Course Goals
Core Course Topics
Self Development
How Experiences Shape Personality
Positive Empathetic Regard
Personal Goal Setting
Positive Past History
Life Experiences
Personal Satisfaction, Success, and Achievements
Personal Motivation
Values Clarification
Strengths and Abilities
Goal Setting
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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."
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.
Examine your empathetic recall experience.
Analyze your verbal and nonverbal communication with a classmate.
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.
Define peak experience.
Record your peak experiences throughout your life span.
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.
Explain how personal satisfactions, successes and achievements have influenced your life.
Write a list of all of your lifetime satisfactions, successes and achievements.
Label your internal and external motivators.
Identify your primary and secondary motivators.
Select your most motivational experiences.
Identify your top five values.
Analyze your participation in the values auction and your goal setting plan.
List your 25 strengths, abilities or talents.
Identify how you are going to use these to achieve your educational, career, academic and personal goals.
Judge your level of success with your short and long term goals
Demonstrate a plan to include goal setting in your daily life.