Curricular Action Notice: Request for GES Approval, AHD 2201
- Date: 11-29/07
Department: Academic and Human Development
- Purpose and nature of change: See attached Course description
- Old Prefix: AHD Old
Number: 2201 Old CIP:
New Prefix: Same
New Number: New CIP:
- Old Course Title: Personal Development/Life Choices
New Course Title: Same
Abbreviated Title (for Master Schedule), Maximum 20 spaces
Complete only items below being changed
- Credits (Place number of credits beside appropriate types)
OLD Credit(s) 3
Undergraduate
NEW Credit(s) 3
Undergraduate
OLD Credit(s) Graduate
NEW Credit(s) Graduate
For variable credits, list Minimum Credit Maximum Credits
- OLD Clock Hours: Lecture 3
Recitation Lab
NEW Clock Hours: Lecture 3
Recitation Lab
OLD Contract Hours:
Lecture 3
Recitation Lab
NEW Contract Hours: Lecture
3
Recitation Lab
- To repeat for additional credit (not repeat of previously earned
grade), list maximum
hours of credit that may be earned over multiple semesters semester
hours.
- Course Description for Catalog (limit to four sentences):
This course will give each student an opportunity to examine their
personality, life management skills, values and the relationship
to making appropriate life choices. The course is designed
to increase each student’s awareness of the responsibilities
and control they can impact upon their own life experiences through
a holistic approach to living. A strong emphasis will be placed
on a rational-emotive, reality-oriented approach to everyday life
management skill building and healthy self-esteem development and
leadership.
- Prerequisites: (Courses which MUST be completed prior to taking
this course) None
- Co-requisites: (Courses which must be taken prior to or simultaneously
with) None
- If taught dual-level or cross-listed with another department,
list: N/A
Prefix Number Support Signature
If dual-level, attach a document that indicates content, assignments
and assessments for graduate and undergraduate courses.
- New faculty resources needed? Yes √
No
- Requested date of offering (Must meet new catalog deadline of
March 1) Fall or Spring ’08
- Estimated Frequency of Offering: 1 Semester per academic year
- List all programs that require this course. Provide support
from affected departments.
Leadership Minor
- New Library Resources Needed? Yes √ No, if yes:
Signature of appropriate librarian indicating needs can be met:
- New Technology Resources Needed? Yes √ No
If yes:
Signature of Director of Information Technology indicating that
needs can be met:
- New Equipment resources needed? Yes √
No If yes:
Describe Equipment:
Source of funding:
- List 1 – 3 sample textbooks for this course:
Personal Development/Life Choices
Materials Compiled by Vincent W. Jenkins
CAPCO Custom Publishing
ISBN: 0-604-09699-2
Adjustment and Growth the Challenge of Life
Spenser A. Tathus, Jeffrey S. Nevid
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, College Publishers
ISBN: 0-03-0744180-0
Choice and Change: The Psychology of Personal Growth and
Interpersonal Relationships (7th Edition)
April O’Connell, Vincent O’Connell
- Describe any student enrollment restrictions (limited to majors
in program XXX, restricted from majors in program XXX, etc.)
Maximum 25 per class (will probably add up to five(5) per instructor
permission)
- Request that Course be considered for General Education Credit.
Please check all applicable boxes.
a. √ Satisfy a Group Requirement
– specify Group Wellness
b. Satisfy Global Awareness Requirement
c. Satisfy Information Literacy Requirement
d. Satisfy a “Professional Course” for Block 6
Provide Support for this request. *See syllabus
- Does this course impact any Education Programs? Yes
√ No
If Yes: Signature of Chair of TEC must appear below.
- Attach a topical outline.
- Describe Evaluative Techniques – Described in Syllabus
in detail
- Special Needs, if any:
Recommendation Dates and Signatures:
Signature
Date
Department:
TEC (if any education program):
Gen’l Education Subcomm. (if necessary):
Graduate Council (if necessary):
Academic Affairs Committee:
University Senate:
President:
MU Form A41C – Effective 4/1/01
AHD 2201
Personal Development/Life Choices
Course Description (MU catalog):
This general education course will give each student an opportunity
to examine their personality, life management skills, values and the
relationship to making appropriate life choices. The course
is designed to increase each student's awareness of the responsibilities
and control they can impact upon their own life experiences through
a holistic approach to living. A strong emphasis will be placed
on a rational-emotive, reality-oriented approach to everyday life
management skill building and healthy self-esteem development and
leadership.
Course Overview: As an applied human
development, (life skills) offering. This course will afford each
student an opportunity to explore their personality, life management
skills, values and the relationship toward making appropriate life
choices. The course is designed to teach students to be aware
of the responsibilities and control they can exact on their own life
experiences, with special emphasis on developing healthy life skills.
Each student will learn how to increase their potential to self-empower,
utilizing various techniques i.e. lecture, assigned readings, discussions,
and group exercises. Students will gain a practical understanding
of psycho-social development, environmental and social conditioning
and their effects on individual behaviors and attitudes. A holistic
approach to living and life management is the focus of this course
offering. A strong emphasis will be placed on a rational-emotive,
reality-oriented approach to everyday life management, skill building
and leadership.
Specific Course Objectives:
(1) To increase each students
ability to develop a greater understanding of themselves, their interests
and values.
(2) To foster an increased awareness
and understanding of psycho-social issues which influence daily interactions
and our subsequent behavior.
(3) To assist each student in
developing skills and insights that can increase their ability to
self-empower.
(4) To discuss and understand
current trends within human services/human relations issues.
(5) To increase the each students'
ability to develop and maintain productive life management skills.
General Education skills developed through
this course:
*Thinking Skills - Critical thinking, problem solving
and analysis
*Communication
*Knowledge of behaviors that promote well-being
Topics will include but not be limited to:
1. Adjustment theories of personality
2. Growth/humanistic models
3. Personality integration
4. Holistic living
5. Personality traits
6. Time/stress management
7. Critical Thinking
8. Goal setting
9. Responsible decision making/problem solving/conflict resolution
10. Study skills/habits
11. Personal assessment
12. Action planning
13. Career interests
14. Self image/esteem
15. Assertiveness
16. Substance use/abuse
17. Anger management
18. Responsibility/self-discipline
19. Maslow's hierarchy "Qualities of a Self-Actualizing Person"
20. Health Issues/Nutrition
21. Death and Dying
22. Access/discrimination - e.g., racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism,
ableism
23. The family and related issues
24. Interactive group experiences
Requirements: Each student will be required to participate
in classroom discussions that will culminate into topic area and required
reading related group experiences. Each student will submit
two (2) topic related reaction essays, and a journal. Each student
is also responsible for a midterm examination and an assigned class
presentation. Grades will be based on attendance, class participation,
and completion of assignments, projects, and examinations.
Reaction Essay #1 10%
Reaction Essay #2 10%
Midterm Exam 30%
Class Presentation 20%
Journal 20%
Attendance and participation 10%
Required Textbooks:
Personal Development/Life Choices, materials compiled by
Vincent W. Jenkins, CAPCO Custom Publishing, ISBN: 0-604-O9600-2
Adjustment and Growth: The Challenge of Life, Spenser A Tathus,
Jeffrey S. Nevid, Hartcourt, Brace, Jovanivich, College Publishers,
ISBN: 0-03-0744180-0
Choice and Change: An Introduction to the Psychology of Growth,
Vincent O’Conner and April O’Conner, Prentice Hall Publishing,
ISBN: 013133140
Personal Development/Life Choices
Assignment Outline
September
Week One
Course Overview - Holistic Living
Personality-Theories of
Development - R.E.T.
Week Two
Personality Integration
Maslow’s Hierarchy
Week Three
Self-assessment /Values Clarification/
Week Four
Self-Image/Self- Esteem
Assertive
Communication
Week Five
Critical Thinking
Decision Making/Problem Solving/Conflict Resolution
October
Week Six
Time/Stress Management-Academic Survival
Week Seven
Bias/Intolerance/Sexism
Bias-Sexism/Homophobia/Ableism/Ageism
Week Eight
Spirituality/Religion: Exploring a World in Conflict
Global
Diversity: Embracing Universal Citizenship
Week Nine
Bias/Discrimination-Racism
Bias/Discrimination-Racism
Week Ten
Death and Dying - The Grieving Process
Mental
Health Issues
November
Week Eleven Sexual/Violence
- Rape/Date Rape
Relationship
Issues - Developing Healthy Relationships
Week Twelve
Politics of “The Family”
Substance
Abuse: Victims of a Self Medicating Society
Week Thirteen
Leadership and Healthy Life Management
Thanksgiving Holiday -
December
Week Fourteen
Presentations
Week Fifteen Presentations
General Education Skills Developed
Through This Course
(from Paul Breen)
* Critical thinking/Problem solving and
analysis:
a. identify quickly and accurately the critical issues
when making a decision or solving a problem
b. identify a general principle that explains related experiences
or factual data
c. define the parameters of a problem
d. analyze the interrelationships of events and ideas from several
perspectives
e. identify reasonable criteria for assessing the value or appropriateness
of an action or behavior to changing conventions and norms
f. adapt one’s concepts and behavior to changing conventions
and norms
g. apply appropriate criteria to strategies and action plans
h. take given premises and reason to their conclusion
i. analyze the interrelationships of events and ideas from several
perspectives
*Communication
a. listen with objectivity and paraphrase the content
of a message
b. use various forms and styles of written communication
c. speak effectively to individuals and groups
d. express one’s needs, wants, opinions, and preferences without
violating the rights of others
e. identify and communicate value judgments effectively
f. describe objects or events with a minimum of factual errors
*Knowledge of behaviors that promote well-being
a. analyze and learn from experience—both one’s
own and the experience of others
b. relate to skills developed in one environment (e.g., school) to
the requirements of another environment (e.g., work)
c. match knowledge about one’s own characteristics and abilities
to information about job or career opportunities identify, describe,
and assess the relative importance of one’s needs, values, interests,
strengths, and weaknesses
d. interact effectively with peers, superiors, and subordinates
e. express one’s feelings appropriately
f. understand the feelings of others
g. demonstrate effective social behavior in a variety of settings
and under different circumstances
h. identify, describe, and assess the relative importance of one’s
needs, values, interests, strengths, and weaknesses
i. develop personal growth goals that are motivating
j. identify and describe skills acquired through formal education
and general life experience
k. identify one’s strengths and weaknesses
l. accept an lean from negative criticism
This application is for course AHD 2201 to be considered for approval
to become part of the CORE General Education listing as a Wellness
course. The following outlines the content which meets one or more
of the Objectives of General Education.
- It is a holistic approach to healthy living
- The focus is a comprehensive wellness model, emphasizing social,
physical, psychological, and emotional growth, throughout a lifetime.
- Its foundation is based on the research, writings and teachings
of several humanistic theorist and practitioners. We examine, for
example:
- Psychologist Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
and what he calls Qualities of a Self-Actualizing Person
which means, in part, healthy and creative.
- Psychologist Carl Roger uses the term Fully Functioning and said
that those who dedicate our lives to a greater awareness are people
in progress.
O’Connell & O’Connell call it Personality Integration
I. Development of intellectual understanding of the world and ourselves
II. The purposeful furthering of emotional awareness.
III. The striving always to direct one’s own destiny.
IV. The guest to relate oneself to one’s world.
Personality Integration is the ongoing process
in which the person attempts to coordinate their (his) biological,
emotional, social and intellectual experiences toward purposeful action
and further growth throughout (his) their lifetime”.
Personal self assessment is emphasized, as well as, developing and
maintaining a healthy self-esteem, (self worth). Dr. Nathaniel Brandon
calls self-esteem the Immune System of Consciousness.
We will also focus on developing healthy life management skills, i.e.,
time/stress/anger management, managing and embracing diversity, assertive
communication and behavior, managing and embracing change, having
a clearer understand of politics of the family, living in a self-medicating
society, healthy decision making/problem solving/conflict resolution,
values clarification, leadership, global diversity: Embracing
Universal Citizenship, responsibility and self-discipline, death
and dying, setting goals while examining many other life challenges
and demands.
We will explore living and decision making from a rational emotive,
(R.E.T./Albert Ellis), reality oriented approach:
- accepting individual responsibility for change and growth
- skill building
- students will learn to look at situations the way they are, not
how they want them to be
- learning how our belief systems influence how we respond in many
situations, often, our emotions control our responses and our behaviors
do not reflect our intellect and ability to reason.
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