"This course
is about teaching students to clarify what they
want and need in
an ideal career, helping them make positive declarative
statements about what they want from the world
of work and what they intend to do to make that
happen."
Required Texts:
Get Clear on Your Career by Maestas
Unlimited Options: Career Strategies
to Last a Lifetime by Maestas
2008-2009 Career Manual – Free at Career Services
Recommended Reading:
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges
of Life in Your Twenties by
Robbins & Wilner
Getting from College to Career:
90 things you should be before you
join
the real world by Lindsey Pollak
Please bring both the textbook and the workbook to every class.
How
Grades will be assigned: |
Discussion – 20%
Paper
- 20%
Workbook & Homework-
20%
Final Exam - 40% |
Major Assignment
Write a 7-page reflection paper typed, double-spaced and error free identifying
your earliest memories of work as part of what adults did. What attitudes
about work did you observe from the adults around you as a child? What
do your parents do for a living and how do they feel about their working
lives? What did they want to be when they grew up? Did they do it? Why
not? If they could do anything what would it be? Why aren’t they
doing it? How did their working interfere with what you had in mind as
a child? Identify other key career moments in your life. Include people
who have influenced you in your thoughts about work. These influences can
be either positive or negative. Include some of your own working experiences
as well as your feelings and observations about the people, responsibilities
and work environments you were in.
This
paper is designed to help draw out from your
life experiences where some of your attitudes
about work
come from and how they influence the choices you
make now and in the future. Take this assignment quite seriously as I will
consider it a major influence in grading. I want there to be evidence of
reflection, analysis and interpretation of
experiences throughout your life not simply
a stroll through your life so far. This will involve talking to your parents
about their working lives and using the material, vocabulary and concepts
covered
in lecture and class readings to describe events from a career perspective.
Information Interviews Reflection Paper
You
will conduct two information interviews with
two different individuals who work in
career fields that interest you. To prepare
for the interviews, read about the industry,
organization, and even the individual if possible.
You will be able to ask more informed questions
and can often find information online or in
the Career Resource
Room. It is best to arrange
a mutually convenient time (about 30 minutes)
to speak with each individual in person or
on the phone. Suggested questions to ask can
be found on page 15-17 of the UCSB Career Manual.
The Manual is available in the Career
Resource Room of Career Services.
With
your information, write a 2 page reflection
paper, typed and double spaced. You can write
about what you learned from the interviews
and what you think and
feel about those jobs and career fields. You can also write about how you felt
doing this assignment.
Class Schedule and Assignments
It is important
that you attend and participate in all class
sessions, as you will be tested
on the material in the assigned texts as
well as the information shared in lecture.
Discussions are not optional and roll will
be taken at each meeting. Homework
and reading assigned in the syllabus will
be due to your
TA’s the following discussion time.
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