Academic Success Center

ALS 116 is a two-credit course offered through the Academic Success Center. This class gives students the opportunity to enhance their study skills by learning about strategies for studying, managing time, taking notes, preparing for tests, memorizing, reading critically, and more.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

• Articulate concrete academic study skills that will lead to college success
• Demonstrate organizational and time management skills.
• Apply personal learning style and preferences to associated study strategies.
• Evaluate varied note-taking and reading strategies and decide on the most effective strategies for your use
• Apply knowledge of meta-cognition, memory process, and comprehension monitoring to test-preparation strategies and planning
• Identify campus resources designed to help you succeed and recognize their impact on success.
• Develop a plan for college success that includes effective goal setting, study skills, and personal health and wellness.

ALS 116 is offered each term and is open to all OSU students. Around 100 students enroll in ALS 116 each term in small sections of 20 students. Each class has students of all levels and class standings as students usually choose to enroll in the class following a term or more of academic difficulty. Many students who take the class are referred to it by an academic advisor, academic counselor, or a friend. ALS 116 fills a unique niche at OSU as students in the class openly discuss and explore the expectations and skills involved in being academically successful at the university level. Although the university sets an expectation for students to be successful in their classes, some students are unaware of how to do this, and may never have developed these habits or discussed these topics in other courses.