COUN-110: Human Potential Seminar

School
Student Affairs
Division
Counseling
Department
Counseling
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Course Subject
Counseling
Course Number
110
Course Title
Human Potential Seminar
Credit Hours
2.00
Instructor Contact Hours Per Semester
32.00 (for 15-week classes)
Student Contact Hours Per Semester
32.00 (for 15-week classes)
Grading Method
A-E
Catalog Course Description

Examines how to identify and apply positive life skills in order for each individual to discover and any use their strengths, talents and abilities. Covers empathy, peak experiences, internal and external motivational factors, goal setting and values clarification.

Goals, Topics, and Objectives

Goal Statement

The overall goal is the actualizing of autonomous, healthy persons who can love self and others and use their potential.

Core Course Topics
  1. Self Development.
    • Create a pre-self knowledge inventory.
    • Define self-affirming, self-motivating, self-determining and empathetic positive regard for other people.
    • Discuss the statement by Herbert Otto indicating that "the average normal person uses no more that 10% of his or her potential."
  2. How Experiences Shape Personality.
    • Evaluate the people and experiences that have helped shape the way you think and feel about yourself today.
    • Write a summary of a happy moment, a decision you made that changed your life, an achievement you are proud of and a goal you achieved or are working on.
    • Analyze how one's personal experience unfolds.
  3. Positive Empathetic Regard.
    • Examine your empathetic recall experience.
    • Analyze your verbal and nonverbal communication with a classmate.
  4. Personal Goal Setting.
    • List your helper and killer words.
    • Apply the criteria for successful goal setting to your long and short term goals.
    • Develop a long range goal you will achieve by the end of class.
  5. Positive Past History.
    • Define peak experience.
    • Record your peak experiences throughout your life span.
  6. Life Experiences.
    • Construct twenty (20) peak experiences that have had an affect on your life.*
    • Discuss the list of little peak things that have a positive impact on your life.
  7. Personal Satisfaction, Success, and Achievements.
    • Explain how personal satisfactions, successes and achievements have influenced your life.
    • Write a list of all of your lifetime satisfactions, successes and achievements.
  8. Personal Motivation.
    • Label your internal and external motivators.
    • Identify your primary and secondary motivators.
    • Select your most motivational experiences.
  9. Values Clarification.
    • Identify your top five values.
    • Analyze your participation in the values auction and your goal setting plan.
  10. Strengths and Abilities.
    • List your 25 strengths, abilities or talents.
    • Identify how you are going to use these to achieve your educational, career, academic and personal goals.
  11. Goal Setting.
    • Judge your level of success with your short and long term goals.
    • Demonstrate a plan to include goal setting in your daily life.

Assessment and Requirements

Assessment of Academic Achievement

Assessment of student learning may include, but not be limited to, writing assignments, special research reports, interviews and oral reports.

Texts

Human Potential Seminar: A Positive Approach to Self-Development Basic Guide-Handbook, James D. McHolland

Outcomes

Satisfies Wellness Requirement
Yes
Effective Term
Fall 2019