Workshops Available To Students (free for full time students)
Workshops sponsored by the Counseling and Career Center (call 378-2689 for times
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Communication: If you have a personal desire to lean and use practical communication skills in
order to increase understanding and quality in your relationships, this workshop is for you. They
will discuss the distinct roles of listeners and speakers and focus on interpersonal communication.
Financial Management: Come learn and practice the fundamentals of budgeting, debt
management, and money matters that can affect college students.
Graduate School Exploration: Considering Grad School? Come to this workshop to learn what
is involved and what resources are available to help you make an informed decision about
graduate school.
Listening and Note Taking: This workshop presents several effective listening habits as well as
techniques and systems for streamlined note taking.
Memory: Don’t forget this workshop! Come learn techniques designed to help you remember
more and improve your memory storage and recall.
Overcoming Procrastination: An estimated 90% of college students procrastinate—are you one
of them? This workshop can help you combat this destructive habit!
Stress Management: Learn to identify and mange your own stress though relaxation and stress
management techniques.
Test Taking: Low test scores getting you down? This workshop presents skills which can help
you take tests more effectively.
Time Management: Gain control of your life by controlling your time! Learn how balance
affects this process.
Textbook Comprehension: Learn this simple, yet effective, SQ3R reading method as well as
different marking techniques that will help you study smarter, not harder! Please bring a textbook
to the workshop.
Women and Careers: Learn about issues facing women regarding educational, career, and life
decisions.
Interviewing Skills: Come learn the do’s and don’ts of a good employment interview.
Resume and Letter Writing: Learn about the structure, mechanics, content and distribution of
an effective resume. Discusses letters of inquiry, application, follow-up, delay, acceptance, and
decline.
Internships: Learn about internship opportunities, how to make the right contacts, and the
resources that are available to assist you in your search for the perfect internship.
eRecruiting: Want an interview with the top visiting recruiters on campus? Then come learn
how to utilize the on-line registration system!
Pre-law worskshops
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Personal Statements/Letters of Recommendation: Come learn how to design these
documents to make a
lasting impression on the law school of your choice! Each person will
begin a first draft of a personal
statement.
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LSAT Preparation: LSAT looming near in your future? The pre-law advisor will
present a study plan that has proven very effective time and again.
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Creating a Great Application: Do you want to prepare the best application you can?
Come learn useful
tips and great ideas that will make for a great application!
Services offered to students (free for full-time students)
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Writing Center: If you want help with a paper use this service in 1010 JKHB, Morris
Center/Cannon Center, and the Heritage Central Building. They will help with the following:
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Writing Process: Prewriting, Organizing, Writing, Revising.
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Pre-professional writing: Letters of Application, Graduate and Admission Essays.
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Computer Skills: Word processing, Document design, Resumes, Internet research.
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Various types of writing: Analysis paper, Research papers, Creative writing.
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Documentation: APA, MLA, Turabian.
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The Reading Center: Provides instructional support in critical thinking, textual
comprehension and analysis, argument evaluation, idea organization, stylistic awareness, research
strategies, speed-reading, writing skills, grammar and usage. The instructional support by the
following ways:
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Daily fifty-minute classes on topics ranging from general reading strategies to specific
help with composition courses.
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One-on-one tutorials in the Center with trained peer-tutors.
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Handouts on all kinds of reading, thinking, and writing strategies.
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Tutoring Services: tutoring service offered by volunteers who are qualified to assist students
in almost any subject on campus.
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The Counseling and Career: students can receive information and help in the following
areas:
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Academic Support: Students can receive help in maintaining BYU’s academic
standards.
Services help students:
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Avoid academic trouble.
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Recover from academic problems.
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Improve time management.
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Raise CPA.
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Career and Learning Information: Students receive individual or group assistance in
exploration and
decision-making in relation to major and career issues. They offer
workshops which include some of the
following topics:
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Stress management.
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Test preparation and test taking.
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Listening and note taking.
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Overcoming procrastination.
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Textbook comprehension.
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Career Placement Services: Provides students and alumni with information about
hundreds of opportunities for employment in business, industry, education, and
government. Resources include:
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Thousands of job openings listed each year.
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Directories containing employers’ addresses and info.
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Campus interviewing by recruiters for alumni and prospective graduates.
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Employment workshops.
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Letter writing.
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Resume writing.
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Interviewing.
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Counseling: Counseling services are oriented toward short-term interventions designed
to help students develop self-reliance and to succeed in their role as students. Counseling
is also provided for more serious problems that are associated with acute or long-standing
psychological/emotional concerns. Professionals provide counseling in areas including,
but not limited to:
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Eating disorders.
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Depression/Anxiety
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Pre-marital/Marital relationships.
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Interpersonal challenges.
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Sexual assault or abuse issues.
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Career and life planning.
Open Major Advisement: Serves students who have not yet decided on an academic
major, and students whose interests or abilities don’t match the major they have already
chosen.
Pre-Law Advisement Services: Students who are considering pursuing a legal education
receive advisement in academic choices, graduate examination preparation, opportunities
in law, internships, volunteer opportunities, and debt and career management skills.
Student Development Classes: Classes are offered for students who wish to augment
their academic skills. Available student development classes include:
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Effective Study and Learning.
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Life Planning and Decision Making.
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Career Exploration.
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Individual Development.
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Pre-Law Seminar
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Special Topics.
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Career Transitions.
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Student Leadership Development.
The Stress Management & Biofeedback Lab: Biofeedback instruments are used to
pick up signals from your body and feed them back to you so you can be aware of what
your body is experiencing. Biofeedback training involves using the information from
these instruments to change certain conditions in your body. This training is effective in
helping reduce such stress-related symptoms as headaches, nervousness, muscular pain,
and insomnia.
Students with Disabilities: to accommodate (serve) students who have physical,
learning, emotional, or chronic health disabilities. Students can receive diagnostic testing
for learning disabilities and ADD. Accommodations are modifications or adjustments to
the academic program that enable students with disabilities to enjoy the same
opportunities to excel and attain similar benefits and privileges as any other students.
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Some signs of learning disabilities:
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Poor, illegible or nearly illegible handwriting.
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Letter and number reversals.
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Interrupting.
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Inability to follow a string of instructions.
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Tangential thinking, making comments unrelated to the conversation.
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Ability to verbally explain something, but inability to put it on paper
(or vice versa).
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Ability to explain something one minute but “forgetting” the next.
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Cannot complete test/exams within the prescribed time limit even
though the student knows the information.
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Academic accommodations may include some of the following:
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Extended time for exams.
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Distraction-free room for exams.
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Alternative modes of evaluation.
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Staggered exams and/or exam breaks.
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Non-scantron exams.
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Computer-assisted or oral exams.
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Books on tape.
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Priority registration.
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Reduced course load.
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Course substitution.
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In-class note takes.
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Audiotape lectures.
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Computer assistance for class assignments.
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Copies of class overheads and outlines.
Comprehensive Clinic Available to Students (Cost is a one-time
fee of $15 per person or $30 per couple. Fees can be waived or
decreased for financial need.)
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Pre-marital Group- This is for engaged or seriously dating couples. Topics discussed may
include: communication, finances, traditions, gender roles, values, intimacy, family of origin
issues, marital expectations, problem-solving and conflict resolution, and marital enhancement
ideas.
Couples Communication/Marriage Enhancement Group- This group reviews many
of the above topics and focuses on ways to improve communications and deepen the marital
relationship.
Process Group- This group is for those feeling sad, depressed or blue. It is also for those
having trouble making friends, feeling anxious, or overwhelmed. This is a support group.
Divorce Adjustment Group- This group is for recently divorced adults who want support in
adjusting to the changes that occur with a divorce.
Parenting Group- “Parent-Child Relations: A Thousand Small Moments of Interactions,”
meaning that it is the many small moments with children that make up the parent/child
relationship. This group covers topics such as connecting with your child, understanding yourself
and your child, giving praise and attention, using rewards and celebrations, setting limits, using
consequences and time outs, handling difficult children, setting family rules, and teaching values
to children. As parent/child interactions become more positive and parents learn how to set and
enforce limits, less time and effort is spent on discipline. The group currently is tailored for
parents who have children 11 years old and under.