Course Outline:

Student Development is dedicated to ensuring students' college success and motivating their journey toward lifelong learning. It will enable students to develop their own plan for personal, academic and career success through self-evaluation, application of specific techniques, and classroom activities. These activities will help students acquire effective study strategies, increase critical and creative thinking skills, establish short-term and long-term goals, and learn to manage time more efficiently. This is a course about making choices, especially those about setting and meeting personal, academic and career goals. The Mind Map is a dynamic and exciting tool to help all thinking and planning becomes a smarter and faster activity. The creation of a Mind Map is a revolutionary way to tap into the infinite resources in student's brain, to make appropriate decisions, and to understand their feelings.