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2023-24 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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:

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

Requirements


Important Notes


  • All Achieve students build an individual Program of Study and Career Transition Plan with an Achieve Advisor that outlines the courses, campus and career activities they completed to attain the certificate learning outcomes.
  • Students may opt to take courses for credit or as an Achieve elective depending on their ability to meet the course prerequisites and their specific desired learning outcomes. Achieve electives are clustered with traditional courses and allow for modification of coursework. Achieve students work with their Achieve advisor and course faculty to develop individualized course goals and a plan to evaluate progress. Achieve electives are graded on a pass/fail basis and count toward Achieve certificates only.

General Requirements


  • Seventy-two (72) total credits; with a 2.0 minimum cumulative GPA in graded courses. Achieve electives are evaluated based on the learning plan developed between the student and faculty and are graded on a pass/fail basis. Achieve electives count toward Achieve certificates only.

Specific Requirements


Required credits are distributed across three core competency areas: classroom, campus and career. Students build an individualized Program of Study and Career Transition Plan with an Achieve Advisor that outlines the student’s goals and plans for meeting classroom, campus and career requirements.

Campus and career competencies are measured through participation in a quarterly advising seminar. All students complete and present a Capstone portfolio outlining progress toward goals identified in the Program of Study and the achievement of programmatic learning outcomes.

Supporting Courses


  • Career pathway courses - Achieve students work with their advisors to develop an individualized Program of Study. Specific courses are determined based on skills and competencies needed for students to achieve their identified goal(s). (30CR)

Total Program Credits: 72


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