Subject Study Skills

📘 Course Title: Study Skills

📌 Course Code: ENG-404
📌 Credit Hours: 3 (3-0)

📖 Course Contents

1️⃣ Seeking Success in University

• Knowing your campus and its resources
• Forming an academic support group
• Knowing where to find help
• Staying informed
• Getting involved

2️⃣ Motivating Yourself to Learn

• Assessing academic strengths and weaknesses
• Discovering and using your learning style
• Developing critical thinking & study skills
• Adapting learning style to teaching methods

3️⃣ Using Critical Thinking Strategies

• Examining your assumptions
• Making predictions
• Reading with a purpose
• Sharpening your interpretations
• Finding implications in what you learn
• Reading and understanding graphics
• Evaluating what you learn

4️⃣ Setting Goals and Solving Problems

• Setting goals for success in college
• Developing a positive attitude

5️⃣ Sharpening Your Classroom Skills

• Preparing for class
• Becoming an active listener
• Developing a personal note-taking system
• Guidelines for note-taking
• The informal outline/keywords system
• The Cornell method
• Matching note-taking style and learning style
• Learning to make effective presentations

6️⃣ Making the Most of Your Time

• How to grab some time
• Scheduling your time
• Time management and learning style
• Overcoming procrastination

7️⃣ Creating Your Study System

• SQ3R: The Basic System
• Devising your study system

8️⃣ Organizing Information for Study

• Memorization techniques
• Concept or information maps
• Comparison charts
• Timelines
• Process diagrams
• Informal outlines
• Branching diagrams

9️⃣ Controlling Your Concentration

• Improving concentration
• Eliminating distractions
• Using a study system
• Strategies to improve concentration

🔟 Preparing for Tests

• How to prepare for tests: Three steps
• Developing a test-taking routine
• Mastering objective tests
• Answering essay questions effectively

1️⃣1️⃣ Becoming an Active Reader

• Reading actively
• Finding the main idea, details, and implications
• Using a textbook marking system

1️⃣2️⃣ How to Use a Dictionary?

1️⃣3️⃣ Building Career Skills

• Working in the new economy
• Where the jobs will be
• Choosing your future
• Your course of study
• Creating your career plan
• Understanding employer expectations
• Developing essential career skills
• Workplace ethics
• Transitioning from university to work
• Writing a resume and cover letter
• Preparing for job interviews

📚 Recommended Books

1. Bain, Ken. (2012). What the Best College Students Do.
2. Kanar, Carol C. (2001). The Confident Student. Houghton Mifflin Co.
3. McMillan, Kathleen. (2011). The Study Skills Book. Pearson.
4. Pauk, Walter. How to Study in College.
5. Wallace, M.J. (1980). Study Skills in English.