HDFS 102: Academic Strategies

Course Description

Stress, frustration, and difficulty surrounding academic work? Students will learn executive function strategies that can be applied directly to assignments for their current classes. These strategies will promote student success this semester and in their future academic and professional career. Discussion time will be used to complete course assignments, build social networks, and provide a quiet study space with structured accountability. This course is for students who have or suspect they have a neurodiverse brain. Credit is not given for both HDFS 199 Academic Strategies and HDFS 102. For spring course offering, open to any student. Instructor approval needed. Contact Dr. Jeanne Kramer (jjkramer@illinois.edu) for approval to register. Prerequisite: For fall course offering, restricted to students enrolled in the Illinois Neurodiversity Initiative (INI) Program.