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Learning Outcomes:

• Describe and implement effective listening, note-taking, memory-retention, and academic research and writing skills, and identify methods for improving these skills
• Define and evaluate examples of academic integrity versus academic dishonesty
• Formulate a personal plan for managing stress, monitoring personal health, and increasing personal safety
• Assess how to successfully balance college coursework with participation in extracurricular activities and social life, and
• Clarify and state individual educational goals, and formulate specific plans to work toward these goals
• Design and implement a personal time-management plan
• Identify preferred learning style
• Describe and employ strategies for effective reading
• Describe and employ critical thinking and creative thinking skills
• Identify and accurately judge the credibility of online material when conducting academic research
• Describe and use different methods of exam preparation
• Describe and employ strategies for effectively interacting with instructors and classmates both inside and outside the classroom
• Explain test anxiety and list strategies for reducing it
• Identify resources and strategy for managing finances while in college

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