English 108- Study Skills

This course is designed primarily to provide first-year college students with specific skills and strategies that will enable them to accomplish their academic goals and achieve success in their college courses. Students will be introduced to a wide variety of topics essential to student success, such as “learning styles,” “setting priorities,” “time-management,” “critical thinking,” motivation,” “memorization techniques,” “note-taking,” and “revising for tests.” While focusing on different learning strategies that are important for success in college, this course will also concentrate on how individual students can become independent life-long learners and critical thinkers.