HSC 093 - HSC Academic Orientation/Support

Credits: 1
LEC hours per week: 1
This course includes orientation, assessment, placement, and program options for students entering the Transitional Studies/Open Doors program. Students will learn about the resources and services available to them across campus. Students will explore their abilities, characteristics, and readiness to learn; identify personal, educational, and employment background and interest; student will identify skill gaps, learning differences and other barriers to learning and learn and identify strategies, recommendations, and interventions for success; students will identify short and long term goals and the skills needed to reach those goals as they create a personalized educational plan to achieve those goals. All new OD students to the program will be enrolled in this class their first quarter of attendance. OD students who are placed on academic warning, probation, or suspension will be placed into this class by advisor/navigator/administrator recommendation.
Course Outcomes:

Complete registration, admissions forms, and all required assessments for program entry.
Identify available resources at Walla Walla Community College.
Obtain student ID card and library card.
Prepare a personal learning plan to address personal/career goals.
Identify any barriers to success and strategies to overcome such barriers.
Self-identify needs such as academic skill gaps and learning difficulties.
Demonstrate readiness to learn and persist through consistent attendance.
Create a completion plan to include complete a minimum of weekly check-ins with instructors to evaluate progress when appropriate.

Course Topics:

Placement Testing and competencies and how they apply
Resources at WWCC and how to access
Topics from Career and College Readiness Standards
Personal Learning Plans/Education Plan
Completion Plan and learning strategies for success