Course Descriptions

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

HD100 College Success and Survival 3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
Facilitates adjustment to the college environment. Focuses on self-assessment, personal development, educational goal setting and critical thinking. Includes interdisciplinary lectures, exposure to multiple modes of educational delivery, and structured exercises to turn individual talents into strengths.

HD112 Study Skills
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
Designed to increase the student's success in college by assisting them in obtaining skills necessary to reach their educational objectives. Students are introduced to time management strategies, note taking, library usage, problem solving, exam strategies, muscle reading, and learning style.

HD140 Career/Education Exploration
1 credit (1 lec hrs/wk)
Provides tools needed to make an informed career and educational decision. Includes interest testing; self-assessment of skills, values, and attitudes. Learn how to locate occupational information and relate it to making informed educational choices.

HD147 Decision Making
1 credit (1 lec hr/wk)
This course assists students to develop an awareness of their personal decision-making styles in order to make effective decisions and life choices in personal, social, academic and work settings. Introduces information on effective decision-making.

HD152 Stress Management
1 credit (1 lec hr/wk)
This course assists students to identify specific personal stressors, and develop skills that enable the students to more effectively deal with stress.

HD154 Self-Esteem
1 credit (1 lec hr/wk)
This course will provide students with an opportunity to define, assess and develop their self esteem. This course will provide multiple tools and processes to enhance self esteem and develop individual strengths.

HD204 Eliminating Self-Defeating Behaviors (Increasing Success Attributes)
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
This class is designed to assist college students of any age to experience greater success in both college and their personal lives. With the use of guided journal writing and interest/preference inventories, students will discover the skills and attitudes that will allow them to be happy and successful.
Prerequisite: HD100, HD112 or HD208.

HD208 Career/Life Plan
3 credits (3 lec hrs/wk)
Students learn a process for career selection, emphasizing development as an ongoing process. Attention is given to self-assessment (skills, interests, values, attitudes, motivational patterns), decision-making models, job and career research techniques (including electronic resources), and development of a personal action plan.

HD215 Transfer Success
1 credit (2 lec-lab hrs/wk)
This class is designed to assist students in the preparation for transfer to a
four-year institution. Course content includes development of strategies for choosing a transfer institution, identification of resources to assist in the transfer process, choice of majors, and funding sources.
Concurrent: CIS0593.

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