PERG 140 - Life Skills and Personal Adjustment

Personal Growth 140: Life Skills & Personal Adjustment

Professor Jim Wales
Email: jwales@sdccd.net

Textbook and Course Material Requirements

Self-Help Stuff That Works by Adam Khan
Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Purchase Textbooks Online at the SDCCD Online Bookstore

Hardware and Software Requirements

Hardware and Software:
To successfully complete this online course, you will be required to meet the minimum hardware and software requirements. View Hardware and Software Requirements.

Internet Browser:
You must use a supported Internet browser in order to successfully work in WebCT, the online course management system for this course. To see a list of supported Internet browsers, click here.

Course Description

Students will explore and learn to apply personal achievement principals, coping strategies, and life skills that develop each area of emotional, social, educational, and professional life. Students will learn methods that can be used to direct one's actions more effectively. Emphasis is placed on learning and applying principals related improving life satisfaction. The course is designed to permit each student to take a very individualized approach to her or his personal growth in areas such as self-esteem, compassion, self-discipline, self-responsibility and self-assertion while, at the same time, allowing the opportunity to participate in the personal growth process with others.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

1. Evaluate your current level of life satisfaction
2. Identify your current needs or life situations that would improve your level of life satisfaction
3. Explore and analyze numerous principles that improve life skills and personal adjustment
4. Identify specific principles that address your current needs or life situations
5. Develop action plans that utilize these principles
6. Practice applying these principles through the action plans
7. Analyze skills and principles used by very successful people
8. Develop personal strategies that utilize some of these principles
9. Re-evaluate current level of life satisfaction

Application and Registration Information

REGISTRATION DIRECTIONS:

Complete Online Application (for new SDCCD students). Go to Student Web Portal
Receive registration appointment and instructions by email or mail.
Register online at the Student Web Portal or
by phone with ClassTalk, the District's phone registration system.
ClassTalk (619) 624-2100
ClassTalk HelpLine: City: (619) 388-3200 Mesa: (619) 388-2500 Miramar: (619) 388-7300
Make sure you send in your tuition payment so that you don't lose your registration!
Fees are $26.00 per unit for in California residents and $149 per unit for out of state tuition.
Order textbooks online. Visit our online bookstore.
Upon completion of registration with ClassTalk, and 10 days prior to the start of the semester, you will receive a postcard in the mail with login instructions.

You will not be able to login to your online course until the first day of the semester!!!
You must login to your online course the first week of the semester to avoid your enrollment being dropped

Course Schedule:
The SDCCD Online course schedule is also available on the Internet at: www.sdccdonline.net

Online Learning Readiness Assessment

To find out if you have the technical and student skills necessary to succeed with online learning, take the Online Learning Readiness Assessment.

Syllabus


	This course is designed for motivated, disciplined students who are computer literate. To succeed in this course, you must be committed and have sufficient time. There is a lot of reading and a lot of time required practicing and applying learned skills and principles. A willingness and desire to collaborate with classmates in give and take discussions is necessary.


	Fall 2005 Syllabus Life Skills & Personal Adjustment-Personal Growth 140