House Bill 2504 Fall 2017 PSYC-1300-06 - Learning Framework Syllabus

Lamar State College - Port Arthur

House Bill 2504

Fall 2017 Course Syllabus

PSYC-1300-06 - Learning Framework

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Faculty Information

Semester

Fall 2017

Instructor

Clark, Jamie L

Phone

(409) 984-6317

E-mail

clarkjl@lamarpa.edu

Department

General Education and Developmental Studies
Chair:	Michelle Davis
Phone:	(409) 984-6341
E-mail:	davisml1@lamarpa.edu

Office

Hours:	M 3:30-5:30, T 12-1:30, W 9-10:30, R 11-12:30, F 9-11/12-1:30
Building:	Student Center (SC)
Room:	410

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Course Information

Course Number

91627

Course Description

Study of the 1) research and theory in the psychology of learning, cognition and motivation; 2) factors that impact learning; and 3) application of learning strategies. Students use assessment instruments (learning inventories) to identify their strengths and weaknesses as learners. Develops skills and techniques necessary for success in college including memory development, note-taking, test preparation, study skills and time management. Assists the student in making adequate social and personal adjustments to college life, developing educational and career goals, and becoming familiar with institutional curricula and policies. Includes techniques for time management, note taking, and preparing for exams. Stresses the importance of creativity, health, relationships and the effective use of resources in achieving college success. All students who have passed fewer than 60 semester hours and finished the immediate two long semesters on scholastic probation are required to enroll in and pass the course. Recommended for all students desiring to improve their opportunities for success in college. A passing grade must be earned to meet the institutional requirement. May count for elective credit in selected degree and certificate programs. Students who fail a developmental course must take either EDUC 1300 or PSYC 1300.

Course Prerequisites

None

Required Textbooks

Keys to Effective Learning, 7th edition. Carol Carter and Sarah Kravits, Pearson. Other materials needed for class include a three ring notebook, notebook paper, and pens.

Attendance Policy

Research has shown a cause and effect relationship between attendance and college success. More than 4 unexcused absences will result in a grade of "F", regardless of the student's performance in class to that time. Excused absences include hospitalization of you or an immediate family member, participation in a college event, or a religious holy day. Prior notification to me for pending absences due to college events or religious holy days is required. Documentation of hospitalization is required. LATE WORK IS UNACCEPTABLE.

Course Grading Scale

90 - 100=A 80 - 89=B 70 - 79=C 60 - 69=D Below 59 = F

Determination of Final Grade

The final grade is the average of two grades.
One grade is the total of points based on attendance, participation, assignments, and essay worksheets. Attendance is one point per day with late arrival and early departure equal to one absence. Participation is one point per day. Textbook assignments are one point each. Essay worksheets are one point each. LATE WORK IS UNACCEPTABLE.
The other grade is the exam average which consists of three exams, one final exam, and one essay.
With the prior approval of your instructor, you may also earn extra credit for campus events.
Disturbance in class is a one point deduction from the final grade, per incidence, and includes but is not limited to: cell phones ringing, text messages, talking without permission and other disrespectful behavior.

Final Exam Date

December 11, 2017 - 2:00 PM Through December 13, 2017 - 2:00 PM

Major Assignments

Week 1: Course introduction, syllabus review, pre-course essay, pre- course assessment, syllabus quiz
Week 2: Library Tour & Chapter 1 Getting Started
Week 3: Chapter 2 Learning Preferences
Week 4: Chapter 3 Time and Money
Week 5: Chapter 4 Setting and Reaching Goals
Week 6: Chapter 5 Critical and Creative Thinking
Week 7: Chapter 6 Active Reading
Week 8: Chapter 7 Reading and Information Literacy
Week 9: Chapter 8 Listening and Note Taking
Week 10: Chapter 9 Memory and Studying
Week 11: Chapter 10 Test Taking I
Week 12: Chapter 11 Test Taking II
Week 13: Critical Thinking Essay
Week 14: Critical Thinking Essay
Week 15: Chapter 12 Moving Toward Success and Final Exam

Calendar of Lecture Topics and Major Assignment Due Dates

General Education/Core Curriculum Student Learning Outcomes

Communication skills:	Students will demonstrate effective written, oral and visual communication.
Critical Thinking Skills:	Students will engage in creative and/or innovative thinking, and/or inquiry, analysis, evaluation, synthesis of information, organizing concepts and constructing solutions.
Empirical and Quantitative Skills:	Students will demonstrate applications of scientific and mathematical concepts.
Teamwork:	Students will demonstrate the ability to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal and consider different points of view.
Social Responsibility:	Students will demonstrate intercultural competency and civic knowledge by engaging effectively in local, regional, national and/or global communities.
Personal Responsibility:	Students will demonstrate the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

PSLO ALPHA: Reading Skills - Demonstrates comprehension of content-area reading material.
PSLO 1: Critical Thinking Skills - Uses creative thinking, innovation, inquiry and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
PSLO 2: Communication Skills - Demonstrates effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and/or visual communication.
PSLO 3: Empirical and Quantitative Skills - Applies the manipulation and/or analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions.
PSLO 5: Social Responsibility Skills - Expresses intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities

Course Student Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate the ability to analyze and interpret assigned reading materials and written instructions from both the textbook and instructor measured by pretest, posttest, written class exercises, and essay rubric (PSLO ALPHA, PSLSO 1, PSLO 2)
2. Demonstrate the ability to produce clear, correct, and coherent prose adapted to purpose, occasion, and audience measured by pretest, posttest, written class exercises, and essay rubric. (PSLO ALPHA, PSLO 1, PSLO 2, PSLO 5)
3. Demonstrate the ability to communicate orally in clear, coherent, and persuasive language appropriate to purpose, occasion, and audience measured by class exercises and rubric (PSLO 2)
4. Demonstrate the ability to analyze and interpret forms of spoken language measured by pretest, posttest, class exercises, and essay rubric. (PSLO 1, PSLO 2)
5. Identify and demonstrate the ability to apply standards and elements of critical thinking measured by pretest, posttest, and class exercises.(PSLO ALPHA, PSLO 1, PSLO 2, PSLO 5))
6. Demonstrate the ability to use computer-based technology in communicating, solving problems, and acquiring information measured by class exercises and essay rubric. (PSLO 2)
7. Demonstrate awareness of cultural differences and similarities measured by class exercises. (PSLO 2, PSLO 5)
8. Demonstrate the ability to identify, use, and apply mathematical and scientific principles measured by pretest, posttest, and class exercises. (PSLO 3)

Academic Honesty

Academic honesty is expected from all students, and dishonesty in any form will not be tolerated. Please consult the LSC-PA policies (Section IX, subsection A, in the Faculty Handbook) for consequences of academic dishonesty.

Facility Policies

No food or tobacco products are allowed in the classroom.
Only students enrolled in the course are allowed in the classroom, except by special instructor permission.
Electronic devices (including but not restricted to cell phones, MP3 players, and laptop computers) shall not be used during examinations unless specifically allowed by the instructor.
Use of electronic devices during normal class hours distracts other students, disrupts the class, and wastes valuable time. Instructors have an obligation to reduce such disruptions.
Turn your cellphones to vibrate when you enter the classroom.

Additional Information

Psychology 1300 Assignment and Essay Guidelines

Assignments

You will be required to complete chapter assignments that will include Take Action, Building Skills, and Critical Thinking exercises located in your textbook. These textbook assignments must be turned in at the beginning of each class. In addition to these exercises, I will provide several assignments from outside resources that you will be required to complete. You must complete your assignments from outside resources and submit these to me at the end of each class.

Essay Worksheet

The essay worksheet must be completed at the end of each chapter. You will use this worksheet to detail your thoughts on how you will apply or will apply the techniques and the course concepts. Select the study skill presented in the chapter and answer the questions, Why, What, How, and What If. These worksheets must be submitted to me after a chapter is covered.

Critical Thinking Essay

As a final course project, you will be required to write a Critical Thinking Essay. The essay should include a summary of course strategies and techniques that you found to be most beneficial to you by using the Essay Worksheet question format, Why, What, How, and What If. The worksheets are tools you should use to build the foundation for writing your Critical Thinking Essay. Your essay should describe how you apply or plan to apply the strategies to your academic, work place, or personal environment.

Your essay should contain:

1. Introductory paragraph - this paragraph should be short listing at least three skills you found most helpful. Example: I learned many helpful things in Learning Framework, but the three skills that were most helpful to me were Time Management, Reading, and Note Taking.Ã‚Â

The next four paragraphs should be supporting paragraphs that will focus on the following questions:

2. Question Why paragraph will answer why you feel these three skills are important to you. Discuss past problems (issues) you've encountered with each of these three skills and any questions you asked yourself as you addressed the three skills.

3. Question What paragraph will describe what important facts you learned about the three skills. You should use the three concepts you listed on previous Essay Worksheet to answer the What question. This question may require several sentences to detail in length the three concepts with examples and personal references.

4. Question How paragraph will list specific examples of how you plan to use what you have learned about each of your three skills. This paragraph should be very personal and specifically detail how you will use or plan to use the techniques.

5. Question What If paragraph will show how you will apply the three skills outside of the classroom. Discuss specific ways you plan to do things differently now because of what you learned about each of the three skills.

The last paragraph will be the conclusion that will tie all your thoughts together showing how a combination of these skills impact or will impact your life. Be sure to tie the contents of this paragraph to the three skills in the introductory paragraph.

6. Conclusion paragraph will summarize all five paragraphs and neatly tie together all the ways you use or plan to use what you have learned in Learning Framework.

The essay must be typed in 12 point font, double spaced, and a minimum of three pages in length.

Important Information

ADA Considerations

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the Special Populations Coordinator, Room 231, in the Madison Monroe Building. The phone number is (409) 984-6241.

Some material in this course may be copyrighted. They may be used only for instructional purposes this semester, by students enrolled in this course. These materials are being used fairly and legally. No one may distribute or share these copyrighted materials in any medium or format with anyone outside this class, including publishing essays with copyrighted material, uploading copyrighted material to Facebook or YouTube, or painting or performing copyrighted material for public display.

Copyright violation is not the same thing as plagiarism. Plagiarism is intellectual dishonesty. Offenses of plagiarism result in lower grades or failing scores, and professors and the college strictly enforce plagiarism rules. There is never any acceptable use of plagiarism. Copyright violation is a legal offense, punishable by large fines and penalties.

Copyrighted material can be used if permission from the material’s creator is obtained, or if its use meets the standards of fair use in an educational setting. For example, a student can quote a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a report without violating copyright but still be guilty of plagiarism if the quotation is not properly documented.

If you are in doubt about what material can be freely used, ask your professor or contact the Dean of Library Services, at (409) 984-6216.

Assessment Statement

Assessment is a process by which LSCPA can help you learn better and gauge the level of progress you have made to attain knowledge, skills, beliefs, and values. It also helps your professors understand how to improve teaching and testing methods in your classes, and it helps each department understand and improve degree and certificate programs.

Periodically LSC-PA will collect assessment data for research and reporting purposes, including statistical data and sometimes copies of your work. Be assured that all material the college uses for assessment purposes will be kept confidential. To ensure anonymity, your name will be removed from any material we use for assessment purposes, including video-recorded performances, speeches, and projects.

If you object to allowing LSC-PA to use your material for assessment purposes, submit a letter stating so to your professor by the 12th class day. You will still be required to participate in whatever assessments are being done; we just won’t use your data.

What’s the difference between assessment and grades? The grades you get on papers, projects, speeches, and assignments are specific types of focused assessment. LSC-PA’s assessment efforts include class grades, surveys, standardized tests, and other tools.

Privacy Notice

Federal privacy laws apply to college students. This means that college employees, including instructors, cannot divulge information to third parties, including parents and legal guardians of students. Even if the students are minors, information about their college work cannot be shared with anyone except in very limited circumstances.

Anyone requesting information about a student should be referred to the Registrar. Instructors will be notified in writing by that Office about what information may be released and to whom.

Please remember that releasing private information about a student, however innocuous it may seem, can be a violation of federal law, with very serious consequences.

Circumstances under which information may be released:

An adult student may submit, to the Registrar, a handwritten, signed note granting permission for release of information. The note must specify what information may be divulged, and it must specify the name of the person to whom the information may be given.

A parent or guardian may be given access to information about a student by providing a copy of a filed tax return that shows that the student was listed as a dependent of that parent or guardian. The tax return must be for last complete tax year. Again, this documentation must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office.

A parent or guardian may be given access to information about a student if the student logs on to My.LamarPA.edu and sends an email to the Registrar granting permission. The email must specify what information may be given and the name of the person to whom it may be given.

Co-enrollment students are protected by the same privacy laws as adult students.

The Registrar’s office is located in the Student Center room 303B, and can be reached at (409) 984-6165.

College-Level Perspectives

This course helps add to the students’ overall collegiate experience in the following ways:

Establishing broad and multiple perspectives on the individual in relationship to the larger society and world in which s/he lives, and to understand the responsibilities of living in a culturally and ethnically diversified world.
Stimulating a capacity to discuss and reflect upon individual, political, economic, and social aspects of life in order to understand ways in which to be a responsible member of society.
Developing a capacity to use knowledge of how technology and science affect their lives.
Developing personal values for ethical behavior.
Developing the ability to make aesthetic judgments.
Using logical reasoning in problem solving.
Integrating knowledge and understand the interrelationships of the scholarly disciplines.

Degree Plan Evaluation

A Degree Plan Evaluation will help you determine which classes you need to complete your program.

Sign in to your my.lamarpa.edu account.
Click on the “My Services” tab.
Click on the “Student” tab.
Click on Student Records.
Click on Degree Evaluation.
Select the term you are planning on registering for (i.e. Summer I, Summer II, Fall, or Spring)
Verify that the Curriculum Information (your MAJOR) is correct
Click on “Generate New Evaluation” at the bottom of the screen.
Click the radio button next to Program
Click on the Generate Request button.

All of the classes that you have taken that apply to your declared major will be listed on the right. If you have a class that still needs to be completed, a “NO” will be listed on the right next to the required class.

HB 2504

This syllabus is part of LSC-PA’s efforts to comply with Texas House Bill 2504.

Lamar State College - Port Arthur Mission
Lamar State College - Port Arthur, a member of The Texas State University System, is an open-access, comprehensive public two-year college offering quality and affordable instruction leading to associate degrees and a variety of certificates. The College embraces the premise that education is an ongoing process that enhances career potential, broadens intellectual horizons, and enriches life.
Core Values
Shared commitment by faculty, staff and administration to a mission characterized by student learning, diversity, and community involvement General education/core curriculum that develops the values and concepts that allow the student to make a meaningful contribution in the workplace or community Academic and technical programs designed to fulfill our commitment to accommodate students with diverse goals and backgrounds, using a variety of delivery methods, on and off campus Technical education programs that provide for the acquisition of the knowledge, skills and behavior necessary for initial and continued employment Student achievement characterized by attainment of individual goals and measured by successful accomplishments and completion of curriculum Co-curricular opportunities that develop social, financial and civic acuity
Principles
Lamar State College - Port Arthur operates in the belief that all individuals should be: treated with dignity and respect; afforded equal opportunity to acquire a complete educational experience; given an opportunity to discover and develop their special aptitudes and insights; and, provided an opportunity to equip themselves for a fulfilling life and responsible citizenship in a world characterized by change.

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