ACHIEVE Comprehensive Transition Certificate

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Learning Outcomes

Through campus, classroom, and career experiences, students will have increased self-advocacy, independence, and competence in:

Setting and communicating needs, wants, and long and short-term goals;
Identifying and developing transferable and marketable occupational and job attainment skills;
Community responsibility and membership through activities which foster and support engagement, sustainability, and social reciprocity;
Critical thinking skills including self-reflection of learning and information gathering and analysis; and
Collaborating effectively with others, demonstrating respect for diversity and global perspectives, and recognizing and responding to varying levels of interpersonal relationships.

All ACHIEVE students build an individual Program of Study with an ACHIEVE Advisor that outlines which courses and activities helped the student achieve the certificate learning outcomes.
Students may opt to take courses for credit or audit a course depending on their ability meet the course prerequisites and their specific desired learning outcomes. Students who choose to audit do not earn a final grade nor credit for the course in the traditional manner; rather, they earn credits toward an individualized, college-approved certificate. Students auditing courses work in partnership with course faculty to develop measurable learning outcomes and a plan to evaluate progress with the support of their ACHIEVE Advisor.

Seventy-two (72) total credits in class, campus and career activities; with a 2.0 minimum GPA in graded courses and CR (pass) in approved audited coursework.

Credits are distributed across three core competency areas: classroom, campus and career. Students build an individual Program of Study with an ACHIEVE Advisor that outlines how the student met the classroom, campus and career requirements.
1. Classroom - eighteen (36) credits
2. Campus - nine (18) credits
3. Career - six (12) credits

ACHV 011 - ACHIEVE Orientation and Success Seminar
ACHV 099 - ACHIEVE Advising Seminar is required quarterly
Complete and present a Capstone portfolio outlining progress toward goals identified Program of Study and the achievement of programmatic learning outcomes. Three (3) credits.