This course supports the continued development of fundamental practices for academic and personal success in a post-secondary environment. Emphasis is placed on math and science learning skills. Students will be encouraged to apply their learning to concurrent math and science course content as well as to their overall success as students on a path to future training.
Prerequisites
SCIE 0710 or departmental permission.
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What you will learn
- Study skills and test-taking strategies for math and science, e.g. active reading, note-taking and memory techniques, learning strategies, time and workload management, scientific communication
- Information literacy
- Scientific problem-solving, e.g. identifying hypotheses, variables, tests, data, sources of error; prediction and estimation; scientific communication; critical thinking
- Holistic considerations of being a student (physical, socio-emotional, mental, spiritual), including needs, care priorities, and resources
- Multiple ways of knowing, being, and doing
- Self-advocacy in a post-secondary environment; planning for program or college transfer
- Individual and collective resilience
- First Peoples Principles of Learning
How to register
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
Course schedules
Select your program to see the available course schedules.
Contact us
If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.
† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.