UNST 1000 Orientation to College

This course will provide students with the opportunity to take responsibility for their education and give them specific tools to be successful. This course will enable students to identify resources, policies, and career planning tools that will help them during their college career. Additionally, this course will help students understand their learning styles, CWC policies, and personal goals. (3 lect.) UNST

Credits

3 credits

Transfer Status

Transferable to UW.

Major Topics

  • CWC support services
  • School and community resources
  • Library use
  • Financial aid
  • Academic advisors
  • College survival skills
  • CWC academic programs and policies
  • Personal missions, goals, and motivation
  • Study skills
  • Note-taking skills
  • Test-taking strategies
  • Online and technology learning tools
  • Time management
  • Oral and written communication
  • Reading improvement
  • Money management
  • Health attitudes
  • Learning styles
  • Critical thinking
  • Cultural competencies
  • Stress and Conflict management
  • Career planning

Outcomes

In order to successfully complete this course, the student will:

1. Identify/use resources and tools available to them to help them succeed in college and in life.

1a. Create a relationship with advisor, library, and financial aid office

1b. Navigate Moodle, My Advisor, and Cloud Mail

1c. Use and assess Google docs, and basic Google searches

2. Identify academic policies, procedures and programs at CWC.

2a. Identify CWC support services around campus and through CWC online

2b Locate and view the CWC student handbook, course catalog, and semester schedule of courses

3. Create a personal mission statement and realistic goals

3a. Identify the qualities necessary to thrive in college and the workplace

3b. Complete the Get Real with Your Goals activity

3c. Identify time management strategies to achieve specified goals

4. Assess their own learning needs

4a. Complete and critique the Discovery Wheel and Learning Style Inventory

4b. Identify VARK learning styles, Multiple Intelligence strengths, and Personality attributes – and identify study habits and communication skills based on these inventories

5. Describe and use skills, attitudes and behaviors necessary to succeed in a collegiate multi-cultural environment

5a. Explain how memories are stored and accessed and identify study aids to increase retention of material

5b. Reading: demonstrate application of a reading comprehension strategy, and complete a career research assignment through library and internet resources

5c. Diversity/ Communication: Identify different conflict management strategies across cultural groups- Develop a relationship with a businessperson and/or person on campus that relates to career development – Pre-Interview Preparation and Conclusion Paper

5d. Demonstrate a note-taking method after observing a class of interest on campus, and/or attendance of a community/ government/ collegiate meeting

5e. Use Critical thinking to: Evaluate Job Opportunities and Discuss media/ social media critical thinking skills

5f. Testing- identify test taking skills and discuss methods to overcome test anxiety

5g. Financial skills: Calculate the costs of education, and potential career profits (education by the hour) and Identify available financial aid opportunities and deadlines

5h. Identify and discuss healthy/ harmful behaviors

6. Locate and use career planning tools

6a. Complete and Critique the Jung Typology Test

6b. Meet with advisor and evaluate CWC Program Evaluation in order to develop an academic plan

6c. Create a resume

6d. Write a two page Career Objectives paper

Other Information

Any information placed here must be adhered to by all instructors:

Weekly lesson plans for all sections of UNST 1000 will be provided by the Liberal Arts division the content of which must be covered in class.