Introduces strategies and skills to enhance academic success and personal growth for lifelong learning. Includes gaining self-awareness of personal responsibility, motivation, learning style preferences, career and life planning, goal setting, communication, stress reduction and the development of a self-management system. Integrates self-awareness through learning specific study strategies, including note taking, test taking, and research. Emphasizes critical thinking skills and engagement with resources on campus and in the community. Transfer credit: CSU; UC. Notes: Instruction designed to meet the educational needs of students with or without disabilities.

The course provides exploration of physiological bases of behavior. Topics include: neural impulses and sensory processes, neural basis of reinforcement, electrical stimulation of the brain, memory, learning, emotion, biofeedback, split-brain studies, and research on right and left hemispheres. Emphasis is on current research findings as well as ethical standards and implications. Field trips may be required. Prerequisites: PSYC C1000 or PSYC C1000H. Transfer credit: CSU;UC.