COL 101 - Strengthening Navigational Skills

3 Credits

You belong here. So do your classmates. In this course, you’ll build connections with other students, faculty, and staff, and get to know resources and degree pathways at the college. Together, we’ll build strategies for effective learning, goal setting, and self-care for college. With a recognition of your own strengths and support systems, you’ll create plans for funding and your degree and career goals.

Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Summer Day, Evening, Online
Fall Day, Evening
Winter Day, Evening, Online
Spring Day, Evening, Online

Designed to Serve This course is intended for students in their first 30 credits of college courses who have not taken a college success course yet.
Active Date 20210403T10:08:00

Grading System Decimal Grade
Class Limit 20
Contact Hours: Lecture 33
Total Contact Hours 33
Degree Distributions:
Restricted Elective Yes
Course Outline

Building community, self and others: community building activities
Campus systems, resources, and pathways: college academic terminology, college resources, degree and pathways
Funding and financial planning: identify sources of support at Highline,obligations associated with various funding types, create financial plan
College success skills: Effective learning and time management strategies to manage academic load
Information Literacy: Learning to use library and internet resources with confidence
Career planning: career and personality assessments (WOIS, Career Coach, etc.), job fairs, relation to personal and cultural capital
Goal setting: identify pathway, educational plan for career interest
Social and emotional wellness: imposter syndrome, impact of trauma, mental wellness, personal self-care strategies they can employ to maintain a healthy self-concept.
Identity development, power and privilege: different identity development theories, intersections of identity, environmental barriers influenced by the student’s personal identities
Strength-based approach: study past achievements and accomplishments, write reports describing how they operate at their best, what strengths are used, and how they combine in career developing activities
Building community, self and others: community building activities
Campus systems, resources, and pathways: college academic terminology, college resources, degree and pathways
Funding and financial planning: identify sources of support at Highline,obligations associated with various funding types, create financial plan
College success skills: Effective learning and time management strategies to manage academic load
Information Literacy: Learning to use library and internet resources with confidence
Career planning: career and personality assessments (WOIS, Career Coach, etc.), job fairs, relation to personal and cultural capital
Goal setting: identify pathway, educational plan for career interest
Social and emotional wellness: imposter syndrome, impact of trauma, mental wellness, personal self-care strategies they can employ to maintain a healthy self-concept.
Identity development, power and privilege: different identity development theories, intersections of identity, environmental barriers influenced by the student’s personal identities
Strength-based approach: study past achievements and accomplishments, write reports describing how they operate at their best, what strengths are used, and how they combine in career developing activities

Student Learning Outcomes
Formulate and practice communication strategies to build connections with other students, faculty, and staff.

Construct an actionable plan for involvement in campus resources and communities.

Articulate funding options for college that align with student’s needs.

Describe strategies to manage resources in personal finance plan.

Devise a plan to effectively manage academic workload based on an evaluation of a variety of learning and time management strategies.

Generate a process to confidently and competently navigate library resources to prepare for future information literacy assignments.

Construct a degree plan based on program options and evaluation of pathway/career goal assessments.

Examine facets of identity development and articulate personal strengths for positive self concept in college.