COL 105 - Navigating College

5 Credits

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. You’ll engage with formal and informal collaborative work to consider in more depth your own insights, what the research shows, and what Highline offers. With a recognition of your own strengths and support systems, you’ll create plans for college funding, completing your degree and moving toward career goals. You belong here at Highline.

Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Summer Day, Evening, Online
Fall Day, Evening, Online
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 20220330T15:33:25

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 20
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
Restricted Elective Yes
Course Outline

Building community, self and others: community building activities
Campus systems, resources, and pathways: college academic terminology; technology literacy for college systems; and other college resources, degree and pathways
Funding: identify sources of support at Highline
College success skills: effective learning and time management strategies to manage academic load and stress with personal self-care strategies
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
Identity development, power and privilege: different identity development theories, intersections of identity, environmental barriers, imposter syndrome, impact of trauma, healthy self-concept for college.
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 interpersonal and small group communication strategies to build connections with other students, faculty, and staff.

Demonstrate effective use of technology tools required for college success.

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

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

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.