Human/Career Development

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1: COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS FOR OTHER CLASSES -Work on assignments for other classes
• Work on assignments for other classes
• Receive one-on-one alternate explanations and/or individualized academic support from the instructor
• Receive individualized tutoring assistance from the instructor to complete assignments
• SLO #2: IDENTIFY AND UTILIZE PERTINENT LEARNING STRATEGY SKILLS
• Learn different strategies in doing research for their assignments
• Learn strategies to complete assignment problems
• Learn different textbook reading strategies
• Learn effective ways of how to tackle assignments
• Apply their skills to edit and proof papers
• Learn and apply test preparation and test-taking strategies
• Gain better understanding of time management as it applies to their situation
• Apply their learning strategy skills based upon their preferred learning style in future academic courses
• Learn to utilize the various campus resources such as Tutoring and library services
• SLO #3: LEARN TO ADVOCATE FOR THEMSELVES AND HOW TO USE CAMPUS PROGRAM SERVICES, ACADEMIC ADJUSTMENTS AND SERVICES
• Build effective communication skills to engage with instructional and campus professionals
• Learn how to effectively work with peers, instructor, peers, or instructional staff
• Gain understanding and methods for accessing college program and services
• Apply self-advocacy skills to obtain accommodations and utilize these throughout their college experience
• Clearly understand DSPS services and accommodations as it applies to the individual

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1. Demonstrate student success strategies.
• Apply appropriate strategies for time management, goal setting, and note taking.
• Recognize personal learning styles.
• Apply study techniques to enhance classroom success.
• Apply test-taking strategies to prepare for and take exams.
• Develop analytical and problem solving skills with regard to circumstances occurring in personal, educational, and workplace environments.
• Identify college programs and services.
• Describe rights and responsibilities of a college student.
• Demonstrate an understanding of college procedures and policies (e.g. petitioning, probation, withdrawing, etc.).
• SLO #2. Demonstrate an ability to manage stress and create a lifestyle balance.
• Demonstrate ability to apply, at a basic level, principles and practices of stress management.
• Apply techniques to improve and enhance physical and emotional wellness.
• Identify healthy support networks.
• SLO #3. Analyze attitudes, strengths and motivation toward academic goals.
• Identify self through communication and understanding as a racial person in a diverse environment.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1. Demonstrate student success strategies.
• Learn how to set personal and academic goals and maintain the motivation to achieve them.
• Develop a personalized student educational plan (SEP).
• Identify the locations and become knowledgeable about the services provided by the critical student support service programs.
• Learn and practice the basic skills needed to be appropriately assertive and develop and maintain positive interpersonal relationships.
• SLO #2. Demonstrate an ability to manage stress and create a lifestyle balance.
• Explain the principles and tools of time and stress management and demonstrate skill in the application of the techniques of time and stress management.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1. Demonstrate student success strategies.
• Demonstrate the skills, attitudes, and abilities needed to be an informed and successful college student.
• Demonstrate appropriate time management and goal setting skills.
• Describe personal learning style and how it impacts study methods.
• Apply note-taking methodology and incorporate these techniques into lecture notes
• Learn how to utilize the Survey, Question, Read, Recite & Write, Review (SQ4R) reading technique and know how to systematically mark and take study notes on a college level textbook.
• Recognize the components of memorization and then employ memory and concentration techniques.
• Demonstrate test-taking strategies including how to prepare for, and take exams.
• Demonstrate the ability to use basic library resources.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1. Analyze principles of decision making.
• Apply decision making principles to career planning.
• Describe personal decision-making style.
• SLO #2. Describe relevant aspects of career and life planning.
• Identify students' interests, personal characteristics, skills and work values and how those relate to career and life planning.
• Explain the organization of the world of work.
• SLO #3. Demonstrate skills in researching accurate and current occupational information.
• Demonstrate ability to use Career Services.
• Use appropriate resources to obtain information about the changing labor market and its impact upon career planning strategies.
• Distinguish between primary and secondary sources of labor market information.
• SLO #4. Describe the goal-setting process and application to life and career planning.
• Identify occupations/occupational clusters consistent with students' interests, skills, work values, personal characteristics.
• Identify a major or majors that are consistent with occupations/occupational clusters.
• Create, or update, as appropriate, an educational plan consistent with occupational goals.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• DEVELOP SELF DISCOVERY AND UNDERSTANDING (SLO #1)
• Evaluate various self-discovery assessment techniques
• Analyze learning styles such as auditory, visual and kinesthetic
• DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING AND LIFE PLANNING SKILLS (SLO #2)
• Demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills
• Apply effective time management, study skills and life planning techniques
• Incorporate interpersonal relationship skills and conflict resolution strategies
• Differentiate factors involved in life planning and career decision making
• LOCATE AND UTILIZE CAMPUS RESOURCES (SLO #3)
• Identify and investigate various campus resources, including programs and support services
• Demonstrate information competency

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• USE THE COLLEGE'S LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS). (SLO #1)
• locate content available within the college's LMS.
• contribute to online discussion taking place within the college's LMS.
• complete assessments conducted using tools available in the college's LMS.
• DEMONSTRATE SKILLS THAT SUPPORT SUCCESS IN AN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. (SLO #2)
• create a personal schedule that includes time for online coursework.
• conceive an online identity through regular participation in class discussion.
• cooperate effectively in online group activities.
• ASSESS ONLINE LEARNING ISSUES. (SLO #3)
• recommend guidelines for ethical behavior in an online learning environment.
• analyze information found online.
• evaluate the effects of emerging technologies on the online learning environment.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1 Learn about the many facets of the process of career decision-making.
• Discard the misconception that a career decision will be one big revelation and adopt the positive understanding that career planning is a lifelong process.
• SLO #2 Engage in self-assessments identifying values, skills, interests, personality characteristics and their relationship to the world of work.
• Acquire an awareness of how personality preferences may impact career choice.
• Clarify job values in order to effectively consider the trade-offs among your career choices.
• Identify skills most wanted to use in a career.
• Self identify top interest categories and/or areas.
• SLO #3 Describe the goal-setting process and apply it to their own life and career planning.
• Locate major and career resources appropriate to career goals.
• Gain an awareness of personal decision-making style.
• Understand particular obstacles to career decision-making.
• SLO #4 Formulate an academic/occupation plan employing all information gathered.
• Become familiar with resources for obtaining occupational information.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1 DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING AND APPLICATION OF PROFESSIONAL WORKPLACE BEHAVIOR.
• Understand the effects time, stress, and organizational management have on performance.
• Demonstrate an understanding of consistently practicing ethics and confidentiality in a workplace.
• Examine the career/life planning process and relate its relevance to the student.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic communication tools and their appropriate use.
• Demonstrate an understanding of workplace etiquette.
• SLO #2 DESCRIBE THE CAREER/LIFE PLANNING PROCESS AND RELATE ITS RELEVANCY TO ONE'S CAREER.
• Link personal goals to long term achievement.
• Display an understanding of creating a professional first impression.
• Understand how networking is a powerful job search tool.
• Understand necessary elements of a résumé.
• Understand the importance of interview preparation.
• Identify how continual learning increases career success.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO 1: EVALUATE INDIVIDUAL STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES FOR LEARNING, AND DESCRIBE STRATEGIES AND APPROPRIATE EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS TO FACILITATE ACADEMIC SUCCESS.
• Describe the rationale behind specific learning strategies and accommodations.
• Identify and apply strategies for academic and personal success: life planning skills, organization, time management, self-advocacy, general and adaptive technology, critical thinking, interpersonal communication, and personal wellness.
• Locate and utilize applicable campus and community resources, online resources, and study groups.
• SLO 2: DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF CAMPUS POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.
• SLO 3: ANALYZE THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MOTIVATION AND GOAL SETTING TO CHANGE MOTIVATION AND SET APPROPRIATE EDUCATIONAL AND LIFE GOALS.
• SLO 4: EXAMINE THE HUMAN MEMORY SYSTEM AND APPLY MEMORY STRATEGIES COMPATIBLE WITH PERSONAL LEARNING STYLE.
• SLO 5: RECOGNIZE AND UTILIZE SPECIFIC READING, WRITING, MATH, TEST-TAKING, AND NOTE-TAKING STRATEGIES AND ACCOMMODATIONS.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1: Actively engage in intellectual inquiry beyond that required in order to pass a course of study (College Wide Learning Outcome – Area 4).
• Discuss and outline a proposal of study (that can be accomplished within one semester term) with a supervising instructor qualified within the discipline.
• Design an independent study (to be completed individually or by collaboration of a small group) to foster special knowledge, skills, and experience that are not available in any one regularly scheduled course.
• Use information resources to gather discipline-specific information.
• SLO #2: Utilize modes of analysis and critical thinking to apply theoretical perspectives and/or concepts in the major discipline of study to significant problems and/or educational activities (College Wide Learning Outcome – Area 3).
• Analyze and apply the knowledge, skills and experience that are involved in the independent study to theoretical perspectives and/or concepts in the major discipline of study.
• Explain the importance of the major discipline of study in the broader picture of society.
• SLO #3: Communicate a complex understanding of content matter of the major discipline of study (College Wide Outcome – Area 3).
• Demonstrate competence in the skills essential to mastery of the major discipline of study that are necessary to accomplish the independent study.
• SLO #4: Identify personal goals and pursue these goals effectively (College Wide Outcome – Area 4).
• Utilize skills from the “academic tool kit” including time management, study skills, etc., to accomplish the independent study within one semester term.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Provide a method of instruction which involves a student tutor and assists one or more students who need special supplemental instruction in the subject or skill.
• demonstrate essential study skills.
• effectively utilize available campus learning resources.
• demonstrate a positive attitude toward continued learning in the subject area.