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Skills For Professional Development –
gen300
(3 credits)
This course examines the skills necessary for successful critical thinking, teamwork, research, and communication. The course is designed to aid adult learners in acquiring and improving the core competencies that are necessary at University of Phoenix. Students examine their reasons for returning to school and develop strategies for achieving educational goals in school, work, and personal settings. Students are also introduced to the university library and learn how to access its resources successfully.
This undergraduate-level course is 5
weeks.
To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.
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Personal Management
- List strategies for increasing academic success.
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Thinking Critically
- Examine ethics issues in an academic setting.
- Evaluate sources of information for relevancy, reliability, and bias.
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Conducting Research and Presenting Findings
- Construct a presentation.
- Prepare a research paper using American Psychological Association (APA) formatting standards.
- Demonstrate summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting information from various sources.
- Locate sources of relevant academic information in the University Library.
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Working in Teams and Writing Basics
- Use prewriting techniques in the development of a research paper.
- Examine strategies for enhancing team performance.
- Identify the benefits and challenges of working and learning in teams.
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Techniques for Academic Success
- Develop an effective and comprehensive team charter.
- Develop strategies for monitoring progress toward goal achievement.
- Create a learning plan based on personal learning style, time-management skills, as well as short and long-term goals.
- Identify university resources required for student success.
- The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
- While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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