• Course: College Survival & Success
• Term/ Year: Fall 2025
• Credit Hours: 3
• Duration: September 29, 2025 to December 12, 2025
• Meeting Time(s) & Location(s): Canvas
• Description: The purpose of this course is to help the student become a more effective learner. This course will cover college terms and information, class choice, degree requirements, etc. Helps new or returning students make personal and social adjustments for college success.
• Prerequisite(s): None
• Corequisite(s): None

• Instructor: Peggy Bullock, M.Ed.
• Email: bullock@klamathcc.edu (emails and Canvas messages may take up to 48 hours for reply)
• Phone Number: 541.880.2336 (text or call)
• Office Hours & Location: Mondays and Wednesdays 12:30pm-2:30pm; Thursdays 12pm-1pm; and by appointment; Office located in Building 6, Room 6128

• Course Materials: 
  • Textbook required: COLLEGE SUCCESS Author: OPENSTAX ISBN: 9781951693183 Publisher: OPENSTAX

  • CGS 100 Textbook available from the KCC Bookstore or online here:

    College Success Textbook Online Links to an external site.
    College Success Textbook PDFLinks to an external site.

     

• Computer Requirements:
  
  • If students do not have access to a computer off-campus, there are many computers on campus (Buildings 3, 5, 6, 8, and LRC) students are welcome to use to participate fully in their courses. Most public libraries also have computers with internet access available.
  • Students will need to have an up-to-date browser and operating system. Students may need some additional software on their computers to take this class. Check the KCC Distance Education webpage for hardware & software requirements.
  • Some of the documents in this course may be available to you in PDF form. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader software on your computer, you can download it by going to http://get.adobe.com/reader/ .

• Use the concepts of accepting personal responsibility and interdependent behaviors to achieve academic and personal goals.
• Apply effective motivational strategies and goal-setting tools to academic and personal life.
• Use communication skills responsibly in order to navigate college systems.
• Use strategies regarding time, money, and self-management.
• Use college resources and policies to determine and implement academic decisions.

Grading of assignments may take one to two weeks, depending on the complexity of the assignment and the instructor's workload.  Feedback, when needed, will be posted on the assignment in the Grades link in Canvas.  Not all assignments will receive feedback so be sure to view those comments from your instructor to better understand your grade and the assignment. 

*** I do not give extra credit assignments to individual students as a way to save their poor grades.  It's imperative to complete all regular assignments throughout the term to earn points!  

Only work submitted in Canvas by the due date and time will be graded. Any work submitted late will earn a zero, and I do not accept late work emailed to me because the assignment has closed.

Please plan ahead and see what assignments are coming up and how long it may take you to complete the activity. If extenuating circumstances arise, please send me a message in Canvas or an email before the assignment is due so that we can discuss each unique circumstance. A message or an email to me does not guarantee late work will be accepted (each circumstance will be evaluated).  Only college-appropriate excuses will be taken into consideration.

Technology issues don't always guarantee late work will be accepted so come up with a backup plan if you have computer or internet connection issues. Always check your submissions in Canvas to be sure they were submitted successfully! 

My goal is to help you to be successful so notify me early to discuss issues you may have. I will be unable to offer you help if you wait until the due date for the assignment has passed.

AI Policy

As part of my ongoing commitment to promoting the development of 21st-century information literacy skills, I encourage the effective and responsible use of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Claude, and Grammarly to assist with your coursework. However, it is essential for you to understand that these tools should supplement your own intellectual work, not replace it. Consider AI an assistant, not a replacement. Approach AI as you would a human assistant or coach: use it as a sounding board for ideas, source hunting, structuring help, etc., but avoid letting it complete the assignment for you (this constitutes plagiarism). Remember that AI can't think; AI can generate and synthesize information, but it cannot create or think critically - only you can do that! Always be the human in the loop. And, remember that any verbatim copying and pasting of AI-generated output and presenting it as your original work is considered plagiarism and constitutes a violation of the KCC Academic Integrity Policy. As with all sources, any text, ideas, images, or other products that you obtain from AI must be cited. For hundreds of examples tabulated by course, discipline, and institution, visit the Syllabi Policies for Generative AI Repository, maintained by Lance Eaton.]

Students are expected to actively participate in the discussion board each week. Students are required to post an initial response to the discussion board prompt(s) no later than Wednesdays by 11:59pm of the current week’s discussion board. Then each student must respond to the initial postings of at least two classmates.

If a student fails to participate appropriately, the following actions may be taken:

1. The student will be dropped from the course,
   OR
2. If the date for dropping a course without penalty has passed, the student will receive a failing grade, unless prior arrangements have been made between the instructor and student.

A student who seeks an exception to this policy must do so in advance of the absence and/or provide documentation of the emergency that caused it, as determined by the instructor.