INTS1150

Strategies (including tools and skill development) to help students create greater success in college and in life are introduced in this course. The course provides an interactive environment for students to identify their motivations and opportunities for personal growth, engage in academic and career goal and decision making, and explore campus resources and services. Through these tools, skills, resources, and services, students are empowered to take ownership and control of their academic and personal life outcomes and experiences.Student Learning Outcomes

• recognize how to take personal responsibility, gaining greater control over the outcomes and experiences created both in college and in life
• contrive greater inner motivation by discovering their own personally meaningful goals
• identify and employ numerous strategies for taking control of their time and energy, allowing them to move more effectively and efficiently toward the accomplishment of their goals and dreams
• create and develop mutually supportive relationships that will support them to achieve their goals and dreams as they assist others to achieve theirs
• identify and revise self-defeating patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion as well as unconscious limiting beliefs
• recognize and use effective strategies for managing distressing emotions and increasing an inner sense of well being and happiness
• describe how to develop self-acceptance, self-confidence, self-respect, self-love, and unconditional self-worth
• demonstrate improved writing skills through the extensive writing practice offered by guided journal entries
• define methods, tools, and thinking skills essential for analyzing and solving problems in academic, professional, and personal lives
• identify the personal qualities and skills that employers identify as essential for excelling in the world of work
• synthesize identified services, resources, tools, and skills for individual success