Navigating the Road Ahead

Catalog description

This course focuses on positioning students for academic, career and personal excellence within the context of fostering an understanding of the adult student's role in the learning/teaching process at Saint Joseph's University. Its purpose is to enhance learning skills such as understanding material as it applies to oneself and others, applying concepts and ideas to real issues, thinking critically, analyzing text and ideas, and assessing progress. A key strength of this course is that it gives students the freedom to select and apply their own interests and academic pursuits to all of the assignments, thus making the course meaningful-as well as interesting and valuable-from both skill-building and content perspectives.