The Learning Centres has designed the following workshops for you as part of a week's worth of free activities offered to ALL first-year students registered in classes in any program! Please take this opportunity and join our workshops to accelerate your learning.
Click on the link(s) below to register for the Welcome Week Workshop(s) of your choice:
(Some KPU instructors offer bonus credit if you attend a Learning Centre workshop. If your instructor has confirmed this, you can provide their name and the course info in the form. If you attend the workshop, we will email your instructor letting them know you participated.)
Tuesday - January 7, 2025
Online: 12:00-1:00 PM - Your First 13 weeks
Your first semester will be filled with new experiences and learning opportunities, and you should aim to do the best that you can throughout the semester. In this workshop you will learn skills, resources, and information that you should be familiar with at every point during the semester.
Thursday - January 9, 2025
Online: 12:00-1:00 PM - Time Management Stragtegies
In this workshop, you will identify ways to improve their time management skills by identifying your current time wasters and how much time is currently spent working on activities that will help you achieve important goals. You will also draft a tentative personal time schedule that fits your purpose.
Friday - January 10, 2025
Online: 12:00-1:00 PM - Reading Texts and Taking Notes
This workshop will help you learn from your textbooks and university lectures by introducing a variety of effective pre-lecture reading strategies along with in class note-taking and post-class techniques. The session will include organizing your reading strategy to make sense of all this new information so that you can be successful in your courses. You will learn how to listen for key points and summarize main ideas, preparing more meaningful and effective study notes.