Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

1. Use concepts of goal setting to achieve academic and personal success.
2. Identify personal values and how they relate to goal setting and motivation.
3. Understand and employ motivational strategies to achieve academic and personal success
4. Incorporate awareness of diversity and cultural differences to participate fully in college and community.

1. Apply a goal setting model and motivational strategies to create short-term & long-term goals with action plans.
2. Use student resources to create a year-long academic plan.
3. Incorporate awareness of diversity and cultural differences through case studies, simulations, video & discussion, and guest speakers.

1. Have students identify their levels of confidence in their academic plans and identify resources they will need to remain confident in their plans.
2. Assess student goals for specificity, concreteness, and balance between level of challenge and level of achievability.
3. Assess students’ ability to reflect on issues of diversity and cultural differences through use of journals, activities, and discussion.
4. Assess students’ ability to access resources and use them effectively (via a worksheet, quiz, presentation, etc.).

• Academic planning and goal setting
• College calendar
• College catalog
• College course planning guide
• Important dates and deadlines
• Paying for collegeManaging and creating positive relationships in a diverse college environment
• College/campus resources: multicultural center, women’s resource center, TRIO, computer labs, math lab, College Success Center, writing lab
• Student services: financial aid, advising, counseling, career resource center, job placement, cooperative education
• College policies
• Motivational strategies
• Power of goal-setting