Career Guidance & Student Success Program

Provides information and techniques for studying, campus connection, time management, financial management, and goal setting, including motivation, career exploration, and accepting personal responsibility for college success. Includes developing skills for navigating a culturally diverse learning environment and utilizing college resources and services. TBCC strongly recommends this course be taken in a student's first term at TBCC.

Teaches students to write effective scholarship essays and develop their own personal essays from initial draft to final essay format. This class explores resources for funding college education, and strategies for effective research via the Internet. Pre-requisite: RDWR 115 (may be taken concurrently.)

Provides strategies to overcome barriers to effective test-taking to improve overall test performance. Test preparation and test anxiety are examined.

Provides tools and resources for making informed career decisions. Covers assessing career confidence and readiness, skills, values, interests, personality, barriers, lifestyle, education and approaches to decision making. Covers how to research career information. Includes educational decision-making which covers determining a field or program of study, and college or training program. Audit available.