Understanding Your College Experience

Part One: WELCOME TO YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE

1: The Essentials for College Success?

The College Experience?

Exploring Purpose and Setting Goals?

Self-Exploration and Career Planning

Academic Planning?

Making the Transition by Connecting with Others?

2: Cultivating Motivation, Resilience, and Emotional Intelligence?

The Importance of Motivation, Attitude, and Mindset?

Resilience and Grit?

Understanding Emotional Intelligence?

3: Managing Time, Energy, and Money?

Managing Your Time?

Managing Your Energy??

Managing Your Money?

4: Discovering How You Learn?

How People Learn?

The VARK Inventory?

The Myers?Briggs Type Indicator?

Multiple Intelligences?

When Learning Preferences and Teaching Methods Conflict?

Learning with a Learning Disability or Challenge?

Part Two: SUCCEEDING IN COLLEGE

5: Getting the Most Out of Class?

Become Engaged in Learning?

Prepare for Class?

Participate in Class?

Take Effective Notes?

6: Reading to Learn from College Textbooks?

A Plan for Active Reading??

Strategies for Reading Different Kinds of Textbooks?

Improving Your Reading?

Midterm Check In

Introduction

Mid-Term Check In Audit

7: Studying, Understanding, and Remembering?

Studying in College: Making Choices and Concentrating ?

How Memory Works?

Improving Your Memory?

Studying to Understand and Remember?

8: Taking Tests Successfully?

Getting Ready . . .??

Taking the Test?

Types of Tests??

Types of Questions??

Test Anxiety?

Academic Honesty and Misconduct

9: Developing Information Literacy and Communication Skills

Information Literacy??

Choosing, Narrowing, and Researching a Topic?

Using the Library?

Evaluating Sources?

Using Your Research in Writing?

The Writing Process??

Using Your Research in Presentations?

Part Three: YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS IN COLLEGE AND BEYOND

10: Thinking in College?

College-Level Thinking?

Developing Strong Thinking Skills??

Applying Your Critical-Thinking Skills?

Bloom's Taxonomy and the First Year of College?

11: Maintaining Wellness and Relationships in a Diverse World?

Understanding Wellness??

Managing Your Relationships??

Thriving in Diverse Environments?

12: Making the Right Career Choice?

Careers and the New Economy ?

Planning for Your Career?

Getting Experience??

Job Search Strategies?

Skills Employers Seek?

Staying on the Path to Success??