Soldiers to Scholars

Catalog description

The course is for all who have served in a uniformed service, their family members, friends and supporters. Students will learn ways for veterans to adjust to civilian life and to college. The course will present and discuss various campus services and effective strategies useful for college success. These will include, but not be limited to, academic support services, goal setting, note-taking, memory techniques, time and money management, and accessing various service-related benefits. Students will also explore various physical, emotional and psychological reactions to wartime service, whether exposed to combat or not, and how these effect veterans’ civilian readjustment. There will be discussions of various coping mechanisms that will enable veterans to reconnect with loved ones and manage stress and anxiety related to the wartime experience. The course will explore the signs and symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and identify strategies to manage these symptoms. The course will enable students to identify community resources that may enable readjustment to civilian life. (UC, CSU, AVC)