Academic Development - ACDV
24 courses · Bakersfield College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Fall 2026 · Spring 2027
ACDV B55 Bridge to BC: First-Year Student Success
- Units
- 0.5
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
The First Year Experience course is designed to help first-time and returning college students to prepare them academically, socially, and personally during their transition to college. This is achieved through collaborative activities with diverse students, staff, and faculty across campus departments to create a community of learning. Students will get information about campus resources and services and develop skills and learn strategies that are necessary to support learning and to reach their goals of certification, graduation, and/or transfer.
ACDV B55NC Bridge to BC: First-Year Student Success
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
The First Year Experience course is designed to help first-time and returning college students to prepare them academically, socially, and personally during their transition to college. This is achieved through collaborative activities with diverse students, staff, and faculty across campus departments to create a community of learning. Students will get information about campus resources and services and develop skills and learn strategies that are necessary to support learning and to reach their goals of certification, graduation, and/or transfer.
ACDV B70A Time Management Strategies for Academic Success
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- 0.5
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on instruction for developing effective strategies for both personal and academic time management as it relates to academic success in college. Students work on time management activities and assignments both independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing time management skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice working on a variety of time management strategies.
ACDV B70AN Time Management Strategies for Academic Success
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- 0
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on instruction for developing effective strategies for both personal and academic time management as it relates to academic success in college. Students work on time management activities and assignments both independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing time management skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice working on a variety of time management strategies.
ACDV B70B Note Taking Strategies for Academic Success
- Units
- 0.5
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on learning for developing effective strategies for note taking as it relates to academic success in college. Students work on note taking skills independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing note taking skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice working on a variety of note taking strategies.
ACDV B70BN Note Taking Strategies for Academic Success
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- 0
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on learning for developing effective strategies for note taking as it relates to academic success in college. Students work on note taking skills independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing note taking skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice working on a variety of note taking strategies.
ACDV B70C Textbook Reading Strategies for Academic Success
- Units
- 0.5
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on learning for developing effective textbook reading strategies to improve academic success in college. Students work on textbook reading strategies both independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing textbook reading skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice using a variety of effective textbook reading strategies.
ACDV B70CN Textbook Reading Strategies for Academic Success
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- 0
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on learning for developing effective textbook reading strategies to improve academic success in college. Students work on textbook reading strategies both independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing textbook reading skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice using a variety of effective textbook reading strategies.
ACDV B70D Test Taking Strategies For Academic Success
- Units
- 0.5
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on learning for developing effective test taking strategies related to academic success in college. Students work on test taking strategies both independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing test taking skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice working on a variety of test taking strategies.
ACDV B70DN Test Taking Strategies For Academic Success
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on learning for developing effective test taking strategies related to academic success in college. Students work on test taking strategies both independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing test taking skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice working on a variety of test taking strategies.
ACDV B70E Memory Strategies For Academic Success
- Units
- 0.5
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on learning for developing effective memory strategies related to academic success in college. Students work on memory techniques both independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing memory skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice working on a variety of memory strategies.
ACDV B70EN Memory Strategies For Academic Success
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on learning for developing effective memory strategies related to academic success in college. Students work on memory techniques both independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing memory skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice working on a variety of memory strategies.
ACDV B70F Vocabulary Improvement Strategies For Academic Success
- Units
- 0.5
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on learning for developing effective vocabulary improvement strategies related to academic success in college. Students work on vocabulary improvement both independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing vocabulary improvement skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice working on a variety of vocabulary improvement strategies.
ACDV B70FN Vocabulary Improvement Strategies For Academic Success
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 9 lecture hours
This course includes hands-on learning for developing effective vocabulary improvement strategies related to academic success in college. Students work on vocabulary improvement both independently and interactively in groups on guided, hands-on activities related to developing vocabulary improvement skills. There are additional outside of class computer lab hours required for students to practice working on a variety of vocabulary improvement strategies.
ACDV B81NC Supervised Tutoring
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- 0
- Hours
- 99 lab hours
Provides peer to peer tutoring in various academic subjects in a designated learning center to augment classroom instruction. Referral by subject-area instructor, counselor, or tutor trainer is required.
ACDV B82 Reading for Academic Success
- Units
- 0.5
- Hours
- 27 lab hours
This course offers individually prescribed lessons in reading fluency and comprehension, vocabulary development, study skills, critical thinking across the curriculum with tutorials and practice exercises through computer instruction with assigned tasks and assessments.
ACDV B82NC Reading for Academic Success
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- 0
- Hours
- 27 lab hours
This course offers individually prescribed lessons in reading fluency and comprehension, vocabulary development, study skills, critical thinking across the curriculum with tutorials and practice exercises through computer instruction with assigned tasks and assessments.
ACDV B83 Writing for Academic Success
- Units
- 0.5
- Hours
- 27 lab hours
This course offers individually prescribed lessons in writing, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and the writing process with tutorials and practice exercises through computer instruction with assigned tasks and assessments.
ACDV B83NC Writing for Academic Success
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- 0
- Hours
- 27 lab hours
This course offers individually prescribed lessons in writing, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and the writing process with tutorials and practice exercises through computer instruction with assigned tasks and assessments.
ACDV B84 Math Skills for Academic Success
- Units
- 0.5
- Hours
- 27 lab hours
This course offers individually prescribed lessons in multi-level math skills with tutorials and practice exercises through computer instruction with assigned tasks and assessments.
ACDV B84NC Math Skills for Academic Success
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 27 lab hours
This course offers individually prescribed lessons in multi-level math skills with tutorials and practice exercises through computer instruction with assigned tasks and assessments.
ACDV B86NC Writing Center Support
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 99 lab hours
This is an open entry/open exit writing support course with no time requirements, no grades, and this course does not effect a student’s GPA. The feedback offered by the Writing Center team is designed to give students a thoughtful, inquisitive audience to their writing that will reinforce writing as a five-stage process with the goal of fostering student learning and writing independence. Students will receive both developmental and critical thinking-related feedback as well as information about punctuation and grammar that both respects college-level expectations and all students’ individual language choices.
ACDV B95 Computer Literacy for Career and College Success
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- 18 lecture hours
This competency-based course provides instruction in basic computer skills for personal, educational, and career purposes. The student will learn how to identify parts and the functions of computers. Students will be introduced to varied topics such as the use of internet browsers, how to establish and maintain an email account, how to navigate basic word processing programs and function keys, how to use established databases and search engines to find information on the internet, and how to copy, save, print, and send documents from various courses.
ACDV B95NC Computer Literacy for Career and College Success
- Units
- 0
- Hours
- 18 lecture hours
This competency-based course provides instruction in basic computer skills for personal, educational, and career purposes. The student will learn how to identify the parts and the functions of computers. Students will be introduced to a variety of topics such as the use of internet browsers, how to establish and maintain an email account, how to navigate basic word processing programs and function keys, how to use established databases and search engines to find information on the internet, and how to copy, save, print, and send documents from various sources.