Your College Experience: Strategies for Success
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This book/CD-ROM guide is filled with useful strategies that beginning college freshmen can use to ensure success in their studies and personal lives while at college. The guide offers advice on study skills, relationships, coping with diversity, sexual decisions, money management, and alcohol and drugs. Many writing activities are included, as well as critical thinking questions and activities exploring values, careers, and goals. The CD-ROM contains self- assessment exercises that will direct students to readings and Internet resources. Gardner is senior fellow at the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina. Jewler is professor emeritus at the same university. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceCh. 1Keys to Success1Ch. 2Exploring the Student-Teacher Connection18Ch. 3Your College and American Higher Education28Ch. 4The Liberal Arts: Foundation for Lifelong Learning41Ch. 5Surviving College52Ch. 6College Success for Students of Color59Ch. 7Time Management: The Foundation of Academic Success70Ch. 8Learning Styles84Ch. 9Listening and Learning in the Classroom96Ch. 10A Sound Approach to Textbooks107Ch. 11Making the Grade116Ch. 12Thriving in the Information Environment: Your Campus Library136Ch. 13Writing and Speaking for Success153Ch. 14Problem-Solving in Math and the Sciences173Ch. 15Computing for College Success: Technology on Campus188Ch. 16Finding Answers: Your College Catalog and Academic Advisor204Ch. 17Choosing a Major and Planning a Career214Ch. 18A Personal System of Values223Ch. 19Relationships and Campus Involvement231Ch. 20Being Assertive - Not Passive or Aggressive251Ch. 21Diversity on Campus260Ch. 22Leadership Across the Campus273Ch. 23Women: The Majority of First-Year Students283Ch. 24Wellness: More Than Just Okay292Ch. 25Managing Stress307Ch. 26Sexual Decisions317Ch. 27Alcohol, Other Drugs, and You334Ch. 28Managing Money346
