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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1-3 credits This course is designed to help students navigate their current life transitions and explore positive new life directions. Topics will include: Life transitions (understanding change, endings, losses, and new beginnings); Relationships (patterns, identifying productive and damaging interactions, learning new skills); Personal growth (self-esteem, coping with powerful emotions, healthy power, assertiveness).
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1-3 credits This course presents the interpersonal 'people skills' that are important in the modern workplace. Topics include communicating effectively, assertive behavior, teamwork, conflict resolution, and work ethics. Students will gain awareness of their individual work styles and how to work effectively with people with different styles in a diverse workplace. Specific techniques for coping with job stress, and managing anger in the workplace also will be emphasized. Class activities and assignments will stress practical application of skills. Course content is applicable in other settings such as family, social, and school.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1-3 credits This class is intended for persons who have a recurring behavior, feeling, or thought which is negatively affecting their quality of life and which they wish to eliminate. For the purpose of this class, a self-defeating behavior can be an active behavior, such as smoking or negative self-talk, or a passive behavior like not making decisions or not doing other desired activities.
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2.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: CG 220. This course is the next sequence in the Women in Transition program. It is designed to assist students in enhancing their ability to navigate life changes in powerful and positive ways, building on the skills and knowledge gained in the first Life Transitions course. Topics include: Responding successfully to changing personal and professional demands; strengthening resiliency and self-esteem; establishing and maintaining healthy relationships; and setting, enacting and attaining personal, academic and career goals. Class activities will stress practical and personal application of course information. Successful completion of the first Life Transition course is required.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit This course covers researching potential employers and utilizing effective job search strategies. Students will evaluate a variety of job search approaches, focusing on networking and targeting their job searches, as well as Internet sites for researching organizations and job listings.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit This course covers effective resume writing, as well as cover letters and job applications. Students will learn to communicate their skills and experiences to employers, targeting their resumes and letters to specific positions. Different resume formats and layouts, including electronic resumes, will be discussed.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit This course covers effective strategies and techniques for successful job interviews. Students will learn how to demonstrate their skills and experiences to employers, how to strategically prepare for interviews, and what employers are looking for in job applicants.
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1.00 Credits
1-3 credits Students examine the Adlerian/Dreikursian point of view for improving relationships with elementary-school-age and younger children who are experiencing social and emotional difficulties. Students view family counseling sessions in a counseling center setting, examine dynamics of relationships, and understand the application of principles and skills for improving relationships between parents and children. Students use ideas offered in the course in the context of their own life situations. May be offered through Distance Learning.
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2.00 Credits
1-3 credits Students engage in specialized study from the Adlerian/Dreikursian point of view. Focus is on understanding in-depth ways of facilitating positive relationships of adults and children. Students view family counseling sessions in a counseling center setting and engage in weekly reading, discussions, and experiences.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Real life in-home interactions between parents and children and segments of interviews in which a counselor discusses with parents the application of principles and skills for improving relationships. Videotaped situations focus on establishing creditability as a parent, improving communication, setting reasonable and consistent limits, stimulating independence and responsibility, and improving order, structure, and routine. Approaches to typical problems are illustrated (e.g. fighting, crying, whining, conflict among siblings, bedtime). Reading and writing assignments supplement videotapes. May be available through Distance Learning.
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