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This Course includes 4 Sections, and 12 lessons

Price: $35

Section 1: Being on Your Own

The lessons include:

Lesson 1: Feeling Scared and Alone

You are a brave person. You have left the security of family and friends and a familiar environment to go to college. While it’s easier for some than it is for others, leaving home to go to school requires a lot of courage…

Lesson 2: Handling your new Freedom

Very likely, this college experience may be your first time to be truly on your own. It can be a fantastic experience for you—a time to call your own shots and to be your own person. However, like all new experiences…

Lesson 3: Achieving Academic Success

Staying in school–and doing well at it–are going to require that you pay attention to a few things. Important things like attending class and studying, managing your time well, and handling your money…

Section 2: Dealing with Other People

The lessons include:

Lesson 4: Developing Tolerance and an Appreciation for Diversity

A college campus is a “big tent.” There are people from many different racial, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds who are attending your school. This situation…

Lesson 5: Connecting with Others

Every human being has a need to feel loved and to feel like we belong. We tend to bail out of situations where we don’t think people care about us. In fact, one study shows that, if you find five people with…

Lesson 6: Being Around Difficult People

Depending on our mood and the circumstances, all of us can be “difficult” to be around at times. Usually our moods are short-lived, and the same is true of those around us. So, we forgive each other’s occasional “fits” and move on…

Section 3: Making the Tough Decisions

The lessons include:

Lesson 7: Regarding Sex…

Sex has become such an open topic that you may be asking the question, “What more is there to say?” Well, we’re not going to go into the stuff that you can get in your anatomy and human sexuality classes. What might be helpful though…

Lesson 8: Concerning Alcohol and Other Drugs

You’re probably saying to yourself, “Good grief, another drug lecture?” Well, maybe a little bit. But really it’s more of a gut check regarding your self-esteem because, just like with sex, the way in which you use alcohol and other drugs…

Lesson 9: Deciding What You Want To Be

Most likely, when you were young, adults asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up. Now that you’re in college, you should pretty well know, right? Well, if you’re like most first-year students, the answer is probably no…

Section 4: Running to Your Strengths

The lessons include:

Lesson 10: Stretching Your Boundaries

You can feel really good about yourself. You are smart enough to pass the entrance requirements and enter college. You’re handling the responsibility of making decisions for yourself.  You are part of one of the most compassionate…

Lesson 11: Making a Difference

Here you are in college. You’re intelligent. You’ve got ambition. And most of all, you would like to make a difference in this world, wouldn’t you? You want to leave this world a better place as a result of your having lived in it. How can you…

Lesson 12: Celebrating Your Uniqueness

It is important that you realize how special you are. You are a unique creation. The universe has never seen anything (or anyone) just like you and never will again. While you make mistakes and are imperfect…