Instructor: ShaNelle Lawson Reed

Email: lawsons@lamarpa.edu

Phone: 409-984-6384

Office Hours: Mondays 4:30–5:00 PM

Additional Contact Information:

A study of the research and theory in the psychology of learning, cognition, and motivation; factors that impact learning, and application of learning strategies. Theoretical models of strategic learning, cognition, and motivation serve as the conceptual basis for the introduction of college-level student academic strategies. Students use assessment instruments (e.g., learning inventories) to help them identify their own strengths and weaknesses as strategic learners. Students are ultimately expected to integrate and apply the learning skills discussed across their own academic programs and become effective and efficient learners. Students developing these skills should be able to continually draw from the theoretical models they have learned.

• Textbook Title: On Course: Strategies for Success in College, Career, and Life. Ninth Edition, Cengage Publishing. Authors: Skip Downing and Jonathan Brennan.
• For students taking EDUC 1300, the book is available through e-book format on Blackboard. If you prefer not to have an electronic version, you must opt out of the first day book materials program.
• For students taking EDUC 1100, purchasing the textbook is optional.

Textbook Purchasing Statement: A student attending Lamar State College Port Arthur is not under any obligation to purchase a textbook from the college-affiliated bookstore. The same textbook may also be available from an independent retailer, including an online retailer.

• PSLO 1: Reading Skills - Demonstrates comprehension of content-area reading material.
• PSLO 2: Critical Thinking Skills - Uses creative thinking, innovation, inquiry and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
• PSLO 3: Communication Skills - Demonstrates effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and/or visual communication.
• PSLO 4: Empirical and Quantitative Skills - Applies the manipulation and/or analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions.

• Communication Skills: Students will demonstrate effective written, oral and visual communication.
• Critical Thinking Skills: Students will engage in creative and/or innovative thinking, and/or inquiry, analysis, evaluation, synthesis of information, organizing concepts and constructing solutions.
• Empirical and Quantitative Skills: Students will demonstrate applications of scientific and mathematical concepts.
• Teamwork: Students will demonstrate the ability to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal and consider different points of view.
• Social Responsibility: Students will demonstrate intercultural competency and civic knowledge by engaging effectively in local, regional, national and/or global communities.
• Personal Responsibility: Students will demonstrate the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making.

Getting on Course to Success; Accepting Personal Responsibility; Discovering Self-Motivation; Mastering Self Management; Employing Interdependence; Gaining Self-Awareness; Adopting Lifelong Learning; Developing Emotional Intelligence; Staying on Course to Success; Test-taking; Study Skills; Career Development; Career Research Project.

90–100 = A   80–89 = B   70–79 = C   60–69 = D   Below 59 = F

Exams 25%

Discussion 15%

Assignments 25%

Journals 10%

Career Research Project 25%

I will not discuss your grades over the phone or by personal email.

I will not discuss your grades over the phone or by personal email.

Be sure to check your campus email and Course Homepage using MyLSCPA campus web portal. You can also access your grades, transcripts, academic advisors, degree progress, and other services through MyLSCPA.

Academic honesty is expected from all students, and dishonesty in any form will not be tolerated. Please consult the LSCPA policies (Academic Dishonesty section in the Student Handbook) for consequences of academic dishonesty.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the Accessibility Services Coordinator, Room 119, in the Ruby Fuller Building. The phone number is (409) 984-6241.

No food or tobacco products are allowed in the classroom. Only students enrolled in the course are allowed in the classroom, except by special instructor permission. Use of electronic devices is prohibited.

This syllabus is part of LSCPA's efforts to comply with Texas House Bill 2504.

As per Texas law and LSCPA policy, all LSCPA employees, including faculty, are required to report allegations or disclosures of child abuse or neglect to the designated authorities, which may include a local or state law enforcement agency or the Texas Department of Family Protective Services. For more information about mandatory reporting requirements, see LSCPA's Policy and Procedure Manual.

LSCPA is committed to establishing and maintaining an environment that is free from all forms of sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, sexual violence, and other forms of sexual misconduct. All LSCPA employees, including faculty, have the responsibility to report disclosures of sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment, sexual assault (including rape and acquaintance rape), domestic violence, dating violence, relationship violence, or stalking, to LSCPA's Title IX Coordinator, whose role is to coordinate the college's response to sexual misconduct. For more information about Title IX protections, faculty reporting responsibilities, options for confidential reporting, and the resources available for support visit LSCPA's Title IX website.

For more information about the Clery Act and crime reporting, see the Annual Security & Fire Safety Report and the Campus Security website.

If you have a grievance, complaint, or concern about this course that has not been resolved through discussion with the Instructor, please consult the Department Chair.

Research has shown a cause-and-effect relationship between attendance and college success. Students with more than five absences from a main campus course will receive a zero for the attendance percentage of their final grade.