Learning
Skills
Learning Skills Services
Learning Skills Services can help you develop the most effective study strategies for the courses you're taking, based on your personal learning style preferences. In other words, they help you "study smarter."
Study skills involve such elements as managing your time, organizing your study, learning from textbooks, and taking tests successfully. You choose the format best for you:
Individual (personal help by appointment or on a walk-in basis)
Group (workshops focusing on particular skill topics)
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Personal
Assistance
You would benefit most
from individual assistance if:
- You're not sure where to start.
- You feel overwhelmed by everything you need to do.
- You'd like to find out what your personal learning style
is and how to use it to your advantage.
- You don't have time for everything, or don't know where
to start
- You get nervous before, after or during exams.
- You have trouble with a particular discipline, type of
assignment, or type of test.
- You expected a higher grade on the exam.
- You need strategies for especially demanding courses.
- Your courses are specialized or upper division.
- Your schedule conflicts with a workshop you'd like to
attend (see below).
- You need help sooner than / later than the scheduled
workshop.
To make
an appointment, please call 562-985-5350 or visit the LAC in the Horn Center room 104.
Appointments are available throughout the day Monday through Thursday,
including Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and Friday mornings, or you can come in without an appointment by attending one of
our workshops .
Supplemental Learning
Materials
Are you someone who likes
to take your time working on something, or do you like extra practice
to be sure you really know it? We have a collection of resources
that can help you master a study skill or a course-related skill
(like understanding statistics, anatomy, or tectonic plates), or
prepare for the LSAT or MCAT. Visit the LAC, or ask a Learning Skills
Specialist or your tutor to recommend what would help you best.
Sessions for Special
Needs
Learning Skills Specialists
develop and present workshops upon the request of faculty, student
organizations, or other groups. In these sessions, content is tailored
to the task (reading a particular text effectively) or goal (preparing
for the MCAT) indicated by the requestor. Every semester several
workshops are presented on applied study skills and on special topics
developed for a specialized need.
To inquire about a special workshop, contact the LAC
Director at 562-985-8634, visit the LAC,
or send an email to centers-lac@csulb.edu
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