Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE: First Steps to Choosing Success
Module 1.1: The First Week of Class
Module 1.2: How College Is Different
Module 1.3: 5C Approach for Decision Making
Module 1.4:Learning as an Active Decision
Module 1.5: Maximizing Your Use of Choosing Success
CHAPTER TWO: Interacting with Your College Community
Module 2.1: Understanding the Language of Your School: Catalog and Website Content
Module 2.2: Campus Offices, Resources, and Services
Module 2.3: Experiencing Campus Diversity
Module 2.4: Getting Involved: Joining Campus Groups
Module 2.5: Working with Faculty
Module 2.6: Communication and Conflict Resolution
CHAPTER THREE: Deciding to Know Yourself
Module 3.1: Aptitudes and Abilities
Module 3.2: Values
Module 3.3: Environmental Preferences
Module 3.4: Sensory Preferences
Module 3.5: Processing Preferences
Module 3.6: Your Multiple Intelligences
Module 3.7: Your Personality Type
Module 3.8: Your Instructor’s Style
CHAPTER FOUR: Choosing Goals for College and Life
Module 4.1: Identifying Goals
Module 4.2: Setting S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Goals
Module 4.3: Locus of Control
Module 4.4: Myths and Realities of Achieving Goals
Module 4.5: Mind Growth and Staying On Track
Module 4.6:Grade Point Average
CHAPTER FIVE: Decisions for Managing Time
Module 5.1: Overcoming Procrastination
Module 5.2: Managing Your Term and Week
Module 5.3: Daily To-Do Lists
Module 5.4: Choices about Self-Talk
Module 5.5: Achieving Balance
Module 5.6: Using Digital Time Management Tools
Module 5.7: Living Arrangements and Time Management
CHAPTER SIX: Choices for Succeeding in Class and Online Courses
Module 6.1: Choosing to Become an Active Listener in Class
Module 6.2: Listening in Different Learning Situations
Module 6.3: Taking Good Lecture Notes
Module 6.4: After-Class Follow-Through
Module 6.5: Digital Notetaking Tools
CHAPTER SEVEN: Choosing to Read Actively
Module 7.1: Preparing to Learn
Module 7.2: Reading Textbooks
Module 7.3: Course Readings in Nontraditional Text Formats
Module 7.4: Reading Math and Science Textbooks
Module 7.5: Online Reading Techniques
Module 7.6: Critical Reading and Thinking
CHAPTER EIGHT: Decisions about Study and Test Taking
Module 8.1: Decisions about Study Preparation
Module 8.2: Organizing Study Materials
Module 8.3: Choices for Practicing and Remembering Content
Module 8.4: Using Online Tools for Test Preparation
Module 8.5: Overcoming Test Anxiety
Module 8.6: Choices for Exam Success
Module 8.7: After-Exam Analysis
CHAPTER NINE: Making Choices about Today’s Technology
Module 9.1: Learning in the Digital Age
Module 9.2: Choices for Successful Use of the Internet and the Web
Module 9.3: Evaluating Worth
Module 9.4: Choices in Electronic Access
Module 9.5: Rights and Responsibilities of Digital Citizenship
Module 9.6: Deciding to Become a Distance Learner
CHAPTER TEN: Making Financial Decisions
Module 10.1: Budgeting
Module 10.2: Financing Your Education
Module 10.3: Managing Your Credit, Debit, and other Financial Decisions
Module 10.4: Protecting Your Digital Identity and Financial Reputation
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Choosing Health and Wellness
Module 11.1: What Is Stress?
Module 11.2: Coping with Stress and Crisis Situations
Module 11.3: Physical Fitness
Module 11.4: Making Decisions about Health Problems
Module 11.5: Safer Sex
Module 11.6: Staying Safe
CHAPTER TWELVE: Exploring Career Options and Opportunities
Module 12.1: Choosing a Major
Module 12.2: Degree Options
Module 12.3: Scheduling Coursework
Module 12.4: Planning for a Career