EDUC-X 150

Becoming the best student you can be!

Open to all students.

Learn how to excel in all your classes by:

Organizing your time, your life, and beating procrastination
Applying new study strategies that help you lower stress, boost motivation, and learn even the most complex information more deeply and efficiently
Building strong habits and mindsets for overcoming any obstacle

Contact Anthony Guest-Scott (aguestsc@iu.edu) for more information!

Course goals

This course is designed to build transferable skills in time management, studying and test-taking, comprehensive reading, taking effective notes, and critical thinking. These goals can be divided into two categories:

Hard skills & strategies

You will learn to use individually-tailored strategies for studying that can be applied to any class.

Habits of heart & mind

You will learn how to take control of your education, solve problems, and deepen your learning experience.

Course snapshot

2credits

8weeks

19max class size

I learned exactly what I thought I was going to learn when I chose to do this course, which is to be a better student. I learned my strengths and I learned my weaknesses, which guide me to notice what I need to improve in order to not just be a better student, but a better person as well.