HMDV 150 Rouse Scholars Seminar I

This course is a special one-credit course for students enrolled in the Rouse Scholars Program. The purpose of this course is to cover selected leadership, personal, and interpersonal development topics designed to help students explore personal and leadership attributes. A significant portion of this course involves personal and career exploration and academic success strategies.

Credits

1

Hours Weekly

1.5 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. Critically summarize main issues or problems that pose a barrier to college student success, explain why they are problems, and develop a plan for success using strategies covered in class.
2. Identify interests, work values, and personality preferences, and analyze information and use it to set academic and career goals.
3. Identify key elements of effective goal setting, demonstrate ability to create achievable goals, and critically assess personal strengths and weaknesses in goal setting and achievement and develop strategies for improvement in goal attainment.
4. Use and evaluate career information to assess appropriateness and potential satisfaction of two possible career choices.
5. Identify and apply new time management and personal management strategies to increase effectiveness in stress management and academic success.
6. Create a properly-formatted resume.

Course Objectives

1. Critically summarize main issues or problems that pose a barrier to college student success, explain why they are problems, and develop a plan for success using strategies covered in class.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Final exam essay question

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Critical and Creative Thinking Rubric

   Critical Thinking

   • CT1
2. Identify interests, work values, and personality preferences, and analyze information and use it to set academic and career goals.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

3. Identify key elements of effective goal setting, demonstrate ability to create achievable goals, and critically assess personal strengths and weaknesses in goal setting and achievement and develop strategies for improvement in goal attainment.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

4. Use and evaluate career information to assess appropriateness and potential satisfaction of two possible career choices.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

5. Identify and apply new time management and personal management strategies to increase effectiveness in stress management and academic success.

   This objective is a course Goal Only

6. Create a properly-formatted resume.

   This objective is a course Goal Only