NEW EDITION AVAILABLE SPRING 2010
Elevate personal performance and academic excellence for first-year or transition students!
Thriving in College & Beyond assists students in making a smooth transition into college, through college, and from college. The text follows the idea that college should be approached strategically with a strong liberal arts and general education foundation in order to develop the student as a whole person. Students will learn strategies that they can apply across different academic and personal situations. Not only will they learn what the strategies are, but also why these strategies work.
Topics covered in this book include:
- Personal success strategies and using campus resources to support them
The value of a liberal arts and general education, and development of students as a whole person
- Knowing yourself and making wise choices for college courses and college major
- The learning process and strategies for learning
- Memory improvement and test-taking strategies
- Higher-level thinking
- Diversity and it's importance for personal development
- Career success
- Time and money management
- Interpersonal relationships
- Health and wellness (physically and spiritually)
NEW TOPICS
- Math Anxiety
- Science Phobia
- Anger Management
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
NEW CHAPTERS
- Motivation
- Goal Setting
- Social & Emotional Intelligence
Each book includes an access code for My Power Learning online learning style assessment and learning style report. Students can become a "Power Learner" by understanding their learning style and using it to their advantage.
Optional - with the adoption of this text, you will have the option of including Folio180. This online student portfolio provides a single location for students to collect their activities, accomplishments and supporting documentation in a single location during their college careers.
Click on the Book Preview link above to view the Table of Contents, Preface, About the Authors, and Foreword by Mary Stuart Hunter.
This book is also available in a full course version. To view information about it, click here.
When ordering for course adoption, use student text ISBN 978-0-7575-7279-1
