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Refining Your Learning Skills for Engineers

          

This 30 hour course (plus daily assignments) is practical and experiential and is designed to enhance your learning skills for the purpose of achieving academic success in university. Students who attend this course will have experienced academic success in the past; however, the study skills applied may not have been sufficient for the intense demands placed on students in the Faculty of Engineering. To help you refine your skill set, we have selected a range of topics that aim to secure self awareness and personal competence.

Schedule & Topics
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Date & Time
CANCELLED January 2012

Watch for Summer 2012 offerings.
Attendance required at all classes.

Location of Classroom


Tuition
$750
Tuition must be paid in full before the course begins. Maximum class size is 24.

To Register

Dalhousie University College of Continuing Education
1459 LeMarchant Street, Suite 2201
Mona Campbell Building
902-494-6079
john.chisholm@dal.ca
Or Online

NB: This course is specifically designed in cooperation with the Faculty of Engineering for students in academic difficulty. You may be required to reduce your Engineering course load as a condition of entrance to Refining Your Learning Skills.

Course Details

This course includes 30 hours of classroom time, plus daily assignments, for a total of approximately 40 hours. A minimum of B- (80%) is required to pass.

Benefits

  • Acquire study skill techniques required for academic success.
  • Learn strategies to manage stress.
  • Identify your preferred style of learning.
  • Apply a time management system to handle a heavy work load.
  • Learn goal setting techniques.
  • Gain the most out of lectures.
  • Develop a note taking system that leads to achieving learning outcomes.
  • Identify techniques for test and exam preparation.
  • Become a better, more confident student.
  • Start with a renewed sense of purpose and direction.
  • Achieve your desired Grade Point Average.
  • Increase self awareness and confidence.
  • Identify positive patterns of thinking, feeling and doing.
  • Create strategies for work, study and personal life balance.
  • Identify key elements for sustaining academic integrity.
Course Material
Students will receive a Study Guide of resource materials that will be used throughout the course. These resources will assist the student in maintaining more effective learning skills in their future studies.

Optional text: Learning for Success: Effective Strategies for Students, Fleet J., Goodchild F., Zajchowski R., Fourth Edition, Nelson Thomson Canada Limited, 2006. ISBN 0-17-641529-7.

Course Contacts

To Register: John.Chisholm@dal.ca 902-494-6079 or Online.
Faculty of Engineering:
Dr. Pemberton Cyrus, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies, Pemberton.Cyrus@dal.ca, 902-494-6084
Dr. George Jarjoura, Director of the Core Program, George.Jarjoura@dal.ca, 902-494-8339
College of Continuing Education: Professor Susan Holmes, Program Director, Susan.Holmes@dal.ca, 902-494-6430