Growth and Development
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概要
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The Personal Growth course offered as an advanced content-based elective in the KSC academic English program is designed to encourage Policy students to set current and long-range goals and work on honing the personal skills necessary to achieve them. Successful policy outcomes require planning as well as analysis, and the task of planning a successful life gives students a project to work with that is particularly close to home. Participants in the course first undertake an extensive investigation of other people's successful lives to analyze the factors that contributed to their high level of achievement. They critically compare their results from real-life studies to the research findings of academic psychologists and the popular keys to success propagated by current best-selling self-help gurus. Research skills are developed through a four-step process that integrates three shorter papers into a substantial report on an extensive research project by the end of the semester as students' understanding of the research process and critical analysis grows. The last third of the course is devoted to interpersonal skills including conflict resolution and problem solving as students explore concepts of social responsibility and cooperative achievement. Students culminate their experience with a concrete plan for their own futures.
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