UNIV1203: Starting Strong – Introductory Seminar for Scholars

Course Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Articulate their educational goals and future academic goals.
• Develop and sustain a strategic academic plan using requisite coaching and advising resources (e.g., Academic Coaching, Academic Advising, DegreeWorks, Exploratory Center, Mentors, and Career Center).
• Utilize learning strategies to maintain high levels of active cognitive engagement within varied academic environments, and with complex scholarly content to sustain necessary academic momentum and progress.
• Regulate their productive, growth mindset when confronted with ideas, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that are different from their own.
• Practice behaviors conducive to achieving high levels of academic performance (i.e., productive mindsets regarding impulse control, and anxiety and stress management)
• Practice appropriate and effective formal and informal interpersonal communicative professional skills and etiquette as they apply to academic settings.
• Apply understandings of motivational and attitudinal concepts as they relate to academic work and endeavors including, but not limited to: self-determination, motivation, mindsets, tenacity, grit, resilience, and perseverance.