| source City University of New York (X) |
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department Student Development (X) |
Course enables student to develop basic college survival skills in areas of academic life, setting career goals, time management, analysis of classroom behavior, assessment of instructor demands and utilization of library and other college resources. Emphasis on students' understanding of academic environment and its demands on their developing successful coping and achievement behavior.
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A comprehensive examination of the career decision-making process involving relevant information about self and the world of work. Exploration of values, skills, abilities, and interests, and their relationship to the job market. Development of career knowledge and awareness including training requirements, life style, and employment opportunities. Self-marketing and job hunting skills.
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This seminar introduces the theory and process of career development. Students will examine personal and societal forces that influence career choice. In addition, an assessment of the students' career interests, values, and skills will help students understand the theory of career decision-making and apply this knowledge to their own career exploration. Through the use of career information resources, students will learn the relationship between self-assessment and career choice.
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New Student Seminar is designed to provide an orientation for students to LaGuardia and to provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in college. Students will learn college policies and academic requirements, effective study skills, and test-taking strategies. In addition, students will engage in self and career exploration as well as academic planning and advisement.
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An orientation course offered to all full-time freshmen enrolled in the Freshman Year Initiative Program at Lehman College.
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The seminar is aimed to help freshmen make a successful transition to college by introducing them to the expectations and skills required for college-level study, and to Hunter?s policies, requirements, and support services. The First Year Seminar is meant to promote students? academic success and introduce them to Hunter?s academic culture, the wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs of study, and opportunities for intellectual and imaginative enrichment. The seminar will complement the advising that students will be receiving from the Office of Student Services by acquainting them with processes such as registration and choosing a major, policies such as grading, the General Education Requirements, extracurricular activities at the college, and the various academic and personal support services available to them. It will also complement the research and writing skill sets addressed in the English language and composition sequence and new information literacy initiatives through the Hunter College libraries.
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This course will explore the nature of the university community and the concepts of academic integrity and responsibility for students new to Hunter College. Students will read texts and take part in activities that will encourage them to become participants in the larger academic community and support their personal academic growth.
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Overview of physical and biological sciences. Topics include body as a whole, locomotion and support, body maintenance, distribution of energy sources and nutrients. Medical terminology and comprehension are stressed.
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Math tools applied to problem solving in measurements, heat calculations, gases, and stoichiometry; chemistry of elements; nomenclature; bonding; properties of solutions.
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Emphasis on adjustment to college, personal growth, and development of academic skills.
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A critical examination of different occupational areas combined with a realistic self-examination by students of their own needs, interests, and skills in order to formulate valid career choices. Emphasis on occupations in urban areas and careers in the criminal justice systems. Attention is also given to the career problems of women and members of minority groups. The course includes guest lecturers from governmental agencies and private industry. Students have minimum of one individual career planning session with the instructor.
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An introductory course designed to assist students in coping effectively with specific difficulties encountered in the early stages of their college career. Major emphasis is on self-awareness, value clarification, decision making and effective planning for career selection.
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A practical survey of counseling approaches and techniques designed to provide skills in the academic counseling of fellow students. Major emphasis is on examining assumptions about helping, building basic observational and communication skills, facilitating and examining various helping techniques.
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A practicum experience in academic counseling for John Jay undergraduate students. Students are required to work as peer counselors for a minimum of four hours per week of academic counseling under the supervision of a faculty member of the Counseling Department. Attendance at weekly seminars involving lectures, discussions, films, role playing, and tapes is also required. In addition, students must submit a major research paper for the course.
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This course will focus on developing leadership skills. Students will learn effective interpersonal techniques for conducting group meetings including conflict management skills and parliamentary procedure. The course will focus on the impact of ethnic, racial, and gender issues in groups and organizations and their effect on leadership. Several class sessions will involve experiences which will explore facilitative leadership styles, impediments to effective communication, self-awareness, and listening for hidden agendas. Video tape equipment will be used to give students the opportunity to learn how their behavior affects others.
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This course will focus on assessment of addictive disorders, and clinical evaluation of substance and alcohol abusers. Application of assessment and clinical evaluation findings will be made to treatment planning, case management, discharge planning and clinical record keeping. These assessment and evaluation methods and findings will be applied to chemical dependency counseling techniques.
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Provides a theoretical survey of the field of counseling. Major emphasis is on such topics as ethical considerations, the intake interview, counselor roles and client roles, goals of counseling, referrals and liaisons in community, vocational counseling, tests and instruments used in the counseling process, academic counseling, and research on the counseling process. Differences between counseling and psychotherapy are discussed.
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This course provides instruction in specific counseling concepts and skills focused upon alcoholism and substance abuse counseling. Students learn about client assessment, treatment planning, case management, clinical record keeping, discharge planning, counseling roles and settings, family and community education, and vocational counseling.
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This course is designed for incoming freshmen whose test scores indicate they need a great deal of instruction with literal comprehension strategies and with expanding vocabulary. Emphasis is placed on instruction and practice using paragraphs and short passages to help students.
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This course is designed for entering freshmen who scored between 33-35 on the Reading Assessment Test and for continuing students who have completed Communication Skills 101 and need more instruction in reading comprehension as well as instruction in how to read critically in order to comprehend textbooks, editorials, and essays. Use of the library for research will be an integral part of this course.
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This course is equivalent to COM 110 and is designed for students who scored at the maximum cut-off point on the assessment exams. Comprehension and learning strategies at the college level are stressed. Emphasis will be placed upon problem solving, organization, note taking, and critical reading. Library reading and core course content will be required using the thematic approach to learning.
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Intensive teaching of basic writing, grammar and sentence structure.
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This course introduces students to the elements of writing. This course will require intensive review of sentence structure and standard English usage. Techniques of paragraph development are emphasized.
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This course offers the fundamentals of composition including sentence and paragraph development, dictation and style. Students will examine essay structure and development. There will be assigned themes including such rhetorical forms as description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, argumentation. This course will require incorporation of quoted material in essays, selective readings of multicultural nature and the use of the critical inquiry approach.
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FRC 101 is a course designed to provide a meaningful framework for helping students view the interrelationships between the variety of disciplines students will meet in a general liberal arts core. Further, the course is designed to allow students to critically analyze the social, cultural and personal factors that influence their academic progress. The course content emphasizes the use of written and oral expression in the critical investigation of the higher education degree requirements, related to both specific and general career goals. This course includes the study of self awareness, problem solving and decision making techniques in clarifying goals for good academic performance and selection of a career.
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