Nutrition & Wellness – Biology 50

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Suggestions for Success in this Course

At the beginning of the course, before the end of the first week, sit down and determine a study plan. Figure out how you are going to budget your time to learn the material and complete the assignments.

Developing a study plan often helps students feel more in control. When you feel in control of your life, you tend to be less stressed, happier, and are more successful in whatever you are doing.

Study Skills Resources

Success in College often requires juggling several factors including home, work and school. Juggling is easier when you get yourself organized.

These resources offer useful information for helping you study and helping you get organized.

How to Study – http://www.howtostudy.org
Offers information on Getting Ready, Taking in and Processing information

Study Strategies – the University of Minnesota – http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/acad/strat
Offers a Study Skills Assessment as well as Time Management and Time Audit.

Academic Achievement Center – http://www.gocolumbia.org/AAC/Default.htm
The Academic Achievement Center (AAC) at Columbia College provides free tutoring and academic assistance to all students.

Some of the services offered by the Academic Achievement Center include:

• One-on-one tutoring in multiple subjects, by appointment
• Assistance with papers and writing skills
• Supplemental Instruction (SI) for various courses
• Help developing study skills and preparing for classes

We are checking to see if they will be able to offer online tutoring.

1. Do not wait until the last minute to study for this course.
The first part of this course can be overwhelming for those who have not taken anatomy, physiology or chemistry.

Many students after taking the first exam, realized they should have started studying after the very first lecture.

2. Review the diagrams, illustrations and tables in the textbook.
The textbook is excellent in its readability, understandability and use of graphics, and illustrations.

3. Review the diagrams, illustrations and tables in the lecture.
A great deal of time has been spent in organizing the lecture material to make it easier for you to understand.

4. Learn your learning objectives.
Learning objectives are included at the beginning of each lecture. This is the material within the lecture that you will be held accountable for on the exam.

5. Attend lecture.
Those who attended lectures as a whole have done better in past semesters. For the Online Course, this means being sure to watch and listen to the recorded lecture.

These tips are offered to help in minimizing the frustrations that may occur as you begin to study unfamiliar material.

1. Your first exposure to the material should come from completing the assigned reading prior to each lecture and/or activity.

• If you can’t read, at least skim the text, and preview the material.
• Look over the material so you are familiar with the topic that will be discussed and the images or diagrams from the text.
• Get an overview of the material by reading the introductory and summary passages, section headings and subheadings, and diagrams.
• The purpose of previewing is not to understand the material but to get a general idea of what the lecture will cover.

2. The second exposure comes from attending the lecture. While the material may still seem unfamiliar, having read (or skimmed) the text prior will make a difference and it will be less frustrating.

3. The third exposure ideally comes after lecture, but more realistically before the exam. By this time you should start noticing that you are remembering some things. Many people find rewriting their notes, especially writing out the learning objectives or making flash cards to be helpful.

4. For the exam, review the material (? x’s of times, to be determined by you) so you know the learning objectives provided to you at the beginning of each lecture.

1. For every hour you spend in class, you will probably need to study two to three hours outside class preparing. This does not include time spent reviewing the material for the exams.

2. Studying should be at the same time and the same place, if possible. It should not be a place where you routinely do other things. It should your study place.

3. Many people find they are better and fresher studying during the daytime. What takes you an hour to do during the day may take you an hour and a half at night. Of course what takes you an hour with your children asleep will take three hours if they are awake.

4. Study the hardest subject first. Working on your hardest subjects or topics at a time when you are fresh makes learning them easier. Putting the more difficult topics off until you’re tired makes learning the material even more difficult.
Even if you are tired there may be topics that are easy to grasp that you can still review.

5. Take a ten-minute break after every hour of study. If possible, avoid studying for long blocks of time. Get up and stretch, walk around a bit.

6. Reward yourself for completing tasks (see the Healthy & Heart Healthy Snack link in the Blackboard shell for healthy snack ideas.) Rewarding for completing tasks means acknowledging what you have accomplished even if it now an entire chapter, lecture or project.

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