EPSY 101 - Career Planning For College Students

Units: 2 ; Breadth Area: GE-E
For students seeking career-path exploration. State-of-the-art career and interest measurement with professionally-focused individual and small group activities designed to increase career identity, clarify values, and develop understanding of the world of work for effective decision making.

Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-E -Lifelong Learning and Self-Development
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Develop intellectual, practical, and/or physical skills and abilities that will serve them throughout their lives, such as: career exploration; values, professional characteristics and skills, interest, and learning style Identification; and career data evaluation.

2. Apply learning to other pursuits within and outside of the classroom such as: Connecting career goals with academic paths through: on-line professional tools to expand knowledge of careers; career counselor meetings; and professional document development and career interviewing.

3.Demonstrate the capacity to make informed and ethical decisions such as: applying career assessment, career exploration, and professional documentation to ethically communicate connections between job requirements, personal skills/interests, and academic attainment/experience.

E. Lifelong Learning and Self-Development Learning Outcomes

develop intellectual, practical, and/or physical skills and abilities that will serve them throughout their lives;
apply their learning to other pursuits within and outside of the classroom; and
demonstrate the capacity to make informed and ethical decisions.