AOT 1005 - Success Strategies
Clock Hours: 60
Delivery Mode
on-ground
Course Description:
To ensure the student has foundational skills in: reading for information, applied mathematics, locating information and business writing. Additionally, students will learn strategies in test taking and note taking, how to set goals and how to manage time effectively.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
1. Reading for information:
- Strengthen skills in vocabulary, spelling and visual comprehension.
- Identify sentence parts; such as: nouns and verbs
- Follow directions
- Strengthen skills in finding information/details
- Develop skills with information in paragraphs
- Develop skills in reading for information, interpreting information, gaining meaning from context and complex information
2. Applied Mathematics:
- Strengthen skills in basic math
- Strengthen skills in word problems and problem solving
- Working with money, time and quantity
- Measurements
- Rounding/ estimating/ averaging
- Positive and negative numbers
- Percentages
- Proportions/ ratios
- Perimeter/area
3. Reading Graphics
- Introduction to graphs
- Pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs, tables and forms, maps and plans, diagrams and gauges
- Interpreting complex graphics
- Finding details and extracting data
4. Business Writing
- Developing skills in sentence parts/parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, developing ideas and organizing ideas.
- Vocabulary, writing style
- Describing words
- Proofreading
- Persuasive writing
5. Writing
- Punctuation and capitalization
- Developing skills in sentence parts/parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, developing ideas and organizing ideas.
- Vocabulary, writing style
- Describing words
- Proofreading
6. Students will understand how attending college benefits them personally and professionally.
7. Students will learn how to set long and short-term goals.
8. Students will assess their learning and personality styles and how to maximize their learning.
9. Students will learn time management strategies, and how to use planning methods, such as calendars, planners, and to-do lists.
10. Students will learn successful test taking skills.
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