SV101

Study Skills and Career Development

• Lecture Slides and Text Book (Download)
• Course Description
  This 48-hour course is designed to facilitate learners to have academic success and to strengthen individual weaknesses learning. This course is building a culture of engagement of students in learning activities at schools and outside schools. Students will also work independently on course assignments, while receiving support from the study skills teacher as needed.
• Course Objectives

  University students are mostly working to support their study and lives. By having attended this course, students will have become active learners and are expected to:
  1. develop knowledge and understanding of learning theories, principles and processes,
  2. identify personal management skills, including but not limited to personal strengths and weaknesses, organizing personal and group responsibilities, managing time for study and work
  3. understand and analyze their individual strengths and weaknesses,
  4. identify individual learning styles and how to improve individual learning experience,
  5. identify barriers and advantages to successful learning,
  6. develop better understanding of the culture of teaching and learning activities at university, including effective student learning in groups and common problem solving in group learning,
  7. develop basic understanding and knowledge of plagiarism and other forms of cheating in study at university,
  8. develop better knowledge of the importance of internet search and email and the power of internet social media and data storage,
  9. develop an individual performance plan (IPP), including weekly IPP, monthly IPP, annul IPP and career IPP, for their study and work and effectively implement the plans in their study and work,
  10. identify viable strategies to support their learning and work,
  11. be confident in coping with pressure and stress, especially workload of assignments and exams and work,
  12. write convincing letters of job applications and professional curriculum vitae,

   Methods of Instruction
  
  • Lecture
  • Discussion (Tutorial)
  • Presentation
  • Workshop
  • Quizzes
  • Exams
  Grading Policy
  Grades will be given on the total basis of 100 possible points.
  - Class participation (attendance 3%, ethics 3%, and activities 4%) 10%
  - Quizzes                                                                                             10%
  - Assignments (ASM)                                                                          20%
  - Examination 1 (EX1) (test of 30 key words of 100 words)               30%
  - Examination 2 (Ex2)                                                                          30%
  Total                                                                                                    100%
  Why CMU has established course-level learning outcomes?
  
  • From academic principles, students will perform better and learn more effectively when they have developed their understanding of the expected learning outcomes of the course they are to attend. The outcome-based course syllabus will not only inform students of learning topics, but also of new knowledge and ability to perform
  • their tasks as a result of their course. With outcome-based course syllabus, students will be able to achieve a deeper level of learning and cognition,As expected in the outcome-based course syllabus, students will develop better understanding of what they expect to learn from the course and they will gain a
  • better understanding of the entire curriculum of the program,Course-level learning outcomes can aid instructors in designing a course by helping them to plan course contents in a result-oriented manner, appropriate assessments, and more participatory strategies of teaching and learning activities,
  • Course-level learning outcomes help students understand their own learning and build metacognitive skills. Students can also better articulate what they’ve learned to parents, employers and others.
  What is the difference between student learning outcomes and the goal of a program or a course?
  

  The difference between student learning outcomes and goals at course or program level is characterized by their broadness and specification or by measurability and non-measurability or by deliverability or non-deliverability. Program or course goals reflect broader and non-specific categories of learning and are not measurable and deliverable. Students’ achievement at the program goals is nearly impossible to assess. In order to assess the achievement of student learning, the program goal must be broken down into smaller parts or more measurable parts or more deliverable parts. The broken parts are student learning outcomes. So learning outcomes will be used by faculty and CMU academic team as an essential tool to gather evidence of learning achievement of students and performance of faculty.