories, poems, articles, novels, internet sources, and college textbooks.

Prof 120:  College Learning Strategies  a semester-long, 3 credit elective course for students who need to refine their skills in writing and study skills. 

Prof 112 Study Skills: Resource Management -- A five-week mini, 1 credit elective course, 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 -- A five-week mini, 1 credit elective course, Professional Studies 113, through reflection upon the premises of college learning and through guided practice of established methods, teaches students to identify organizational patterns and emphasis cues in college texts and 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 -- A five-week mini, 1 credit elective course, Professional Studies 114 helps students prepare for test-taking.  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."

PROF 221, 222 and 223  Becoming a Master Tutor -- In this course sequence, students will develop the interpersonal communication and teaching skills necessary for successful tutoring.   We'll talk about how to handle difficult situations and how to approach students in multiple ways to help them really learn their material.
Prerequisites: Students are required to provide a letter of recommendation from a professor and/or obtain the permission of the C.A.D.E. director to register. The student must have a B+ or better average in the subject in which they intend to tutor.

Math 001:  Topics include whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, application problems, introduction to exponents and radicals, polynomials, solving equations, rectangular coordinate system, ratios, proportions, perc ents, measurement systems, and geometric figures and concepts.

Math 002:    Topics include pre-algebra review, operations with real numbers, solving equations, application problems, inequalities, operations with polynomials, factoring, rational expressions and equations, graphing concepts, systems of equations, radical expressions and equations, and quadratic equations.

CADE also offers the following services:

Professional Tutoring: individual tutoring by request for students desiring general reading/study skills improvement. Often parallels peer tutoring for specific help with content area courses.

Peer Tutoring: individual and/or group tutoring by request for most 100-level courses.  Most requests for peer tutors can be accommodated.

Peer Group Leader training:  we will train a group leader for any specific 200-level course so that your group study sessions can be more productive.

Individual tutoring: also available in the areas of math, test anxiety, study group formation, spelling and vocabulary as well as all areas of study skills and time management.

Small Group Workshops in time management, textbook and lecture notetaking and te st taking skills available by appointment.

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