Student Success Center Blog

Learnability is about improving your capacity to do well academically. The Student Success Center offers a series of sessions to do this. The entire series can be taken in sequence or you can take which one you want and skip the rest! it’s up to you! Here are the Learnability topics:

ORGANIZING STUDY TIME: How to plan for focus and attention for a project or series of assignments or for the workload of an entire course. It’s a busy world–let’s get organized!

GETTING MORE OUT OF READING: How to improve your skills for gaining and retaining the most out of text. We all have lots to read. How to get it all done more effectively.

NOTE-TAKING/ORGANIZING: Everybody’s talking at us! How can we hear it all better and make sure we have captured the most important blather? Let’s learn how. In addition, let’s learn how to organize and outline so that our notes and our understanding of what’s going on in a text or lecture is coherent.

FINDING SOURCES: the University spends six million dollars a year making information available to you for your papers, presentations, and assignments. There’s more to information finding than Google(not that there’s anything wrong with Google!). Learn how to pick the right databases and find the right sources.

WRITING THE PAPER: how do you put together a great argument, write a terrific thesis, choose an amazing topic, integrate information from sources into an effective, appealing, and coherent paper? This session will tell you how…and HOW!

WILD CARD LEARNABILITY SESSION! What do YOU need to know to improve your academic success? Let us know and we’ll deliver!

Learnability Sessions are ON DEMAND!!! Yup! When do you need it? Let us know and we’ll schedule what works for you! Send an email to: gohere@hawaii.edu or call: 956.8308.