Designed to assist students making career choices. Focuses on self-assessment in terms of educational and career opportunities and reasonable possibilities in the world or work. Includes assessment for personal/career interests, values, needs, attitudes, skills, and other potential, and exploration of occupational information to establish career and educational goals.

Prerequisites: None.

Reviews the sources of stress, the physiological effects and the psychological impact of stress on the individual. Provides strategies to reduce stress.

Prerequisites: None.

Designed to help students change behaviors that work against their potential, i.e., inferior feelings, shyness, nervousness, stage fright, under achievement, etc. Focuses on identifying undesirable thoughts, emotions, and behaviors for the purpose of developing alternative, and more desirable thoughts, emotions and behaviors.

Prerequisites: None.

Focuses on increasing student success through college orientation and personal growth, study skills development, and educational and career planning.

Prerequisites: None.

Emphasis on increasing student success through the use of study strategies including material organization, note-taking, reading, test-taking, memory, and critical and creative thinking.

Prerequisites: None

Designed to help students, differentiate assertive, non-assertive, and aggressive behavior,. Also, overcome blocks to acting assertively, establish boundaries, and develop effective verbal and non-verbal assertive behavior. Group discussion, role playing, and videotaping feedback is used to enable students to express feelings, beliefs, and opinions in a direct appropriate manner.

Prerequisites: None.

Practice in specific methods for building and keeping self-esteem. Personal assessment of attitudes, values, support systems, and goals.

Prerequisites: None

Designed to provide strategies that may be used when assuming leadership roles. Focuses on improving supervisory confidence through the development of appropriate competitive behaviors, problem solving skills, and techniques of leadership.

Prerequisites: None

* Check the current semester’s PVCC Schedule to find the days and times each of these classes are offered.