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Course Descriptions for General Studies
| GS-1 | College Success | | CSU | (3 units lecture) | | | Academic Success preparation for the university-bound student. Students will learn how to navigate the challenges of higher education by practicing advanced reading, note and test-taking skills, higher-order thinking, and academic research, while establishing college and career paths and accessing the resources to support their goals. | | Prerequisite: ENGL-150 | | | |
| | GS-150 | Learning Success | | (3 units lecture) | | | An introduction to the academic and personal skills needed to succeed in college. Students will learn how to manage time and classroom dynamics, improve reading, note-taking, and test-taking skills, establish an educational plan, generate critical responses to what they read, see, and hear, and be introduced to the basic technology required to find, evaluate, and use information of all kinds. | | Corequisite: CIS-100 series | | | |
| | GS-2 | Strategies for Classroom Success - Learning Skills | | CSU | (1 unit lecture) | | | Part of a series of three mini-courses designed to build both the academic and personal strengths necessary for classroom success. Specifically practical strategies for 1) assessing preparation, interests, and commitments; 2) confirming and extending the basic study skills of reading, note-taking, and test-taking to more active, critical learning; 3) forming study, support groups; 4) managing the increasing technology necessary for information retrieval, writing, and computing required in college classes. | | | | |
| | GS-3 | Strategies for Classroom Success – Academic Planning | | CSU | (1 unit lecture) | | | Part of a series of three mini-courses designed to build both the academic and personal strengths necessary for classroom success. This course specifically focuses on helping students explore career interests, values and abilities; understand career and education options; make satisfying career/education decisions; and develop an education plan designed to maximize their career success. | | | | |
| | GS-360 | Basic Academic Literacy | | (6 units lecture/lab) | | | Focus on basic reading, writing, and academic skills for those students whose placement scores indicate a need for additional preparation before moving into developmental reading and writing coursework. | | Note: Students are placed into this course based on Accuplacer reading and sentence skills scores below entry placement for English 350. | | | |
| | GS-361 | Basic Skills for Life, Work and College | | (6 units lecture/lab) | | | A course designed to help students gain the confidence that comes from knowledge of self and achievement to meet the challenges of life, work, and college. | | Note: Students enrolling in this course are encouraged to enroll in GS 360. | | | |
| | GS-4 | Strategies for Classroom Success - Life Skills | | CSU | (1 unit lecture) | | | Part of a series of three mini-courses designed to build both the academic and personal strengths necessary for classroom success. This course focuses on life skills introducing practical strategies for 1) assessing personal values; 2) examining decision-making skills; 3) managing stress; 4) managing family and other relationships in the context of being a student; and 5) understanding and appreciating the dynamics of an ethnic and gender diverse student culture. | | | | |
| | GS-5 | Academic Research | | CSU | (1 unit lecture) | | | Introduction to academic research skills and practice. Students will learn how to find, evaluate, use, analyze, and correctly cite information sources in print, electronic, and Internet formats. Students will learn how to do the research required for term papers, speeches, or presentations required by transfer level courses such as English 1A or Speech 1. | | Recommended: ENGL-150 | | | |
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