Student Development Courses
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DMACC offers several credit courses designed to help students make successful transitions to college life and careers. Credits earned in these courses count as electives toward DMACC degrees and may also transfer to four-year institutions. SDV108, The College Experience, is intended as a first-semester class. Other Student Development courses may be taken any term.
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SDV108 |
The College Experience |
1 credit |
| This course is designed to introduce students to college resources, services, and expectations and to assist them in gaining maximum benefit from their college experience. |
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SDV115 |
Study Strategies |
2 credits |
Provides students with study/reading strategies for independent learning and academic success.
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RDG163 |
Speed Reading |
3 credits |
| An advanced reading course designed to improve reading speed and comprehension. Emphasis on adapting to varying content and levels of difficulty and reading purposes. |
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SDV130 |
Career Exploration |
1 credit |
Provides help in choosing a career goal. Emphasis will be placed on how to access labor market information, interests, abilities and values, explore options and make decisions that will lead to career satisfaction and success.
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SDV165 |
Transfer Planning |
1 credit |
| Provides students with the information, resources and tools necessary to plan a successful transition from a community college to a four-year college or university. Special emphasis will be placed on developing individual transfer plans. |
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SDV171 |
Library Instruction |
1 credit |
| Study of classification systems, use of library resources and the compilation of bibliographies. |
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SDV172 |
Internet Research Techniques |
1 credit |
| Students will learn how information resources are organized on the internet and how to reference, search and evaluate information of particular topics. |