PLEASE NOTE: This syllabus is subject to change by the instructor.
"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
Cooper, Maestas & Snyder
The Complete Job Search Handbook by
Howard Figler, PhD
Unlimited Options Reader – purchased
in class 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 might come from and how they might
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.
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 13-15 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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