Discuss How Different Approaches to Learning Can Affect Student Success in Higher Education

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Career Program and Counseling (CPC) Fall 2013, 9-week term Instructor’s Name: Steve A Varela E-mail address: svsias@gmail.com Required Text(s)/Software/Tools: None – See Skydrive initially and Blackboard hereafter. Course Pre-requisites None, except for a heathy appetite to succeed. Course Description and Outcomes Course meets for eight weeks, convening for eight, 2-hour classes In this course students learn about career possibilities and education options before committing to a particular degree path. Topics include American culture and work life, the American educational system, courses of study and career paths, and popular, promising and special industries and sectors in the world economy. Students will learn to understand their skills and career interests. Course objective is to enable student to: * Develop their self-awareness, especially with respect to: * Strengths and areas for development * Career motivations * Develop skills to make them more employable * Prepare students to choose a major or program plan at one of the Consortium Universities. * Develop an independent spirit, learn to sort out problems on their own (suggest arranging a part of course around problem-solving skills and how to solve your real life problems in the US. For example, if you’re sick, what do you do? ) * Develop an active and supportive network * Assemble a University Portfolio for their March academic advising meeting that includes: * Family Education and Career Tree * Career Interest Profiler * Skills and Experience Worksheet * Resume Course Methodology Though classes, group discussions, active learning, and one-to-one conversations with instructors, students will acquire the knowledge, resources, and self-awareness necessary to make short-range plans and to assess

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