# College Success Studies (CSS) courses

Cuesta College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 9 courses

Source: https://cuesta.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/29980/29981/30006

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026, Fall 2026.

### CSS 99 — NON-CREDIT SUPERVISED TUTORING

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 4 hours per week: (0.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Prerequisite:** Enrollment in a Cuesta College credit course and referral by a counselor and/or instructor.
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 5 sections listed as CSS 099 (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/summer-2026/css.md); Fall 2026, 5 sections listed as CSS 099 (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/css.md)
- Non Credit
- Non-credit Course

Provides non-credit basic skills and all other content area courses supervised tutoring for students one-to-one and in small groups. Includes assessment of study skills, exam reviews and study sessions.

### CSS 125 — COLLEGE LEARNING STRATEGIES

- **Units:** 2
- **Hours:** 2 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/summer-2026/css.md); Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/css.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Presents essential study methods that promote college success. Topics include, but are not limited to, managing and maximizing learning and study time, critical thinking, levels of comprehension, understanding textbooks and other written materials, active listening and note-taking strategies, test preparation, synthesizing and reviewing course content, test taking strategies, and campus resources.

### CSS 168 — TUTOR TRAINING: SELECTED TOPICS

- **Units:** 0.5 to 1
- **Hours:** 0.5 to 1 hours per week: (0.50 - 1.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/summer-2026/css.md); Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/css.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Presents effective tutoring strategies, problem-solving techniques, and ways to build learner motivation. Explores factors that impact student learning, the tutor’s role, and academic success strategies. Trains academic tutors to work in the Student Success Center.

### CSS 225 — COLLEGE SUCCESS

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/summer-2026/css.md); Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/css.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Integrates personal growth and values, academic study strategies, and critical and creative thinking proficiency. Focuses on life management, personal and educational values, time management, maintaining health, memory and concentration, lecture note-taking, textbook studying, subject-specific studying, test taking, critical analysis, problem solving, and creative thinking. Emphasizes the attainment of life-long success in academic, professional and personal development.

### CSS 254 — MAJOR AND CAREER EXPLORATION

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** 1 hours per week: (1.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours/0.00 activity hours)
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/summer-2026/css.md); Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/css.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Assesses the student as a whole, including their values, interests, personality, skills, and strengths to help the student select a fulfilling career path, a college major appropriate to that career path, and an educational plan for achieving the student's goals.

### CSS 725 — COLLEGE LEARNING STRATEGIES

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 2 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/summer-2026/css.md); Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/css.md)
- Non Credit
- Non-Credit Gradeable Course/SP

Presents essential study methods that promote college success. Topics include, but are not limited to, managing and maximizing learning and study time, critical thinking, levels of comprehension, understanding textbooks and other written materials, active listening and note-taking strategies, test preparation, synthesizing and reviewing course content, test taking strategies and campus resources.

### CSS 754 — MAJOR AND CAREER EXPLORATION

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 1 hours per week: (1.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/summer-2026/css.md); Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/css.md)
- Non Credit
- Non-Credit Gradeable Course/SP

Assesses the student as a whole including their values, interests, personality, skills, and strengths to help the student select a fulfilling career path, a college major appropriate to that career path, and an educational plan for achieving the student's goal.

### CSS 768 — TUTOR TRAINING: SELECTED TOPICS

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 0.5 to 1 hours per week: (0.50 - 1.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/summer-2026/css.md); Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/css.md)
- Non Credit
- Non-Credit Gradeable Course/SP

Presents effective tutoring strategies, problem-solving techniques, and ways to build learner motivation. Explores factors that impact student learning, the tutor's role, and academic success strategies. Trains academic tutors to work in the Student Success Center.

### CSS 789 — INTEGRATED READING AND WRITING

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 3 to 5 hours per week: (3.00 - 5.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules
- Non Credit
- Non-Credit Gradeable Course/SP

Develops essential reading and writing skills necessary to succeed in developmental and transfer level English. Increases reading efficiency, comprehension, and vocabulary skills as well as retention of textbook information. Introduces students to the sequential development of paragraph writing beginning with sentence structure.