Professor Anthony Solano
DS106 - Student Success
Department of Student Development
Germantown, SA175A Phone: 240-567-1997, Fax: 240-567-1985, Department Phone: 240-567-1993 Office Hours: By Appointment via email or phone Anthony.Solano@montgomerycollege.edu
WELCOME MESSAGE
Welcome to DS106 - Success Group,
My name is Anthony Solano. I have been a counselor and faculty member at Montgomery College for the last 5 years. In addition to the College Success course, I teach a section of the online Career Development (DS 103) and Self Defense for Women (PE 173).
This course uses Skip Downing's On Course textbook. In On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life, renowned author and lecturer Skip Downing empowers you through his positive, motivational writing with the practical study strategies and life skills you need to take charge of your college career and create your own success in life. Through self assessments and journal activities you are asked to think critically about yourself in areas like planning, relationships, self-confidence, and personal responsibility. Online practice of textbook concepts and strategies is available on the On Course website at http://studentsuccess.college.hmco.com/students.
The student success process will help you learn about yourself, successful life skills, and learn where the two come together. You will work on preliminary educational and life decision making skills. You will then be asked to develop an action plan to achieve selected goals related to their educational and life growth.
My primary reason for creating an online version of DS106: Student Success was to make sure that success strategies presented in the course would be available to all students and not just students who are able to attend classes on campus.
FACULTY INFORMATION
Anthony Solano, MA, LCPC
Distance Academic Faculty Counselor/Professor
Germantown Campus.
CATALOG DESCRIPTION
Designed specifically for students who are dissatisfied with their academic performance and who wish to improve their achievement in college courses. This course stresses elimination of self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, setting and achieving short-term academic goals, identification of motives that lead to failure, learning to accept responsibility for one's behavior, and building a more positive attitude about one's potential for college success. This course does not deal primarily with study habits or techniques, but with motives and attitudes related to academic success. 2 credit hours.
COURSE PREREQUISITES
There are no course prerequisites.
TEXTBOOK
On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life. Skip Downing, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-618-74156-9
Students MUST purchase the Fifth Edition in order to complete this class.
ONLINE REQUIREMENTS
This course will run for five to eight weeks based on the start date. Each week students will be required to complete assigned readings, review the Course Content for the week (lecture), complete all the discussion board items, complete any quizzes, and submit any assignments for the week. Each week runs from Wednesdays at 12:01am to Tuesdays at 11:59pm. All work must be completed within that week as outlined in the weekly assignments table.
TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS
Students must be able to access WebCT through MyMC. Students need to have the ability to create and access documents in Microsoft Word, send and receive emails, attach files to emails, and use the internet to access sites to complete assessments and view student success related topics.
ON-CAMPUS REQUIREMENTS
There are no on campus requirements however, you are welcome to visit me at my office or schedule an appointment.
